Principal Engineering Program Manager -GenAI

Adobe

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San Jose, US Posted 73 days ago $191,600–$277,400 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Senior Technical Program Manager within Adobe’s Document Cloud Generative AI Initiative, you will lead the development and execution of large-scale AI programs from inception to delivery, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs. Your role involves fostering collaboration among cross-functional teams, managing complex dependencies, and driving feature creation through iterative cycles of hypothesis validation and fine-tuning. You will leverage your deep understanding of Generative AI technologies such as LLMs, embeddings, and RAG to identify early market fit and optimize performance. Additionally, you must excel in communication across technical and non-technical audiences, mentor junior PGMs, and maintain a strong focus on DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines for reliable AI systems. This role demands an experienced leader who can thrive in dynamic environments and deliver impactful solutions to Adobe’s growing Generative AI business.

Skills

LLMs DevOps MLOps CI/CD Terraform Docker Kubernetes Python PostgreSQL Prometheus Grafana Git Jenkins Ansible

What you'll do

  • Develop and implement plans for large-scale AI programs through the full lifecycle.
  • Ensure comprehensive technical understanding of solution dependencies and impacts.
  • Identify early market fit strategies for new features.
  • Resolve issues rapidly to keep contributing teams unblocked.
  • Define and drive processes for cross-team coordination and issue resolution.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of Technical Program Management experience with leadership and mentoring skills.
  • Deep understanding of Generative AI core technologies including LLMs, embeddings, prompt orchestration, RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation frameworks, and inference infrastructure.
  • Proven success in leading GenAI feature creation from concept to implementation while managing multiple concurrent workstreams.
  • Strong knowledge of DevOps and MLOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and service reliability for AI systems.
  • Excellent influencing, communication, and collaboration skills with the ability to guide senior PGMs and partner effectively with Product leadership.

Market check

Salary context

This $191,600–$277,400 range sits above 72% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$148,130–$257,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$165,000–$240,800

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 238 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Adobe

Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software

Adobe currently has 290 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $183,300–$265,350 across 290 roles with salary data.

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