Principal Product Manager, Media Generation Experience

Adobe

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CASan Jose, CA
Salary
$148,100–$282,100 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
15 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $215k
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This role pays more than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$232,375 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $215k versus about $205k for comparable roles.

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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 245 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager, Media Generation Experience

As a Principal Product Manager, Media Generation Experience, you will join the team to build a unified, reusable generation experience as a platform for Firefly surfaces. You will own requirements, architecture-level tradeoffs, and rollout plans for shared prompting and generation experiences that remain fast and light across various model types and workflows. The role involves partnering deeply with design teams to balance simple controls with deep functionality while ensuring new capabilities are integrated immediately into the product ecosystem. You must possess strong product management experience in shipping platform-level components, exceptional design instincts, and sufficient technical depth to engage on architecture tradeoffs. This position focuses on solving the challenge of creating a consistent interaction pattern for generative AI tools as they become more agentic and editing and generation features begin to converge across multiple user surfaces.

What does a Product Manager earn in California?

Median $221750 from 204 postings across 45 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build and manage a shared generation experience platform for use across all Firefly surfaces.
  • Define requirements, architecture tradeoffs, and rollout plans for unified prompting and generation experiences.
  • Partner with engineering to establish technical contracts for service integration and performance optimization.
  • Collaborate with design teams to balance simple user controls with deep functionality for advanced users.
  • Scale the experience across various model types, workflows, and emerging agentic capabilities.
  • Identify new use cases and determine appropriate surfaces for upcoming features from research and competitors.
  • Deliver launch experiences that put new capabilities in front of creators immediately upon release.
  • Define and create new interaction patterns rather than just maintaining existing ones.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in product management with a track record of shipping platform-level or shared-component experiences adopted by multiple teams.
  • Strong design instincts and fluency in partnering with designers to shape user experience.
  • Technical depth sufficient to engage credibly on architecture tradeoffs.
  • Ability to define new interaction patterns rather than just maintaining existing ones.
  • Ability to balance core universal features with configurable options for different surfaces.
  • Capability to manage requirements, architecture-level tradeoffs, and rollout plans for shared experiences.

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