Principal Product Manager, Growth

Adobe

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Jose, CA
Salary
$148,100–$282,100 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
20 days ago
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This role pays more than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$246,012 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $215k versus about $212k for comparable roles.

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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

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager, Growth

Pro Design Principal Product Manager, Growth will join the team building the growth engine for professional design tools and emerging creative products. This newly created role focuses on acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization from private beta through general availability. You will build a growth measurement and experimentation foundation by partnering with data science to instrument funnels, define metrics, and execute A/B testing. The role involves developing monetization strategies, including usage-based or credit-based models, while leveraging existing research on audience segmentation and competitive studies. You will collaborate across engineering, design, and marketing teams to deliver high-impact growth experiments. Success requires expertise in freemium or subscription products, analytical proficiency, and a deep understanding of the professional design-tools landscape. The role addresses the challenge of scaling creative software while ensuring product differentiation within a complex ecosystem of adjacent tools.

What does a Product Manager earn in California?

Median $222000 from 280 postings across 53 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the end-to-end growth strategy for acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization from beta to general availability.
  • Build the growth measurement foundation by partnering with data science to instrument funnels and define key metrics.
  • Establish a structured experimentation practice to run A/B tests and analyze results to drive product decisions.
  • Develop and execute monetization strategies in partnership with the product marketing team.
  • Execute growth experiments ranging from high-impact "big bets" to quick wins that remove user friction.
  • Utilize existing research and commission new studies to ground growth prioritization in audience segmentation and competitive analysis.
  • Coordinate with engineering, design, and marketing teams to ship clean growth features across the product portfolio.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of experience in product management with a growth focus.
  • Experience owning acquisition, activation, or monetization for freemium or subscription products.
  • Proven track record of running structured growth experiments and funnel analysis to drive product decisions.
  • Strong analytical skills to partner with data science teams to define metrics and build measurement systems.
  • Experience with monetization, pricing, or packaging strategy, including usage-based or credit-based models.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across engineering, design, and marketing teams.
  • Familiarity with the professional design-tools competitive landscape (preferred).
  • Experience monetizing generative AI features, taking products from beta to launch, or working in a large creative-software ecosystem (preferred).

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