Sr Design Program Manager, Agentic Experience

We are looking for a Senior Design Program Manager to join Adobe Design in support of one of the most consequential bets the company is making. You will be embedded in a horizontal agentic experience team working across Adobe with a dotted line to the Director of Product Design for Agentic helping translate complex cross-platform design work into programs that can actually move.

This team is building the foundations for how AI assistants and agentic systems come together across Adobes product portfolio. It has launched. Now it needs operational infrastructure to scale. You will build it.

Agentic Experience Operations

• Build and own the operational infrastructure for a horizontal agentic experience team including rituals documentation standards intake processes and cross-team coordination frameworks

• Manage cross-platform programs spanning multiple Adobe product teams tracking dependencies surfacing blockers and keeping work moving across organizational boundaries

• Create visibility into the teams work for design product and engineering leadership across Adobe establishing reporting cadences and communication structures that dont yet exist

• Partner with the Director of Product Design and design leads to translate ambiguous early-stage agentic work into structured programs with clear owners milestones and success criteria

• Identify and close coordination gaps between platform teams ensuring agentic experience work is sequenced and integrated effectively across Adobes product ecosystem

• Apply AI tooling to program management workflows to improve how the team tracks reports and communicates its work

Portfolio Operations

• Support portfolio-level rituals and reviews across a multi-team design organization including scheduling facilitation documentation and follow-through

• Maintain systems for tracking and reporting on design work at the portfolio level including project status priorities and key decisions

• Keep cross-platform design decisions documented and communicated consistently across teams

• Coordinate between design product engineering and research to ensure the right people have the right information at the right time

• 5 years of experience in design operations or program management within a design and technology environment

• Experience standing up operational processes in a team or org that had none you are comfortable building before there is a clear path

• Proven ability to manage programs that span multiple teams platforms or systems with no single owner and competing priorities

• Working understanding of AI and agentic systems enough to navigate technical conversations ask the right questions and make design work legible to non-design stakeholders

• Strong instincts for creating just enough structure to move work forward without over-engineering or slowing teams down

• Demonstrated ability to work horizontally across a large organization earning trust and building alignment with teams that operate independently

• Clear concise written and verbal communication skills with the ability to make complex multi-threaded work legible to senior leadership

• Comfort operating in environments where the product the team and the process are all evolving at the same time

• Familiarity with AI tools and genuine curiosity about applying them to design or program management workflows

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

Adobe Design is the multidisciplinary global organization behind Adobe experiences. Our full-stack team includes design researchers design engineers experience designers brand designers content strategists and program managers dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences for Adobe users.

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