Principal Product Manager

Adobe Software

Adobe Software

Product
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 145,100-273,200 / year + Equity
Posted on Jun 17, 2025

JOB LEVEL

P50

EMPLOYEE ROLE

Individual Contributor

The Opportunity

In the SDC (Search, Discovery, and Content AI) Organization at Adobe, our goal is to empower our customers’ digital journeys with semantic search, visual search, browse, recommendations and providing conversational search. We use machine learning and AI in information retrieval, encompassing query and content understanding, as well as ranking and scoring of creative assets. This includes personal content such as photos and videos, team and enterprise assets, and marketplace assets. Our expansion into Neural Agents combines the power of diffusion models, large language models, and Adobe’s domain expertise to bolster our AI ecosystem.

How can you participate? Help define and build our next-generation search & generation technologies and experiences! Sounds interesting? We are looking for a product manager to own platform requirements that requires applying AI/ML technologies across various areas. This includes deep neural search, conversational search, Retrieval Augment Generation, and Neural Agents. Our focus is to help customers find, browse and discover the content and assets that enable them to achieve their creative and document goals. This is a chance to create a huge impact in a fast-paced environment across a wide range of products and customers in a great company.

What you'll Do

The Principal Product Manager for Adobe’s Search & Discovery vision is responsible for the planning and execution throughout the lifecycle of product and features development, including:

  • Drive the Product vision for next-generation capabilities that brings search, recommendation and generation experiences together..
  • Partner with global product, Design and engineering teams to establish requirements, plan and prioritize work.
  • Work closely with research, data science teams passionate about Search & Discovery AI, crafting AI capabilities for next gen search & generation use case
  • Drive alignment and communication with partners with growing and conflicting demands.
  • Develop and drive the strategy for defining success criteria, including critical metrics that measure customer success and business impact.

What you need to succeed

  • 5+ years of product management experience working with search engine technologies, recommendations and/or conversational search
  • Solid grasp of search, recommendation, and GenAI systems—including IR principles, recommender algorithms, LLMs, embeddings, and A/B testing frameworks.
  • Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills as you'll be interacting across product and engineering leaders at various levels
  • Ability to lead in an environment of ambiguity with diverse partners and independently drive initiatives end-to-end
  • Articulate and persuasive while able to listen and incorporate the perspectives of others
  • Strong analytical, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills to be able to coordinate complicated projects
  • Knowledge of ethical AI considerations (bias, fairness) and a learning approach to adapt to fast-evolving AI technologies

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $145,100 -- $273,200 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

State-Specific Notices:

California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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Internal Opportunities

Creativity, curiosity, and constant learning are celebrated aspects of your career growth journey. We’re glad that you’re pursuing a new opportunity at Adobe!

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At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely. If you’re looking to make an impact, Adobe's the place for you. Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the meaningful benefits we offer.

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