Principal Product Manager, API Platform

Our Company Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours! The opportunity We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to own the platform vision and strategy for Firefly Services, an enterprise API offering that enables customers to automate creative workflows with same underlying services powering Adobe Firefly, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Express, Adobe Premiere, and more - including digital imaging, video, and audio modalities. As Principal Product Manager for the API platform, you will define the product vision, strategy, and requirements for a holistic API offering that breaks down organizational silos. You will work cross-functionally with product and engineering leaders across Adobe to lead initiatives to 1) optimize our solution for cross-API workflows, including calling APIs in bulk, 2) scale for cross-API feature development for common workflows, including access to common storage, (3) create a scalable approach to releasing new APIs, and (4) driving API signature and taxonomy alignment. Your deep understanding of enterprise API platforms and deep empathy for developers will help drive internal alignment and ensure a delightful and cohesive customer facing developer experience. What you’ll do Set the short and long term API Platform strategy - define the vision, build roadmap, partner with and secure commitments from partner and dependent teams (including DevEx and GTM), and define and own objectives and key results. Identify and address fragmentation across APIs built by different teams, including API signatures and workflows, ensuring a cohesive and unified API offering. Lead efforts to optimize cross-API workflows, including enabling bulk API calls. Drive initiatives to scale cross-API feature development for common workflows, including importing from/export to 3rd party DAMs. Develop platform requirements to implement new business models, including freemium- and credit-based models, API-based limits, and individual- and org-based entitlements. Develop operational plans for prioritization (including resources and recruiting), group priorities, and dependency mapping. Represent the business with customers, partners, executives and at industry events and communicate written and verbal updates on the roadmap and key initiatives. Keep abreast of the evolving market landscape for Generative AI and API-first businesses more broadly, eg Stripe. What you’ll need to succeed Validated technical leadership and experience in identifying and solving broad and sophisticated technical issues for customers. 8 years in platform product management in an API-first and/or developer-centric business. Proven experience with platform architectures and client/service experiences. A passion for working with developers, learning about new technologies, and evangelizing exciting developer tools. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Experience working directly with tiered customer levels is a plus. A GM attitude, with the ability to context switch across products, projects, and customers and own the outcome. 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 $146,800 -- $262,100 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. Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more. Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call (408) 536-3015. Adobe values a free and open marketplace for all employees and has policies in place to ensure that we do not enter into illegal agreements with other companies to not recruit or hire each other’s employees. 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. There's more than meets the eye when it comes to Adobe. Take the quiz and see how well you know us! Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more. Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call (408) 536-3015. Adobe values a free and open marketplace for all employees and has policies in place to ensure that we do not enter into illegal agreements with other companies to not recruit or hire each other’s employees.