Sr. Manager, Strategic PMO

Adobe Inc.

Seattle, WA

JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time, Employee
SKILLS
Alliance/Partner Management, Alliance/Partner Marketing, Business Case, Business Skills, Cadence, Communication Skills, Consulting, Contract Requirements, Expense Reports, Expense Tracking, Finance, Follow Through, Forecasting, Investment Strategy, Leadership, Legal, Legal Support Skills, Maintain Compliance, Marketing, Negotiation Skills, Onboarding, Partner Sales, Performance Metrics, Pre-Sales, Product Engineering, Project Tracking, Project/Program Management, Quality Management, Reporting Dashboards, Risk, Risk Management, Service Delivery, Service Level Agreement (SLA), Statement of Work (SOW), Technical Leadership
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
30+ days ago


Role Summary


We are seeking a PMO lead to oversee a complex, multi

year,


multi

workstream


strategic partnership involving


co-

innovation

, solution development, services delivery, product integration, and coordinated

GTM


activation.




This role serves as the central program leader responsible for ensuring operational rigor, workstream discipline,


cross

functional


synchronization, structured governance, and predictable execution across all partnership activities. The PMO Lead ensures that all workstream sponsors follow through on their commitments, business cases, and delivery milestones while also coordinating closely with internal functions such as legal, sourcing, finance, product, engineering, partner marketing, and field teams.




This is a


high

visibility


role that requires exceptional program leadership, strong commercial acumen, and experience orchestrating complex


cross

functional


initiatives in fast


moving environments.




Key Responsibilities



1. Governance & Operating Cadence


  • Own andoperatetheend-to-endgovernance model across all participating organizations.
  • Establish and run structured partnership cadences, including monthly, quarterly, andexecutive levelreviews.
  • Manageissueand risk escalation processes across workstream, program, and executive levels.
  • Maintain clear and consistent communication loops between workstream owners, alliancemanagement, executive sponsors, and technical leadership.
  • Establish andmaintaina structured PMO operating model alignedtomulti-year strategic investments.



2. Workstream Oversight


  • Oversee execution quality and pacing across all defined workstreams, which may include areas such as presales support, value realization, consulting delivery, product integration, GTM enablement, and innovation programs.
  • Ensure each workstream maintains clear deliverables, KPIs, milestones, risks, business case assumptions, and success measurements.
  • Track progress across all workstreams through standardized dashboards, status reviews, and structured accountability mechanisms.



3. SOW Development, Contracting & Compliance


  • Lead the orchestration of Statements of Work (SOWs) across all workstreams.
  • Coordinate with internal legal, sourcing, finance, and relevant workstream sponsors to ensuretimelydrafting, review, negotiation, and execution of all SOWs.
  • Maintain a comprehensive view of all contractual obligations, delivery timelines, dependencies, andcross functionalrequirements.
  • Monitor SLA compliance forapprovals,and onboarding.



4. Product & Engineering Integration Program Management


  • Partner closely with product and engineering teams to ensure that roadmap integration commitments are clearly defined, resourced, and progressing as planned.
  • Trackendtoenddelivery of technical integration milestones.
  • Ensure alignment between engineering delivery, workstream interdependencies, and GTM timelines.



5. GTM, Partner Marketing & Field Alignment


  • Drive coordinatedGTMexecution across partner marketing, sales, and alliance leadership.
  • Ensure the creation of messaging, positioning,enablementassets, solution packaging, andfield readymaterials.
  • Supportdemand generationinitiatives, joint marketing motions, and field activation programs.
  • Partner with the partner management team to trackadoptionmetrics, pipeline influence, andrevenue alignedoutcomes associated with the joint solutions.



6

. Investment Oversight

/Management


  • Maintain comprehensive oversight of the company's multiyearstrategic commitmentwith the external partner under the governingcommercialagreement.
  • Track all spending across workstreams, ensuring alignment toagreed uponannual and total targetsset forth inthe partnership framework.
  • Reconcile allEligible Fees,monitorburn rate, andvalidatequarterly spend reports received from the partner, includingidentifyingdiscrepancies and driving resolution through the governance process.
  • Ensurespend progress is accurately reflected against each workstream's commitments, success measures, and performance expectations.
  • Maintainrealtimevisibility into pacing, forecasts, risks, and remaining balance toward the overall spend commitment,providingstructured insights to senior leadership.
  • Coordinate closely with workstream sponsors, sourcing, legal, finance, and partner management teams to ensure all spending is properly attributed, contractually compliant, and aligned to strategic outcomes.
  • Support governance reviews by preparingexecutive readysummaries of investment performance, pacing, risks, and mitigation plans.



7

. Executive Reporting & Insights


  • Createexecutive readyreports summarizing progress across workstreams, technical integrations, GTM activities, risks, and program health.


About the Company

A

Adobe Inc.

Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Our tools and services enable our customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time, and achieve greater business success. We help our customers make, manage, measure and monetize their digital content across every channel and screen.

Digital media

Adobe helps creative professionals, publishers, developers, and businesses create, publish, promote, and monetize their content anywhere.

Digital marketing

Our digital marketing solutions combine content and data, personalization, experience management, and social capabilities so businesses can move faster from data to insights to action.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
FOUNDED
1982
WEBSITE
http://www.adobe.com/