Principal Product Manager - Agentic AI and Tech Transfer for Audio, Video and Motion

Adobe Inc.
United States, California, San Francisco
Sep 23, 2025
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! About Us We create industry-leading video editing solutions used by creative professionals and ambitious storytellers worldwide. As we enter a new era of AI-powered creativity, we're investing deeply inagentic AI-intelligent, autonomous tools that don't just follow commands, but actively collaborate with creators to bring ideas to life faster, smarter, and more intuitively than ever before. This is a rare opportunity to lead thenext wave of creative AI innovationat a company with a trusted brand, a loyal global user base, and the resources to scale bold ideas. You'll be shaping tools that will redefine how stories are told-and how storytellers work-around the world. Role Overview We are seeking aPrincipal Product Managerto lead our agentic AI initiatives and tech transfer operations for Audio, Video and Motion Products across all surfaces - desktop, web, mobile, and enterprise services. In this senior technical PM role, you will help define the strategy, roadmap, and execution for AI agentic workflows with cross-functional teams. To do this, you need to understand the technical underpinnings required to achieve our vision, anticipate user needs, automate complex workflows, and enable breakthrough creative possibilities. You will work with Adobe research and core engineering teams to help prioritize agentic and AI use cases for the DVA product team. In addition, you will act as the PM representative to the tech transfer teams, helping to define process while also bridging the gap between R&D and production-ready features, ensuring innovations move efficiently from concept to market. This is a highly visible leadership role, working across product, engineering, AI research, design, and go-to-market teams to deliver AI agents that integrate seamlessly into professional video editing workflows. Key Responsibilities Own the vision and strategyfor agentic AI across our product line, aligned with company goals and market opportunities. Work with engineering leaders on a corporate -wide agent framework to ensure agentic product vision needs are met. Drive an innovation pipeline from prototypes to product integration by working closely with product, research and thetech transfer teams to move technologies from R&D to product, ensuring AI innovations are productized, integrated, and launched successfully. Translate user pain points intoAI-driven solutionsthat save time, reduce complexity, and expand creative potential. Partner with AI/ML teams to define agent behaviors, decision-making frameworks, and integration points within editing tools. Build and maintain amulti-year roadmapfor expressive, assistive and corrective AI capabilities. Define success metrics and KPIs for agent performance, user satisfaction, and creative impact. Stay ahead of AI research and competitor activity to ensure our tools remain category-leading. Collaborate with design on both strategy and new UI/UX concepts for human-AI collaboration. Participate in defining strategies to use 3D and AI to reinvent the next generation of storytelling. Champion the voice of the customer, conducting interviews, usability testing, and workflow studies. Partner with marketing and sales in support of product positioning, messaging, and launch strategies. What We're Looking For Required: 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 in a senior or principal-level role. Strong understanding ofAI and machine learning concepts, particularly in generative and agentic AI. Proven track record of shipping complex, high-impact features in a cross-functional environment. Experience guiding innovations fromresearch stage to commercial product. Deep empathy for creative professionals and understanding of video production workflows. Excellent communication skills, both technical and business oriented. Preferred: Experience working with large language models, computer vision, or multimodal AI systems. Background in film, TV, or digital video production. Familiarity with prompt engineering, reinforcement learning, or AI agent orchestration frameworks. Prior experience bridgingR&D and product deliveryin a fast-moving market. 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 positionis $145,100 -- $273,200 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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: Fair Chance Ordinances Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances. Colorado: Application Window Notice If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs. Massachusetts: Massachusetts Legal Notice It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. 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