COMPLETE Senior Strategy & Operations Manager, Employee Experience - San Jose

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

The Senior Strategy & Operations Manager will partner closely with the Chief People Officer and her leadership team to develop, manage and scale key initiatives, operating mechanisms and processes, and lead and scale strategic operations within a complex global Employee Experience organization. The biggest impact will come from someone who possesses strong business and operating intuition, is a motivational agent of change, and has extraordinary program management intuition and skill. The ideal candidate will “roll up” their sleeves to dig into details to assess business needs, identify gaps in strategic operations, and turn problems into prioritized, well-executed programs to drive value. Your operating and leadership experience in global, cross-functional and collaborative environments will ensure your success in this dynamic, high-impact position. This position will primarily be focused on partnering with senior leaders across the business.

What you’ll do

• Evolve strategic operations for the Employee Experience business (including executive staff meeting agendas, all hands, and quarterly business reviews), drive accountability, and continuous process improvement
• Serve as thought partner to the Chief People Officer and leadership team, informing and influencing points of view of key senior leaders and cross-functional partners, and influence the broader Employee Experience organization on their behalf
• Build effective, trusting business relationships across the organization to support Adobe’s strategic business direction in alignment with Adobe's Core Values
• Business performance: drive cadence for prep and reviews for quarterly progress towards achievements, including communication updates to multiple levels within the organization
• Work with the cross-Employee Experience (EX) Business Operations team to establish and drive initiatives across time horizons (i.e. weekly, quarterly, annually & and multi-year/strategic-planning)
• Drive and provide programmatic support, accountability and ownership for key initiatives across Employee Experience and with key partners across the EX organization
• Partner with Centers of Excellence and functional partners to drive initiatives including alignment of EX resources to the top priorities in service to the stated vision and strategy

What you need to succeed

• 5-7+ years of shown experience in strategic operational roles, partnering directly with leadership
• Critical thinking skills and able to take sizable problems and break them into small meaningful pieces as well as being able to use data to derive insights from metrics
• Ability to create relationships and partnerships (internal and external) at all levels of the organization, exhibit strong leadership and influencing skills, and design, implement, and lead change management initiatives
• Extraordinary ability to program manage across complex operations
• Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and through tools like PowerPoint
• Comfort with ambiguity, a can-do attitude and attention to operational details
• Ability to learn, grow and take on expanded duties as business needs evolve
• Excellent meeting design and facilitation skills
• Superb judgment and integrity, including excellent decision-making skills and a sense of urgency
• BA or BS degree in a related field
• Human Resources experience is strongly preferred

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 $120,500 -- $223,700 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.

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