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 with the VP, Employee Experience and their leadership team to develop, manage, and scale key initiatives, processes, and operations across the Global Business Partnering & Talent team. The ideal candidate possesses strong business intuition, exceptional operational and program management skills, and motivational change leadership. You are always ready to “roll up” your sleeves and dig into details to assess business needs and identify gaps in strategic operations. You are able to turn complex problems into prioritized, well-executed solutions that drive impact. You thrive in a dynamic, fast-faced environment, seek to learn and grow as the organization evolves, and are always thinking of the needs of the team and business.

What you’ll do

• Evolve strategic operations for the global organization, including establishing best practices, optimizing processes, and driving team synchronicity, engagement and effectiveness
• Be a trusted advisor and collaborator to the VP, Employee Experience and leadership team on strategic business decisions and challenges, and influence the broader Employee Experience organization on their behalf
• Identify areas of improvement across the broader team, providing actionable insights and recommendations
• Collaborate with Centers of Excellence on cross-functional initiatives, including alignment of resources to the stated vision and strategy, and ensuring clear and consistent roll-outs of programs and processes
• Drive the operating cadence for the organization, including the weekly leadership team meetings, monthly All-Hands, annual and multi-year/strategic-planning, and business performance review to evaluate progress towards goals
• Manage operations for the VP, Employee Experience, including facilitating prioritization, tracking key metrics, and meeting preparation internally and externally.

What you need to succeed

• 5 - 7+ years of shown experience in strategic operational roles, partnering directly with senior leaders 
• Ability to use critical thinking skills to breakdown sizable problems into meaningful pieces, and leverage data to derive insights
• Strong business acumen and curiosity about the business
• Outstanding ability to program manage complex operations, and proactively design, implement, and lead change initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and partnerships at all levels of the organization, identify and align diverse perspectives, and advise and influence senior partners
• Superb judgment and integrity, including excellent decision-making skills
• Excellent communication, written, and verbal skills, and solid attention to detail
• Comfort with ambiguity, a can-do attitude, and the ability to learn, grow, and take on expanded duties as business needs evolve
• BA or BS degree in a related field; MBA, Management Consulting is a plus
• Previous HR experience is 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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