Engineering Program Manager @ Adobe

Job Description

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 role of PgM will be to drive and enhance productivity and efficiency of our highly creative team in the Experience Design space. Apart from the core task of project planning, schedule development and tracking, we are looking for a person who has the requisite experience and understanding to talk with the UI Designers/Creatives in their language and understand the business needs and do a good job in expectation management, metrics tracking and reporting to stakeholders at different levels.
The person should have good relationship building skills and empathy/appreciation for creative work.
Desired Skills and Experience:
. Builds the project schedule with direction from others.
. Prepares for milestone reviews with direction from others and may be the presenter for the milestone review.
. Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis and critical thinking of identifiable factors are confined to a specific project.
. Helps implement process improvements, generally focused on improvements for their project / product.
. Management of risks focused on their project, with guidance / risk identification from others.
. Able to effectively facilitate communication within immediate team. With assistance, tailors content and delivery of communication to the targeted audience. Consults with manager before setting red flag.
. With assistance, understands and articulates the scope of top issues and how they relate/affect the overall product.
. Brings up and resolves project-specific issues in a timely manner. Proposes workable solutions, while considering the needs of the immediate group that is impacted. Looks to manager for assistance in resolving the more complex issues.
. Works with manager to set priorities for multiple competing projects or tasks.
. Receives general instructions on routine work
Influence Impact
. Drives tactical decisions for projects that are under the individual's direct responsibility.
. Effectively negotiates, persuades and motivates others on immediate project team, providing justifiable proposals and recommendations and clearly outlined courses of action to follow.
. Outcome of decisions and actions taken may affect the human resources and/or financial costs of a project.
. Consults with manager in developing tactical methods to persuade immediate project team and external team members for deployment of actions.
. In consultation with manager, respond to current issues on projects, formulate and present corrective measures, and secure commitment from team members.
. Establishes credibility with peers at the project level and is a driving force for change when needed
Leadership
. Effectively executes plans for change (new process, tool, etc) within the project team.
. Takes initiative to drive problem resolution at the project level.
. Provides clarity and guidance on established policies and procedure at the project level.
. Leads by example

Employement Category:

Employement Type: Full time
Industry: IT
Functional Area: IT
Role Category: Program Manager
Role/Responsibilies: Engineering Program Manager

Contact Details:

Company: Adobe
Location(s): Bengaluru

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