Manager, Strategy

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 What You'll Do Strategic Planning & Business Operations - Partner with leadership to set priorities, track execution, and ensure alignment across teams. - Analyze business performance data, distill insights, and translate findings into actionable recommendations. - Provide business updates, dashboards, and executive reports that inform decision-making. - Build executive dashboards and health views that provide clarity on business performance, progress toward goals, and critical areas requiring intervention. - Anticipate challenges, define solutions, and facilitate strategy reviews with senior stakeholders. - Analyze emerging industry trends in Paid Media and Customer Success, distill insights, and provide strategic recommendations that enable leadership to anticipate shifts and drive competitive advantage - Establish structured innovation practiceleveraging AI to pilot new initiatives, evaluate impact, and scale successful experiments across teams. Executive Communications & Influence - Craft high-impact communications, including presentations, executive briefs, and strategic updates for senior leadership. - Act as a trusted communications partner, ensuring clarity, consistency, and influence across all messaging. - Support leader visibility and thought leadership through internal and external communications. - Build trusted advisory relationships across cross-functional teams, enabling alignment and influence at the executive level. - Design and facilitate leadership interventions and workshops that uncover the next big opportunities, align teams around a shared vision, and translate insights into actionable strategies for execution. - Help drive change management initiatives to enable organizational transformation and embed a culture of continuous improvement. - Lead scenario planning exercises with senior leadership to anticipate market shifts, customer behavior changes, and operational risks-developing contingency strategies and mitigation plans Program & Stakeholder Management - Drive and manage cross-functional initiatives, ensuring progress against key business goals. - Influence without authority by cultivating trusted relationships and credibility with senior leaders, ensuring alignment and momentum on key priorities. - Track and report on milestones, risks, and dependencies, securing alignment across stakeholders. - Enhance operational efficiency by streamlining processes and introducing scalable frameworks. - Mentor and coach teams on effective communications, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement. What You Need to Succeed - MBA or equivalent advanced degree background in strategy, or business operations preferred. - Ability to Make this happen and not get stuck - Owning the Outcome. - Strong analytical skills with proven ability to translate complex data into clear insights and recommendations. - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills experience preparing executive-level content and presentations. - Demonstrated success in stakeholder management and influencing across all levels of leadership. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with shifting priorities. - People management experience a plus. - Experience across Performance Marketing and/or Customer Success functions will be highly advantageous Adobe is proud to be anemployer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, emailor call (408) 536-3015.