Program Manager 2

You’ll be joining Adobe on a contract opportunity, employed through NextDeavor.

Benefits You’ll Love

NextDeavor offers health, vision and dental benefits for contract employees Paid sick leave eligibility is contingent on state of residence Optional 401k Plan (excludes employer match) Opportunity to get your foot in the door at a well-established corporation, with potential for extended or permanent full-time employment

Become a Key Player as a Program Manager 2

You will lead large, multi-team engineering programs that deliver high-impact product outcomes in support of the client’s roadmap. You will partner closely with product, design, architecture, engineering, and business enablement stakeholders to maintain program alignment and clarity. This is an onsite role in San Jose, CA, supporting a fixed-term leave-of-absence coverage assignment.

Here’s How You’ll Make an Impact on the Team

• Drive planning and execution of the product roadmap with cross-functional partners.
• Develop and manage program plans, schedules, risks, mitigations, status reporting, and executive updates.
• Serve as the authoritative source of truth for program state, dependencies, risks, and opportunities.
• Guide AI feature development lifecycles, including hypothesis validation, fine-tuning, evaluations, and resource planning.
• Engage and influence stakeholders at all levels and produce tailored materials from executive presentations to engineering documentation.
• Define and drive processes to coordinate and resolve cross-team issues and continuously improve velocity and outcomes.
• Establish and lead a coalition of cross-functional leaders to ensure cohesive execution.

Here’s What You’ll Need to Be Successful in This Role

• Technical background preferred.
• 3 - 6 years of related experience.
• Experience leading complex engineering programs from concept through delivery.
• Strong skills in program governance, reporting, risk and dependency management, and budget oversight.
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, and Lean practices to optimize development processes.
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous requirements into structured roadmaps, milestones, and measurable success criteria.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Here’s What Else Might Help You Out

• Experience with AI feature development lifecycle and related evaluations.
• Experience driving organizational change and adoption of new tools or operating models.

Pay Range

$54.77 - $68.46/hour

Ready to Make Your Mark?

This role may fill quickly. Submit your resume to be considered.