Compensation Program Manager, Rewards & Market Strategy

About the role

As a Compensation Program Manager, you will lead the end-to-end management of Adobe's global rewards and promotion cycles and work to improve our annual market pricing methodology and system. You will work alongside Talent Management to ensure the pay-for-performance philosophy is clear and applied consistently. This is a role that will require compensation expertise, precision, and ability to build something new on established frameworks. This position is in the San Jose, CA office.

What You'll Do

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of the annual rewards cycle — merit, promotions, adjustments, bonus, and equity — partnering with HRBPs, Talent Management/Development, and Finance to at scale for global people managers
• Own the global promotion cycle from design through execution, ensuring consistency, fairness, and alignment with our compensation philosophy across all regions
• Enhance and own Adobe's annual market pricing process, advising on the methodology, building new tooling, and creating a cadence that gives the team a structured, repeatable approach to competitive positioning
• Collaborate closely with Talent Management to inform and align pay-for-performance philosophy, ensuring compensation and talent strategies are in lockstep on how Adobe rewards impact and growth
• Develop manager and HRBP-facing guidance and communications that build organizational capability and reduce cycle concerns over time
• Leverage Workday and PowerBI to build cycle reporting, monitor program health, and deliver data-driven insights before, during, and after each cycle
• Identify and drive process improvements that increase cycle efficiency, partnering with the broader team, to reduce manual effort year-over-year

Requirements

• 5+ years of compensation experience with demonstrated ownership of annual rewards or promotion cycle execution in a global environment
• Strong working knowledge of market pricing and salary benchmarking; Radford survey experience
• Clear, confident communicator who can translate compensation complexity into plain language for managers, HRBPs, and senior leaders
• Collaborative partner; experience working cross-functionally to build alignment
• Strong proficiency with Workday compensation modules; experience building or maintaining cycle workflows a strong plus
• PowerBI or comparable data visualization experience; ability to prototype compensation metrics and dashboards for the Analytics team to configure
• Comfortable with ambiguity and motivated by ownership — Adobe's compensation function is evolving and this role will evolve with it

Pay

U.S. pay range: $79,800 – $168,700 annually. Pay varies by work location and may depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In California, the pay range is $116,500 – $168,700. For non-sales roles, starting salaries are expressed as base salary with short-term incentives through the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP); certain roles may also be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.