Principal Product Manager

The Opportunity

Our team is building and owning the runtime and control plane for agents across Adobe CX Enterprise — the harness layer that turns LLMs into enterprise coworkers grounded in Adobe's data (RTCDP, AJO, CJA) and governed by CX enterprise guardrails. We're hiring a Principal PM to own the core platform: the agent loop, the tool and skills, and the developer surface that practitioners and partners build against. This role is for someone who already lives in the modern agentic stack and has opinions about it. You've used Claude Code, written skills, debugged MCP servers, and have a view on where the harness ends and domain intelligence begins. You understand that the commodity layer is racing to the bottom and that the defensible work is in the data & control planes, the contracts, and the feedback loop.

What You'll Do

• Own the runtime agentic core loop and the contracts around it — tool protocols (MCP, A2A), skills, knowledge grounding, and the enterprise trust & safety guarantees.
• Define how agents are evaluated, overridden, and improved in production. The override and feedback loop is the moat; you'll design it.
• Drive the developer surface for both Agent Developers (who define skills) and Agentic App Developers (who compose them). Docs, CLI, local dev/prod parity, the works.
• Work with the team on architectural calls on what we build vs. adopts from the open ecosystem. Hold the line on control plane ownership (auth, entitlements, governance) without reinventing what the ecosystem already does well.
• Partner with Applied Science and ML Eng on agent quality benchmarks that actually predict customer outcomes — not vanity evals.
• Work directly with the engineering leads, design, and field teams across the org. Translate between research, engineering, and GTM without losing precision.

Who You Are

• 7+ years in PM, with real depth in AI platforms, developer tools, or infra products. Application PMs who haven't shipped platform contracts won't be a fit.
• You can speak fluently about MCP, skills, harness patterns, agent loops, tool use, context engineering, and evaluation. You've built or extended something in this space — not just read about it.
• You've used Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent agentic dev environments seriously enough to have informed opinions about what they get right and wrong.
• You think in contracts and interfaces. You understand why ABI stability matters, why plugin/marketplace/tool terminology needs precision, and why "just use the model" is rarely the answer at the platform layer.
• You can hold a position with engineering leads and back it with technical reasoning, and you can change your mind when the argument is better.
• You write tersely. You strip adjectives. You calibrate by audience — exec memo, eng spec, customer doc — without losing the through-line.
• CS or engineering background strongly preferred. Hands-on coding ability is a plus, not a requirement, but you should be able to read a skill manifest or an MCP server and know what it does.
• On-site in San Jose weekly with the team.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity. Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth.

Pay

• U.S. pay range: $148,100 – $282,100 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
• In California, the pay range is $194,800 – $282,100.
• For sales roles, starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), with short-term incentives 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). Certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.