Director, Strategic PMO
Adobe
Role Summary
We are seeking a senior PMO leader to oversee a complex, multiyear, multi workstream strategic partnership involving co-innovation, solution development, services delivery, product integration, and coordinated GTM activation.
This role serves as the central program leader responsible for ensuring operational rigor, workstream discipline, cross functional synchronization, structured governance, and predictable execution across all partnership activities. The PMO Lead ensures that all workstream sponsors follow through on their commitments, business cases, and delivery milestones while also coordinating closely with internal functions such as legal, sourcing, finance, product, engineering, partner marketing, and field teams.
This is a high visibility role that requires exceptional program leadership, strong commercial acumen, and experience orchestrating complex crossfunctional initiatives in fast moving environments.
Key Responsibilities
1. Governance & Operating Cadence
Own and operate the endtoend governance model across all participating organizations.
Establish and run structured partnership cadences, including monthly, quarterly, and executive level reviews.
Manage issue and risk escalation processes across workstream, program, and executive levels.
Maintain clear and consistent communication loops between workstream owners, alliance management, executive sponsors, and technical leadership.
Establish and maintain a structured PMO operating model aligned to multi-year strategic investments.
2. Workstream Oversight
Oversee execution quality and pacing across all defined workstreams, which may include areas such as presales support, value realization, consulting delivery, product integration, GTM enablement, and innovation programs.
Ensure each workstream maintains clear deliverables, KPIs, milestones, risks, business case assumptions, and success measurements.
Track progress across all workstreams through standardized dashboards, status reviews, and structured accountability mechanisms.
3. SOW Development, Contracting & Compliance
Lead the orchestration of Statements of Work (SOWs) across all workstreams.
Coordinate with internal legal, sourcing, finance, and relevant workstream sponsors to ensure timely drafting, review, negotiation, and execution of all SOWs.
Maintain a comprehensive view of all contractual obligations, delivery timelines, dependencies, and cross functional requirements.
Monitor SLA compliance for approvals, and onboarding.
4. Product & Engineering Integration Program Management
Partner closely with product and engineering teams to ensure that roadmap integration commitments are clearly defined, resourced, and progressing as planned.
Track endtoend delivery of technical integration milestones.
Ensure alignment between engineering delivery, workstream interdependencies, and GTM timelines.
5. GTM, Partner Marketing & Field Alignment
Drive coordinated GTM execution across partner marketing, sales, and alliance leadership.
Ensure the creation of messaging, positioning, enablement assets, solution packaging, and field ready materials.
Support demand generation initiatives, joint marketing motions, and field activation programs.
Partner with the partner management team to track adoption metrics, pipeline influence, and revenue aligned outcomes associated with the joint solutions.
6. Investment Oversight/Management
Maintain comprehensive oversight of the company’s multiyear strategic commitment with the external partner under the governing commercial agreement.
Track all spending across workstreams, ensuring alignment to agreed upon annual and total targets set forth in the partnership framework.
Reconcile all Eligible Fees, monitor burn rate, and validate quarterly spend reports received from the partner, including identifying discrepancies and driving resolution through the governance process.
Ensure spend progress is accurately reflected against each workstream’s commitments, success measures, and performance expectations.
Maintain realtime visibility into pacing, forecasts, risks, and remaining balance toward the overall spend commitment, providing structured insights to senior leadership.
Coordinate closely with workstream sponsors, sourcing, legal, finance, and partner management teams to ensure all spending is properly attributed, contractually compliant, and aligned to strategic outcomes.
Support governance reviews by preparing executive ready summaries of investment performance, pacing, risks, and mitigation plans.
7. Executive Reporting & Insights
Create executive ready reports summarizing progress across workstreams, technical integrations, GTM activities, risks, and program health.
Provide structured insights, scenario analysis, and data driven recommendations to senior leadership.
Maintain realtime dashboards on program performance, risks, and strategic milestones.
Success Metrics
Success for this role includes:
Operational discipline and predictability across all workstreams
Timely execution of SOWs, integration milestones, and GTM deliverables
Institutionalized governance rhythms with consistent cross functional participation
Highquality strategic reporting to executive and cross functional leadership
Measurable impact on product integration progress, solution readiness, and GTM performance
Positive stakeholder feedback across internal teams and partner organizations
Experience & Qualifications
Required
12–15+ years of PMO leadership or enterprise program management experience
Demonstrated success leading large, complex, multiworkstream programs
Experience coordinating across product, engineering, sales, legal, sourcing, and marketing functions
Strong financial, operational, and commercial acumen
Exceptional communication skills and executive presence
Ability to drive clarity, alignment, and accountability across matrixed teams
Preferred
Background in SaaS, digital experience platforms, enterprise transformations, or co-innovation programs
Experience with ecosystem partnerships, creative/marketing technology, or AI enabled workflows
Familiarity with large scale GTM motions and joint solution development
What Success Looks Like in 12 Months
Governance operating rhythm fully established and adopted
Relevant workstream SOWs executed on time and aligned to program requirements
Stakeholders across all functions report high satisfaction with program structure and execution
Program is operating predictably, transparently, and with clear accountability
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Expected Pay Range:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $151,800 -- $299,700 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.
In New York, the pay range for this position is $207,000 - $299,700

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