Director of Product Management – Adobe Lightroom

Adobe

. Lead key product strategy workstreams for the Creative Pro audience across Lightroom desktop, mobile, and web .

Posted 9/19/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesLead💰 $231,000 - $334,500 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product strategy and development for professional photography workflows, with a strong focus on AI, automation, and user experience. Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and build relationships within the photography community.

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Product Strategy DevelopmentProfessional Photography WorkflowsAI And Automation IntegrationCross-Functional CollaborationExecutive-Level Storytelling

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Hard Skills

Product LeadershipWorkflow OptimizationCustomer Research AnalysisMachine LearningGenerative AIProduct EvaluationHigh-Volume ProductionCreative ControlPhotography Portfolio DevelopmentCommunity Building

Soft Skills

CollaborationOwnershipTrust BuildingAnalytical JudgmentInfluence

Tools & Technologies

LightroomPhotography ToolsCreative SoftwarePrototyping ToolsDesign Software

Industry Keywords

Creative Pro AudienceProfessional PhotographersPhotography EcosystemClient ExpectationsProduct Marketing

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead key product strategy workstreams for the Creative Pro audience across Lightroom desktop, mobile, and web
Identify high-value opportunities across professional workflows including ingest, culling, editing, retouching, masking, batch editing, collaboration, client review, delivery, and archive
Translate photographers’ jobs to be done into product principles, requirements, priorities, and success measures
Define how Lightroom can provide greater benefits to working photographers
Represent professional photographers across genres inside Adobe
Build relationships with professional photographers, educators, creators, camera partners, and industry experts
Bring hands-on photography fluency into product reviews, prototypes, roadmap discussions, launch planning, and executive conversations
Partner with advanced technology, design, and engineering teams to shape new capabilities into reliable photographer experiences
Define how AI, agents, and automation should appear in Lightroom to save time, improve quality, reduce repetitive work, and expand creative possibility
Balance innovation with quality, performance, reliability, transparency, and user control
Drive clarity and alignment across cross-functional teams, strategic forums, planning cycles, and executive discussions
Stay close to the tools, services, communities, and workflows professional photographers use
Develop a point of view on Lightroom’s strategic leadership, partnerships, and customer expectations
Connect customer insight, product quality, adoption, retention, monetization, and competitive differentiation into product recommendations

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience as a senior product leader who has defined strategy and shipped high-impact products, ideally for creative, media, professional, technical, or workflow-intensive customers
Deep understanding of professional photography workflows, including speed, quality, consistency, client expectations, high-volume production, and creative control
Strong product taste and ability to evaluate experiences for professional use
Experience turning ambiguous customer needs, emerging technology, and business goals into product strategy, tradeoffs, and shipped outcomes
Experience partnering with research, design, engineering, and product marketing to deliver customer-facing products at scale
Experience with AI, automation, machine learning, generative AI, or agentic experiences
Executive-level storytelling and influence, especially in senior individual-contributor roles
Strong analytical judgment using usage data, customer research, market signals, competitive insight, and hands-on craft expertise
Excellent collaboration skills, high ownership, and ability to build trust with photographers and internal partners
Over 10 years spent working professionally as a photographer is a strong plus
Experience teaching, mentoring, writing for, or building community with photographers is a strong plus
Experience collaborating with camera manufacturers, lens makers, imaging hardware companies, or other photography ecosystem partners is a strong plus
Photography portfolio, shipped product examples, writing, talks, or other work demonstrating extensive knowledge of professional creative workflows is a strong plus
Compliance with Adobe interview AI-use guidelines

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual Incentive Plan (AIP)
Certain roles may be eligible for a new hire equity award
Comprehensive benefits programs
Equal Employment Opportunity
Accessibility accommodations during the application process