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About the Role

The Unified Enterprise Architecture Team advises Adobe customers on strategies and technology solutions for customer-experience transformation and digital innovation. This role involves deep dives into architecture, defining prioritized paths forward, and focusing on how brands produce, manage, activate, and measure content at scale. Engagements assess current-state ecosystems, define future-state technical visions, identify gaps, and provide technical leadership throughout the sales cycle to overcome blockers and communicate the business value of Adobe product solutions. The Senior Manager of Enterprise Architecture will lead a team of professionals blending technical and business skills to architect solutions for customers, enabling them to ideate, produce, manage, deliver, and measure personalized content and experiences across all channels through Adobe's Content Supply Chain solutions. This customer-facing leadership role reports to the Director of Enterprise Architecture – Industry and serves as the primary technical partner for a Sales VP or Industry Head, accountable for technical leadership within an assigned vertical.

Responsibilities

Act in a sponsorship capacity for deals within an assigned patch of business to ensure application of team standard methodologies and procedures while also driving revenue outcomes.
Identify, recruit, hire, onboard, empower, grow, enable, and retain top architect talent.
Prioritize technical workstreams against capacity while driving technical pipeline progression to meet and exceed bookings targets.
Maintain an operational cadence for reporting and updates that effectively communicates deal status to collaborators on and off the architecture team.
Interact directly with individual contributors and leaders in presales, sales, product management, delivery (both Adobe and partner), and engineering.
Stay on the cutting edge of Adobe products, industry trends, and competitive landscape.
Align with Adobe processes and standards to ensure consistency across product pre-sales.

Requirements

10+ years of architecture experience in one or more of the following areas: content architecture, marketing technology architecture, and/or data architecture.
10+ years of people management experience.
Software presales or sales experience preferred.
Strong executive presence, presentation skills, and documentation skills.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment where processes and procedures may evolve.
Experience with Adobe's Content Supply Chain solutions, including Adobe Experience Manager (Sites and Assets), Workfront, Creative Cloud integrations, Firefly, GenStudio, and Frame.io.
Working knowledge of the broader Adobe Experience Cloud and Adobe Experience Platform.
Must have: experience with marketing content production and automation, working knowledge of advertising and marketing campaign execution, and hands-on experience with workflow and work management tooling (Workfront or comparable).
An understanding of how AI, LLMs, generative AI for content (image, video, copy), and agentic capabilities fit architecturally into martech and content supply chain stacks.
Familiarity with digital asset management, content lifecycle governance, brand consistency at scale, and creative-to-marketing handoff patterns.
Ability to partner effectively with customer IT and marketing leaders.
Build rapport with salespeople, sales managers, and other presales staff.
Ability to build strong relationships with Adobe and partner consultants and delivery leaders.
Solid understanding of current technical and architectural trends across key Adobe Experience functional areas.
Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills, including conducting research, developing hypotheses, and synthesizing recommendations.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels of an organization and communicate complex ideas clearly, both verbally and in writing.
Proven track record of working cross-functionally in a team-oriented environment.
Passion for learning, resourcefulness, and the ability to quickly absorb new concepts; enthusiasm for industry and technology trends.
High level of energy, personal drive, and positivity.

Skills

Content architecture
Marketing technology architecture
Data architecture
People management
Software presales
Sales
Executive presence
Presentation skills
Documentation skills
Adobe Experience Manager (Sites and Assets)
Workfront
Creative Cloud integrations
Firefly
GenStudio
Frame.io
Adobe Experience Cloud
Adobe Experience Platform
Marketing content production and automation
Advertising and marketing campaign execution
Workflow and work management tooling
AI
LLMs
Generative AI for content
Agentic capabilities
Martech
Content supply chain stacks
Digital asset management
Content lifecycle governance
Brand consistency at scale
Creative-to-marketing handoff patterns
Analytical skills
Problem-solving skills
Interpersonal skills
Cross-functional collaboration

Location

San Francisco Bay Area, California

Work Type

Onsite
Travel as required

Experience Level

Senior
10+ years of architecture experience
10+ years of people management experience

Salary/Compensations

$225,300 -- $384,675 annually
$265,700 - $384,675 (California)

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits programs

About the Company

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.
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact.
At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization.
Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Equal Opportunity

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
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The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation.
If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.
At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same.
As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews.
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