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AI Community Strategy Lead

Adobe Inc.
United States, California, San Francisco
Apr 15, 2025
Our Company Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone-from emerging artists to global brands-everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours! The Opportunity Adobe is passionate about creativity. Our mission is to champion and empower the global creative community, enabling anyone with a story to tell or vision to share. We are seeking a strategic, AI industry-savvy AI Community Strategy Lead to drive our community engagement and advocacy efforts across Adobe's Gen AI products and tools. This role requires deep AI expertise while also maintaining a strong understanding of the broader creative ecosystem.You should feel at ease making pitches to senior leadership, championing the voice of the community, and establishing relationships with impactful leaders in the industry. This role is a unique opportunity to influence the future of creativity by ensuring that community insights shape Adobe's AI products, policies, and strategy - while also communicating Adobe's AI messaging and positioning back to the community. What You'll Do Lead AI Community Strategy: Apply community insights to drive AI community strategies aligning Adobe priorities with creative professionals' needs. Balance long-term vision with tactical impact, ensuring community motions support product launches and ongoing strategy Build Key Leader Programs: Lead the Gen AI VIP program, helping scale and drive impact with our AI community leaders to grow both advocacy and insights. Community Communications: Craft and implement clear communication between Adobe and the community, ensuring people understand not just what Adobe is doing but why - fostering trust, advocacy, and stronger sentiment. Internal Advocacy: Serve as an advocate for the AI community, deeply understanding the community's perspective and representing that internally, shaping policies, products, communications, and strategy. Relationship Building: Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with AI community leaders, educators, and event organizers, positioning Adobe as a trusted partner in the creative space. Measure & Optimize Impact: Establish clear metrics to track the impact of community programs, using data to continuously refine and improve engagement strategies. What You Need to Succeed Deep Passion for AI & Creativity: A genuine love for creativity, with a nuanced understanding of how AI is redefining this space - including platforms, events, trends, and creative professionals' evolving needs. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud tools is a plus, but true connection to and unbridled curiosity for the AI+creativity world is key. Strategic & Analytical Skills: 7-10 years in strategy, consulting, product marketing, product management, brand strategy, partnerships, operations, or innovation. A track record of turning complex insights into action. Experience with market research, competitive analysis, and data-driven decision-making is a big plus. Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in business, marketing, design, communications, or a related field required. MBA or equivalent experience highly desirable. Critical Thinking: Exceptional ability to assess the broader landscape, find opportunities, and architect scalable strategies that drive relevant business impact. Curiosity & Persistence: A problem solver who digs deep to understand root causes - especially with product and customer difficulties. Proactively seeks insights, asks thoughtful questions, and persistently advocates for the best solutions. Influence & Executive Presence: A persuasive communicator with the confidence to advocate for community needs in high-stakes conversations with senior leadership. Skilled at navigating complex discussions and building alignment across teams. Leadership & Collaboration: Experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives. Skilled at driving consensus, balancing opposing priorities, and fostering collaboration across marketing, product, and external partners. Passionate about Achieving Results: Sets clear goals, assesses program efficiency, and continuously improves strategies. Comfortable synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data to inform decisions and measure success. Agility & Adaptability: Comfortable with ambiguity, balancing critical thinking with hands-on execution when necessary. Presence & Flexibility: Willing to travel up to 25% to attend key events, nurture relationships, and maintain a visible presence within the design community, as business priorities dictate. Location: SF Bay Area highly preferred, open to other major US cities Application Window Notice If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least 12:01 AM Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs. 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 positionis $131,600 -- $250,200 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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. At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are 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). In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award. Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances. Adobe is proud to be anEqual Employment Opportunityand affirmative action 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 applicable characteristics protected by law.Learn more. Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, emailaccommodations@adobe.comor call (408) 536-3015. 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