Principal Product Manager, Developer Experience & API Platform
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Our Company The Opportunity Join Adobe's Firefly Services team and shape how developers build with generative AI. We're delivering the API layer that powers intelligent imaging and video workflows-covering 3D/2D compositing, background synthesis, video reframing, avatars, texttospeech, and more. As Principal Product Manager for Developer Experience & API Platform, you'll define and lead how developers-inside and outside Adobe-discover, integrate, and scale with Firefly. You'll influence design standards, establish documentation excellence, and lead crossfunctional efforts to turn breakthrough AI into productionready, developerloved services. What You'll Own *
Developer journey, endtoend: define and lead DevEx across REST APIs, SDKs, quickstarts, interactive docs, testing tools, and onboarding; optimize TimetoFirstSuccess (TTFS) and activation.
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API coherence & quality: establish and enforce design standards (naming, auth, errors
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Lifecycle & reliability: own versioning/deprecation policy, ratelimit strategy, SLAs, security/compliance alignment, and backwardcompatibility guarantees.
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Tooling & ecosystem: ship Postman collections, OpenAPI specs, SDKs/clients, CLIs, code samples, and a changelog that makes updates safe and predictable.
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Instrumentation & feedback loops: define DevEx telemetry (TTFS, activation, retained integrations, API error classes), run surveys/GitHub programs, and translate insights into a quarterly DevEx roadmap.
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Developer portal experience: partner on IA, discoverability, selfserve keys/sandboxes, and "Hello World" flows; ensure 1P/3P parity.
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Crossfunctional leadership: work with Firefly engineering, Creative Cloud product teams, Design/Content, DevRel, and enterprise customers to unblock adoption and scale repeatable patterns. What You'll Bring *
8+ years of product management experience with a focus on APIs/developer platforms; proven wins driving adoption and reducing integration friction.
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Strong technical intuition across REST, authentication (OAuth2, tokens), gateways, observability, backward compatibility, and reliability at scale.
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Track record shipping tooling & docs (OpenAPI, SDKs, CLIs, Postman) that developers use and love.
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Outcome mindset: improved
TTFS
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Exceptional communication and storytelling skills-capable of aligning engineers, executives, and external developers.
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Passion for GenAI and creative pipelines (
3D/
imaging/video) and how developers productize them. Nice to Have *
Experience operating an API style guide and review council; running beta/GA and changemanagement programs.
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Background with DX telemetry, selfserve sandboxes/mocks, and partner certification programs.
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Opensource or developer community contributions (SDKs, CLIs, dev tools). Why Join Us? You'll join a high-impact, growing team that's defining the enterprise GenAI stack for Adobe. Firefly Services is where platform product thinking meets real-world adoption at scale. You'll influence how global brands automate creativity, accelerate production, and unlock entirely new business models. 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 $145,100 -- $273,200 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. State-Specific Notices: California: Fair Chance Ordinances Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances. Colorado: 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 the date and time stated above in 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. Massachusetts: Massachusetts Legal Notice It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunityemployer. 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, email accommodations@adobe.comor call (408) 536-3015. |