The Opportunity Adobe's Employee Experience (EX) M&A team owns the people-related dimensions of every transaction—from due diligence through close and post-close integration. As deal volume and complexity have grown, we are adding a Senior Program Manager to bring dedicated capacity to the integration workstreams that most directly shape the acquired-employee experience: change management, culture integration, onboarding, and leadership/manager/team enablement.  Working alongside our existing program leads, you will run defined workstreams end-to-end—designing the plan, coordinating cross-functionally, and driving execution against timeline and quality bars—while building the mechanics and playbooks that let the team scale.   What You'll Do  * Design and lead deal-specific EX change management strategies, including onboarding (leadership onboarding through team onboarding), post-onboarding monitoring, and retrospectives.  * Assess cultural gaps between Adobe and target companies, and build practical bridging programs that ease the transition for acquired employees and leaders.  * Facilitate onboarding and enablement activities; guide managers and leaders through periods of significant organizational change.   * Design and act on employee pulse surveys during organizational change, translating signals into interventions.  * Partner with target-company and Adobe leaders to align integration plans, and connect structural design (org and operating model) to the lived employee experience (culture, onboarding, enablement).  * Align EX change and culture initiatives with the broader communications strategy so messaging and action reinforce each other.  * Coordinate across Corporate Development / Integration, Legal, Finance, ATS/Systems, HRBPs, and business leaders to keep EX integration workstreams on track.  * Independently manage workstream mechanics - timelines, tracking, documentation and and prepare clear, executive-level status reporting.  * Develop and track integration metrics and pulse-survey signals to measure EX effectiveness and inform leadership decision-making.  * Build a network of external standards and industry benchmarks to continuously refine EX M&A playbooks.  What You Need to Succeed  Required  * 7+ years in HR, with M&A experience focused on integration, change management, or culture work; exposure across all deal phases is ideal.  * Hands-on experience designing and delivering change-management or culture-integration programs in a deal context.  * Strong data proficiency, including comfort working with employee census and workforce data and HRIS systems (e.g., Workday) to identify trends, flag risks, and inform integration decisions.  * Experience designing onboarding programs and delivering leadership onboarding post-close.  * Experience designing and acting on employee pulse surveys during periods of organizational change.  * Strong facilitation skills—comfortable leading workshops and driving alignment in rapidly changing, ambiguous environments.  * Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver clear, well-structured, and impactful executive level presentations that distill complex integration work into insights for senior leadership.  * Skilled at partnering with communications and cross-functional teams to align messaging and action.  * Strong program management fundamentals; able to independently own workstream mechanics (timelines, tracking, documentation) across concurrent priorities.  * Ability to exercise independent judgment and discretion in handling highly confidential, deal-related information  Preferred  * Consulting experience (management, HR, or M&A advisory), bringing a fungible, deploy-anywhere skills the team can apply across transformation work.  * Proven ability to thrive in a high-volume, high-pressure environment with competing priorities across multiple time zones and geographies, maintaining quality and composure under tight deal timelines.  * Experience with complex-structured, stock, or asset deals.  * Experience coaching managers and leaders through significant organizational change.  * Breadth to operate as a utility player—able to move across M&A and broader transformation initiatives as priorities shift.  * Willingness and ability to travel on short notice to support critical deal moments throughout the transaction lifecycle, from diligence through integration, as deals require.   About Adobe 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. The next big idea could be yours.  Let’s Adobe together At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. 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. 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. Learn more. Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process 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.com. AI Use Guidelines for Interviews: Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. 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. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.   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 $117,900 - $245,300 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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In California, the pay range for this position is $169,400 - $245,300
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