Adobe

Director, Finance and Technology Transformation

San Jose Full time

The Opportunity

Ready to lead transformations that deliver value? Adobe is looking for a high‑impact Director Finance and Technology Transformation to drive large-scale initiatives from build to value realization. This role sits at the heart of Adobe’s most important transformations. High visibility and real impact!

At the crossroads of people, process, and technology, this leader will guide the orchestration layer of transformation. This role includes aligning priorities, managing complex initiatives step-by-step, and enabling important decisions across a linked organization. You will advise senior executives, influence strategic direction, identify key trade-offs, and promote harmony between internal leaders and external System Integrator (SI) partners.

The ideal candidate has a proven track record of leading complex, global transformations and excels at navigating matrixed environments to translate high-level strategy into measurable business outcomes.

What you’ll do

  • Define and drive the overarching strategy, ensuring every initiative is anchored to Adobe’s long-term business priorities and value-creation targets.

  • Link enterprise objectives across front and back-office functions to outline scope, highlight essential trade-offs, and support informed executive decision-making.

  • Partner with executive leadership to secure early agreement on strategic outcomes, success metrics, and value realization.

  • Influence high-stakes discussions across multiple functions while balancing speed, risk, and long-term impact.

  • Establish decision forums and prioritization frameworks that resolve bottlenecks, manage cross-team dependencies, and keep work moving at pace.

  • Translate intricate business and technical challenges into clear priorities, actionable achievements, and rigorous success metrics.

  • Operate with high credibility in a matrixed environment, getting results through expertise and relationship-building instead of relying on formal authority.

  • Partner with functional and change management leaders to build readiness strategies and communication plans that ensure long-term adoption.

  • Encourage a culture of shared ownership through clear role definition, consistent communication, and relentless follow-through.

What you need to succeed

  • 12–15+ years of experience leading enterprise-wide, cross-functional transformations or large-scale strategic operations within complex, global organizations.

  • Proven ability to engage at the C-suite and SVP level, driving high-stakes decisions and navigating matrixed environments through expert influence rather than formal authority.

  • Outstanding ability to convey complex technical or business challenges into clear, executive-ready narratives that build consensus.

  • Excellent strategic judgment and emotional intelligence, with experience navigating organizational dynamics and competing priorities.

  • Demonstrated ability to anticipate risks, surface critical trade-offs early, and foster alignment before issues arise

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.

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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 $153,200 -- $299,700 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and 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.

 

In California, the pay range for this position is $207,000 - $299,700

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:

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Colorado:

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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:

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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.