Sr. Director, Data & Analytics

Adobe Inc.
United States, California, San Francisco
Apr 10, 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! Reporting directly to the VP of Strategy and Growth for Creative Cloud, this is a highly strategic and critical role with the primary goal of building a center of excellence (team and tooling) to drive data-driven strategic discussions and initiatives. This must capture, inspect, and analyze usage and behavioral patterns within our products (such as traffic to conversion analysis, initial experience to full usage retention analysis, etc.) to help drive net new growth, increased usage, and long-term retention. Expectations of this role (and the team reporting into this role) include, but are not limited to, identifying and interpreting trends and patterns in datasets to constructs forecasts, recommendations, and strategic/tactical plans based on business data and market knowledge, Additionally, this is a role that may work across Adobe as the center of excellence matures in order to connect and identify broader user trends and opportunities for efficiency and impact. The Opportunity As Adobe continues to grow and the create software landscape changes, we are rapidly growing our efforts to be a data-first and behavioral science-based product organization. We are looking to better understand user behavior, cross-application usage and patterns, long term retention, and connect this data back to top of funnel acquisition and onboarding efforts, so that we can be more hypothesis and data driven. This means we are growing our data bridges across Adobe's flagship applications, such as Photoshop and World-class with other part of the ecosystem like Adobe Stock (one of the fastest-growing business units at Adobe), Behance (the largest creative group of over 50 million members where over the last year we have strategically shifted the platform to help drive creator livelihoods in addition to showcasing their work and being discovered), etc. What you'll Do Hire, lead, manage, and inspire a team of Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and Data Engineers toward business objectives and goals Define the data science, business analytics, product analytics, and marketing analytics vision, set the technical roadmap, and align it with broader business goals Develop key performance indicators and metrics to evaluate the efficiency of central initiatives, ensuring that all data-driven efforts result in tangible improvements in client outcomes Lead all aspects of the design, implementation, and maintenance of robust data pipelines and infrastructure - part of this will be to assess what already exists within Adobe and determine how to integrate existing tooling or if we need to build new applications Work closely with product and marketing teams to advise, define, and prioritize roadmaps and features Work with finance to build financial models and forecasting tools that support decision-making and business growth, focusing on risk management, budgeting, and long-term financial planning Work closely with cross-functional collaborators to ensure that data-driven insights directly inform of strategic priorities Provide insights based on behavioral and commercial data to support marketing strategies, content optimization, and user engagement initiatives. Areas of interest include Churn Analysis, Lifetime Value, Segmentation, and Attribution Modelling What you need to succeed BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (MS is a plus) 15+ years of hands-on experience in BI / analytics and data architecture 5+ years of experience leading business intelligence, analytics, and data engineering teams-including managing managers on large teams Expertise in scripting languages (SQL and Python), visualization tools (Tableau or similar, e.g., Power BI or Looker), and Web Analytics (e.g., Adobe Analytics) Hands-on experience with distributed data stores such as Data Bricks, S3, Presto, Hive, Spark Expertise in data modeling, database / schema design, ETL, and data management principles / solutions (Natural Language Processing & related AI/ML concepts a plus) Practical experience with product analytics and marketing / web analytics (search analytics is a plus) Excellent people management skills with a demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams Effective communication skills to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders 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 $197,700 -- $416,600 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). 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