Principal Creative Higher Education Engagement Manager

The Opportunity

Adobe is seeking a strategic leader with deep experience in the creative industries to drive adoption and long-term preference for Adobe creative and generative AI workflows across top design-focused higher education programmes through faculty partnerships, curriculum integration, and industry workflow alignment.

What You’ll Do

• Academic & Executive Relationships: Build trusted relationships with faculty, chairs, and deans and advise on curriculum modernisation, generative AI adoption, and industry-aligned creative workflows.

• Design Workflow & Curriculum: Translate real-world and forward-facing workflows into course and assignment recommendations that you deliver to faculty.

• Generative AI Leadership: Guide responsible adoption of generative AI in design and film programmes and educate faculty and students on use cases, authorship, and ethical considerations.

• Adoption Programmes: Design and scale faculty programmes, course pilots, portfolio initiatives, and industry-connected capstones that drive product adoption.

• Training Programmes: enable and lead a team of training partners on top creative and AI workflows

• Community & Evangelist Ecosystem: Develop advocates across faculty, industry practitioners, and creative technologists to scale reach and impact of our platform through trusted voices and peer-led adoption.

• Cross-Discipline Account Strategy: Partner with Film, Video, and Motion evangelists to align institutional strategy, executive messaging, and cross-discipline creative workflow storytelling.

What you'll need

• Design Workflow Authority: Deep credibility in professional design workflows and creative production pipelines, with knowledge of the film industry as a plus.

• Executive Influence: Proven ability to influence academic leadership and complex institutions.

• AI Leader: Practical and informed perspective on AI in creative production.

• Academic Experience: Experience teaching, lecturing, or developing curriculum in design education.

• Community Building: Experience with pulling together a community of designers, faculty members in digital or physical forums.

• Project Management: Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution—defining scope, aligning teams, managing timelines and resources, and delivering high-impact outcomes in creative and academic environments.

• Credentials: 8+ years leading creative initiatives in industry and/or higher education. Degree or equivalent experience in a creative or design-related field; background spanning creative environments.

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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. 

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