The Opportunity

The Director of Strategy & Operations, Global Talent Acquisition, will serve as a strategic partner and force multiplier to the VP of Global Talent Acquisition (GTA) and the GTA Leadership Team, helping shape organizational strategy, anticipate and work through emerging business challenges, drive transformational initiatives, and ensure execution against the highest-impact priorities. As GTA continues its multi-year transformation, this leader will support the strategy development and translate strategy into action — accelerating decisions, aligning resources, working through tradeoffs, and driving high-impact initiatives across a complex, fast-moving organization.

The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with operational rigor, thrives in ambiguity, and excels at building relationships and influencing outcomes across diverse partner groups without direct authority.

What You'll Do

Serve as a trusted thought partner to the VP of GTA, and will shape long-term vision, organizational priorities, and business strategies.

Anticipate emerging needs, surface risks and opportunities, and drive proactive decision-making across the leadership team.

Lead annual and multi-year strategy planning processes, translating business objectives into measurable outcomes and actionable plans.

Drive resource prioritization to ensure talent, budget, and capacity align with the organization's highest-impact priorities.

Evolve the leadership teams’ operating cadence and governance framework to increase effectiveness, accelerate decisions, and amplify leadership impact.

Establish and lead executive business reviews, strategy planning sessions, and operating mechanisms that create visibility and accountability.

Drive cross-functional initiatives across EX, Finance, People Analytics, Workforce Planning, and Communications.

Develop executive-level insights using data, market trends, and business intelligence to inform decisions.

Establish success metrics and performance frameworks that enable the team to evaluate progress and optimize performance.

Champion a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence.

What You Need to Succeed

10+ years of experience in strategic operational roles, partnering directly with senior leaders, with prior experience in Talent Acquisition preferred
Proven ability to build relationships, influence without authority, and lead change management initiatives
Strong program management skills across complex, matrixed operations
Analytical approach — able to break down large problems, derive insights from data, and translate them into action

BA/BS or equivalent experience in a related field

Comfort with ambiguity and strong attention to operational detail

Excellent meeting design and facilitation skills

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

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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 $151,800 -- $298,150 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 $205,900 - $298,150


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.

Director, Strategy & Business Operations - Global Talent Acquisition