The Opportunity

Join our team as Manager of CAI Community and help bring the power of Content Authenticity to Adobe products and the world through events, media, and marketplaces.

If you are excited by helping fulfill the basic right to know what the content we consume is, then this role is made for you. Lead and empower a team of accomplished engineers who are dedicated to delivering transparency, attribution, and provenance to all creators.

As an outstanding community leader and evangelist you are driven to focus on impact and quality. Your primary responsibilities will be to run the sizable CAI community efforts, website, events, and ensure measurable, increasing membership and adoption of everything in the Contentn Authenticity ecosystem.

This is an exceptional opportunity for profound impact within the news and creative industries, and to be at the forefront of the movement creating a more credible internet.

What You'll Do

Lead and develop a community strategy focused on C2PA adoption, awareness, and pragmatic tooling

Collaborate with product marketing to promote Adobe open-source tools alongside enterprise, paid offerings with clear swimlanes for each

Make data-driven decisions: about where to invest, design and execure measurement schemes to track progress and success

Advocate for marketing spend against clear adoption and awareness targets.

Manage external vendors to clear execution goals and a high quality bar.

Track emerging offerings in the provenance space

Market & Cultural Intelligence

Engage directly with creators and the broader creative AI ecosystem to surface insight, sentiment, and unmet needs.

Bring a forward-looking POV on where creative culture, AI, and the creator economy are headed—and where opportunities are emerging or underserved.

Synthesize market research, audience segmentation, and competitive analysis to identify strategic growth opportunities.

Convert fast-moving cultural signals and community intelligence into brand-relevant positioning, launch strategies, and actionable recommendations that inform product roadmap and customer experience.

Product Positioning & Messaging

Define and communicate culturally resonant value propositions for Adobe’s creator-focused products and initiatives.

Craft messaging and narratives that shift perception from “legacy and complex” to creator-native, culturally fluent, and AI-forward.

Ensure consistency of positioning and messaging across social, influencer, community, and product marketing channels.

Go-to-Market Leadership

Partner with product, other PMMs, and marketing leads to shape go-to-market strategies that break through with new-to-Adobe audiences through cultural marketing and community channels.

Ensure product launches and promotion reflect authentic creator insights and community sentiment.

Develop playbooks that regional and global teams can use to activate culturally-led growth strategies.

Driving Business Impact Through Cultural Relevance

Define how community engagement drives measurable outcomes including brand relevance, buzz, creator acquisition, and conversion.

Develop and implement campaigns and programs that deliver measurable return on investment, using data and analytics to optimize performance.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Influence

Lead cross-functional alignment across social, influencer, product, research, and regional marketing teams.

Review briefs and creative direction emerging from community and influencer initiatives to ensure cultural alignment and strategic rigor.

Present strategies, insights, and recommendations to senior leadership to influence decision-making and investment priorities.

Act as a key liaison between marketing, product, and community teams to ensure seamless collaboration.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

Exceptional strategic, analytical, and storytelling skills, with the ability to turn cultural and community insight into structured marketing strategy.

Strong creative judgment and credibility, with experience collaborating closely with designers, creators, and creative teams.

Deep understanding of social behaviors, network effects, and viral growth patterns, with the ability to partner with Product and PMM to translate product-led growth opportunities into community driven adoption.

Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, balancing scrappy execution with the ability to bring clarity through disciplined frameworks, playbooks, and plans.

Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives

Experience working within highly matrixed, global organizations and influencing senior team members.

BS Degree in Marketing, Business is preferred or 10+ years’ experience in Marketing or equivalent practical experience.

Deep understanding of how creative culture forms and how content travels across platforms globally.

Strong POV on AI, provenance, creative tools, and the evolving creator economy.

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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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.

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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 $132,100 -- $254,450 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 $175,700 - $254,450

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.

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California :

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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