Principle Project Manager

Join Adobe s Professional Services organization in Riyadh as a Programme Manager/Principal Project Manager Strategic Governance, where you will lead executive-level engagement, steer digital transformation governance, and drive the strategic value realization of Adobe s enterprise programs across the Middle East. In this senior individual contributor role, you will be a key advisor to C-suite stakeholders and VPs, ensuring that Adobe s platform vision, transformation roadmap, and Centers of Excellence (CoE) models translate into measurable customer outcomes.

We are seeking a Programme Manager/Principal Project Manager who can provide strategic oversight, executive governance, and multi-workstream orchestration for Adobe s most critical regional customers. This role goes beyond delivery execution: it blends program governance, stakeholder management, business value realization, and transformation leadership to ensure that clients establish the right operating model, capabilities, and CoE structure to scale digital experiences.

As a trusted partner to both customers and Adobe s sales organization, you will also play a vital role in helping account teams position the strategic importance of Digital Transformation Centers of Excellence, articulating how governance, operating models, and cross-functional alignment accelerate transformation maturity and long-term customer success.

Facilitate strategic workshops, steering committees, and cross-functional executive engagements to maintain alignment, de-risk delivery, and maximize value realization.

• Lead executive and strategic governance for Adobe programs across multiple enterprise and government clients, ensuring alignment with strategic business outcomes.

• Establish, guide, and mature Digital Transformation Centers of Excellence (CoEs), enabling customers to scale Adobe capabilities, institutionalize best practices, and build sustainable governance and innovation frameworks.

• Drive end-to-end program leadership, orchestrating multi-workstream delivery across Experience Cloud solutions, data platforms, content supply chain, and digital experience operations.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for strategic clients, building trusted relationships and ensuring business alignment

• Partner closely with the Adobe Sales team to position Adobe s transformation approach, ensuring customers understand the value of strong governance, CoE maturity, and structured transformation roadmaps.

• Monitor and report on program performance, KPIs, and business value impact, ensuring clear visibility to customer leadership and Adobe stakeholders.

• Ensure operational excellence through strong oversight of schedules, budgets, dependencies, risks, and delivery quality across all engagements.

• Drive account growth by identifying opportunities for additional services and value creation.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Global Services teams to ensure customer needs are anticipated and addressed with the right solutions and delivery approach.

• Support program innovation by identifying opportunities for optimization, new use cases, and maturity acceleration through Adobe technologies and best practices.

• Apply Adobe s services methodology, apprentice others in the methodology, and drive continuous improvements in our ways of working

What You Need to Succeed

• 10+ years of experience leading projects in a consulting and/or technology professional services organization

• Engaging people leader with demonstrable ability to lead and encourage teams

• Strong executive presence, including the ability to partner with and effectively influence client managers, directors, VPs, CMOs, and CXOs

• Proven organizational skills to plan