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Industry Growth Solutions Program Manager - State & Local Government

Adobe Inc.
United States, Virginia
Apr 01, 2026
The Opportunity Adobe is seeking an Industry Growth Solutions Program Manager to own and scale partnerled growth programs for State and Local Government (SLG) customers, including state agencies, counties, cities, municipalities, and adjacent public entities. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on designing, operationalizing, and scaling partneranchored solution programs that drive measurable growth, reduce procurement friction, and enable consistent execution across SLG markets. The role operates with a high degree of autonomy and serves as a central connector across Adobe field teams, ecosystem partners, and internal stakeholders. This role is directly accountable for driving partnersourced and partner influenced pipeline, solution adoption, and execution consistency across State and Local Government. Why This Role Matters State and Local Government represents a complex, fragmented, and missioncritical market where partners play a central role in solution delivery and scale. This role ensures Adobe approaches SLG growth with repeatability, discipline, and strong partner alignment, enabling field teams and partners to execute consistently across jurisdictions. As Adobe continues to expand its Public Sector footprint, this role helps translate missiondriven SLG needs into procurementready, partnerled solutions that can scale nationally while adapting locally. The impact of this role will grow as Adobe deepens its ecosystem strategy and accelerates solutionbased growth in State and Local Government. What You'll Do Lead PartnerLed Growth Programs Establish and lead a partnerled growth PMO for State and Local Government solutions. Design, build and operationalize repeatable, partneranchored gotomarket programs aligned to SLG growth priorities and missiondriven use cases. Define and enforce delivery governance, including program intake, prioritization, partner roles, resourcing models, and execution standards. Ensure programs are reusable, measurable, procurementready, and scalable across diverse SLG environments. Activate the Field and Enable the Ecosystem Own field activation of prioritized partnerled SLG growth programs. Drive enablement sessions, activation planning, and execution cadence across the SLG field organization. Serve as the execution lead across sales, solutions consulting, product, partners, legal, contracts, government relations, and inside sales teams. Ensure partners are fully integrated into account planning, opportunity pursuit, and solution delivery motions. Partner Identification, Management & Solution CoCreation Identify, prioritize, onboard, build and manage strategic ecosystem partners aligned to SLG solution needs. Lead solution cocreation efforts, developing integrated Adobe SaaS + partner services offerings. Coordinate across system integrators and ecosystem partners to ensure consistent delivery methodologies, performance expectations, and customer outcomes. Actively shape partner readiness, specialization, and investment alignment for SLG growth programs. Procurement Alignment & Execution Readiness Align partnerled solutions to State Master Contracts, NASPO ValuePoint, cooperative purchasing vehicles, and local procurement models. Reduce acquisition friction through standardized procurement guidance, buypaths, and partnerready contracting assets. Measure Impact and Drive Continuous Improvement Own programlevel performance metrics, including partnerled pipeline contribution, win rates, and solution reuse. Manage initiatives from pilot through scaled adoption, optimizing based on performance insights. Share strategic insights with Public Sector leadership to inform ecosystem strategy and future growth investments. What You Need to Succeed 10+ years of enterprise SaaS gotomarket, ecosystem, or growth program experience. 5+ years supporting State and Local Government customers. Ability to stand up a fully operational SLG partner-led growth PMO with defined intake, governance and execution. Demonstrated experience owning partnerled growth motions, not just partner participation. Strong understanding of SLG procurement models and buying cycles. Proven ability to operate independently and influence outcomes in a highly matrixed environment. Preferred Qualifications Experience within a State and Local Government SaaS or consulting ecosystem. Experience managing SIled or ecosystemanchored solution programs. Familiarity with SLG contracting vehicles and cooperative procurement models. About Adobe Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. 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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 positionis $195,400 -- $320,450 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. In California, the pay range for this position is $221,300 - $320,450 In New York, the pay range for this position is $221,300 - $320,450 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. 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. 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