Senior HR Business Partner Operations Manager

The Opportunity

In the role of Senior HR Business Partner Operations Manager, you will significantly influence operational success within the Business Partnering (BP) organization. You will report to the Director of Business Operations, Global Business Partnering & Talent (BPT), and collaborate closely with the HR Business Partner leadership team. Additionally, you will work with Centers of Excellence (COEs) to lead and expand operations for complex international initiatives. You will create and sustain a steady operational rhythm for the HRBP team, drive accountability, and support continuous enhancement. Your deep business insight and leadership in transformational change will enable you to assess business requirements, spot operational gaps, and turn challenges into prioritized, effectively implemented solutions that yield measurable benefits. You flourish in a dynamic, fast-paced global setting, always eager to learn and develop as the organization changes, while prioritizing the team’s and business’s needs.

What you'll Do

• Establish and manage the operational flow for a team of HRBPs, encouraging ownership and steady refinement in programs, processes, and implementation of key initiatives.
• Provide critical program management support to HRBPs, ensuring customer-centric and standardized HR program delivery to leaders throughout the business.
• Collaborate with the Director of Business Operations, Global BPT on annual planning and on advancing key initiatives throughout the global BPT organization during the year
• Collaborate with HRBPs and across COEs on cross-functional initiatives, ensuring alignment of resources to desired outcomes
• Identify, compose, implement, and scale initiatives, workflows, and technology improvements that develop HRBP efficiency and productivity.
• Coordinate and create dashboards, ad hoc reports, and insights on key employee and business metrics that illustrate impact and progress.
• Serve as a thought partner, guiding and developing the perspectives of key senior leaders
• Build effective, trusting business relationships across the organization to support Adobe’s strategic business direction in alignment with Adobe's Core Values

What you need to succeed

• 7+ years of experience in program management or business operations
• BA or BS degree in a related field; HR experience is a plus
• Remarkable capacity to establish, guide, and perpetually refine business operations and program management.
• Experience designing, implementing, scaling, and optimizing global HR processes and programs.
• Proven capability to develop connections and collaborations across all tiers of the organization, including providing guidance and persuasion to senior leadership
• Critical thinking skills to break down sizable problems into meaningful, actionable pieces, and leverage data to derive insights that inform business decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with solid attention to detail
• Excellent meeting design and facilitation skills
• Comfort with ambiguity, a can-do attitude, and the ability to adapt as business needs evolve.

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

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.

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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 $133,400 -- $248,400 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 $171,600 - $248,400


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:

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Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:

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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:

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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.