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2027 MBA University Graduate – Product Marketing Manager

Adobe

San Jose, CAFull-time$98–184K/yrPosted 6 days agoStill listed 5 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$98–184K/yr
Location
San Jose, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Product Marketing Manager will shape strategy by understanding customers, analyzing competitors, and identifying opportunities in an evolving market. The role translates insights into compelling product stories and positioning, and partners across Product, Marketing, and Engineering to inform strategic decisions. It also develops recommendations and go-to-market strategies intended to drive product adoption, awareness, and business impact.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Customer ResearchMarket AnalysisPositioning and MessagingAnalytical SkillsProblem-SolvingWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationCreativityAdaptabilityCollaborationRelationship BuildingInitiativePriority Management

Qualifications

Full-Time MBA Enrollment2+ Years Relevant Experience

Full job description

The Opportunity As a Product Marketing Manager, you will help shape strategy by developing a deep understanding of customers, analyzing the competitive landscape, and identifying opportunities in an evolving market. You will translate insights into clear, compelling stories that connect Adobe products to customer needs and influence decisions across the business.

What You’ll Do

  • Research customer needs, behaviors, and market trends to uncover actionable insights.
  • Analyze competitors and market shifts to identify opportunities and inform strategy.
  • Develop positioning and messaging that clearly communicate customer value and product differentiation.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams, including Product, Marketing, and Engineering, to bring customer and market perspectives into strategic decisions.
  • Create compelling stories, recommendations, and go-to-market strategies that drive product adoption, awareness, and business impact.

What You Need to Succeed

  • Currently enrolled in a full-time MBA program graduating between December 2027 and June 2028.
  • 2+ years relevant professional experience
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn data into insights.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to simplify complex ideas.
  • Creative and adaptable, with curiosity and a willingness to test new approaches.
  • Collaborative attitude with the ability to build relationships across teams.
  • Self-starter who takes initiative and can manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

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.

Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email [email protected].

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 $97,600 - $183,750 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 $126,900 - $183,750 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 There is no deadline to apply to this job posting because Adobe accepts applications for this role on an ongoing basis. The posting will remain open based on hiring needs and position availability.

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.

How this job compares

Set against the 433 open Product Marketing Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$98–184K/yr
  • California median$152–209K/yr121 salary ranges
  • US median$140–193K/yr333 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $141K, is 23% below the California median midpoint ($182K) — in the lowest quarter of Product Marketing Manager salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 151 open Product Marketing Manager jobs in California and 433 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Product Marketing Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 384 postings).
Education
145 of the 433 open Product Marketing Manager jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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