Principal Creative Higher Education Engagement Manager (UK)

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The Opportunity Adobe is seeking a strategic leader with deep experience in the creative industries to drive adoption and long-term preference for Adobe creative and generative AI workflows across top design-focused higher education programmes through faculty partnerships, curriculum integration, and industry workflow alignment. What You’ll Do • Academic & Executive Relationships: Build trusted relationships with faculty, chairs, and deans and advise on curriculum modernisation, generative AI adoption, and industry-aligned creative workflows. • Design Workflow & Curriculum: Translate real-world and forward-facing workflows into course and assignment recommendations that you deliver to faculty. • Generative AI Leadership: Guide responsible adoption of generative AI in design and film programmes and educate faculty and students on use cases, authorship, and ethical considerations. • Adoption Programmes: Design and scale faculty programmes, course pilots, portfolio initiatives, and industry-connected capstones that drive product adoption. • Training Programmes: enable and lead a team of training partners on top creative and AI workflows • Community & Evangelist Ecosystem: Develop advocates across faculty, industry practitioners, and creative technologists to scale reach and impact of our platform through trusted voices and peer-led adoption. • Cross-Discipline Account Strategy: Partner with Film, Video, and Motion evangelists to align institutional strategy, executive messaging, and cross-discipline creative workflow storytelling. What you'll need • Design Workflow Authority: Deep credibility in professional design workflows and creative production pipelines, with knowledge of the film industry as a plus. • Executive Influence: Proven ability to influence academic leadership and complex institutions. • AI Leader: Practical and informed perspective on AI in creative production. • Academic Experience: Experience teaching, lecturing, or developing curriculum in design education. • Community Building: Experience with pulling together a community of designers, faculty members in digital or physical forums. • Project Management: Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution—defining scope, aligning teams, managing timelines and resources, and delivering high-impact outcomes in creative and academic environments. • Credentials: 8+ years leading creative initiatives in industry and/or higher education. Degree or equivalent experience in a creative or design-related field; background spanning creative environments. As our many awards will tell you, at Adobe you’ll be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world. You’ll be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely. If you’re looking to make an impact, Adobe's the place for you. Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog, https://blog.adobe.com/en/topics/adobe-life and explore the fantastic benefits we offer at Rewards.adobe.com. Adobe is an equal opportunity employer. We hire dedicated individuals, regardless of gender, race or colour, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We know that when our employees feel appreciated and included, they can be more creative, innovative, and successful. This is what it means to be Adobe For All. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know

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