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Director of Product Management, Adobe Lightroom Creative Pro
Adobe INC · 🇺🇸 Remote California
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 1,036 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 221 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Adobe INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles7 certified filings for “Internal Product Manager” (Project Management Specialists) in CA: $121k–$213k, median $210k. Most were filed at wage level IV (57%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Last confirmed live 1 day agoWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 1,036 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 221 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
The Opportunity Adobe Lightroom is the world’s leading photography ecosystem, empowering photographers to edit, manage, store, and share images across desktop, mobile, and web. As professional photography is reshaped by AI, automation, new client expectations, and a rapidly evolving competitive landscape, we are looking for a Director of Product Management to help define what the modern professional photography workflow becomes next. This is a senior individual-contributor role for someone with deep product leadership experience and demonstrated proficiency in professional photography. You will represent the needs of photographers currently engaged with Lightroom, helping teams understand where pros need more speed, quality, trust, creative control, and workflow efficiency. You will lead key parts of the Creative Pro offering plan within Lightroom’s overall strategy. Working closely with product managers, designers, engineers, researchers, product marketers, and advanced technology teams, you will translate real-world professional workflows into product direction, roadmap priorities, and shipped experiences. This role requires a rare combination of customer empathy, product taste, technical curiosity, strategic judgment, and senior-level influence. You will help shape how AI, agents, and new workflow innovations can make Lightroom dramatically more valuable to professional photographers while preserving craft, intent, and control. What You’ll Do Shape the Creative Pro product agenda • Lead key product strategy workstreams for the Creative Pro audience across Lightroom surfaces including desktop, mobile, and web. • Identify high-value opportunities across professional workflows, including ingest, culling, editing, retouching, masking, batch editing, collaboration, client review, delivery, and archive. • Translate photographers’ jobs to be done into clear product principles, requirements, priorities, and success measures. • Help define how Lightroom can offer greater benefits to working photographers over the next several years. Represent professional photographers inside Adobe • Serve as a trusted voice for working photographers across genres, including wedding, portrait, event, commercial, wildlife, sports, landscape, travel, editorial, and studio photography. • Build relationships with professional photographers, educators, creators, camera partners, and industry experts to keep Lightroom grounded in real-world workflows. • Bring hands-on photography fluency into product reviews, prototypes, roadmap discussions, launch planning, and executive conversations. • Help teams distinguish between technically impressive ideas and experiences professionals will trust in production. Imagine and ship new experiences • Partner with teams in advanced technology, design, and engineering to shape new capabilities into experiences photographers love and rely on. • Define how AI, agents, and automation should show up in Lightroom to save time, improve quality, reduce repetitive work, and expand creative possibility. • Balance innovation with quality, performance, reliability, transparency, and user • control. • Drive clarity and alignment across cross-functional teams, strategic forums, planning cycles, and executive discussions. Ground decisions in insight • Stay close to the tools, services, communities, and workflows professional photographers use today. • Develop a strong point of view on where Lightroom should lead, where it should partner, and how we can exceed expectations of our most advanced customers. • Connect customer insight, product quality, adoption, retention, monetization, and competitive differentiation into precisely structured product recommendations. What You’ll Need to Succeed • Proven experienc