Lead Talent Partner, Executive Search

The Opportunity

Adobe is seeking aLead Talent Partner to lead highly visible, high-impact, and strategically critical executive and senior leadership hiring across Worldwide Field Operations (WWFO) Adobe's globalGoToMarketengine.

WWFO brings together Enterprise Sales, Customer Success, Professional Services, Solutions Consulting, Marketing, and Revenue Operations,operatingas an interconnected system responsible for driving revenue, customer outcomes, retention, andlong-termgrowth. The field runs with urgency and accountability, shaped by in-quarter pressure, customer commitments, and aggressive growth goals. Leadership hiring decisions within WWFO have immediate andfar-reachingimpact-affecting pipeline health, customer experience, field morale, and business momentum.

This role is designed for a trusted advisor who deeply understands how the Enterprise Field Engineoperates, how GTM functions interlock, how decisions made under pressure ripple across the field, and how the right leadership talent enables performance at scale. The ideal candidate brings a genuine love of the field, an instinctive grasp of enterprise GTM motions, and the credibility to partner with senior leadersoperatingunder intense timelines and expectations.

TheLead Talent Partner must excel at balancing speed with judgment-moving with urgency when the business demands it, while also having the confidence to slow the process, push back when needed, and protect hiring quality, diversity, and long-term success. This is about ensuring Adobe makes the right hire, not just the fastest one.

This role combines strategy, execution, and influence. You will personally lead complex executive searches, deliver actionable talent intelligence, and represent Adobe with exceptional discretion, judgment, and professionalism.

WhatYou'llDo

Lead high-stakesexecutive searches

• Own the full lifecycle of complex executive and senior leadership searches across Enterprise Sales, Customer Success, Solutions Consulting, Marketing, Revenue Operations, and other GTM critical functions

• Deliver excellence at speed whilemaintainingrigorous assessment standards and long-term fit

Operate fluently in the Enterprise Field Engine

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of how enterprise GTM roles interconnect, the pressures leaders face in-quarter, and how talent decisions directlyimpactrevenue, customer outcomes, and field morale

• Anticipate downstream implications of leadership hires across the broader field ecosystem

Balance urgency with judgment

• Navigate time-sensitive, high-pressure hiring scenarios with calm, strategic decision-making

• Confidently push back when needed, slowing the process to ensure quality, diversity, and long-term success, whilemaintainingcredibility with leaders who areoperatingat speed

Influence andadvisesenior leadership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to Enterprise GTM executives, setting expectations, shaping hiring strategies, and advising on tradeoffs between speed, scope, and talent quality

• Represent Talent Acquisition with authority in executive forums, influencing outcomes through insight rather than process

Provide actionable talent intelligence

• Deliver real-time insights on talent markets, competitor hiring strategies, compensation structures, role design, and talent availability across geographies

• Help leaders make forward-looking decisions that align talent strategy with revenue growth and long-term business priorities

Build and sustain strategic pipelines

• Developproactive talentpipelines leadership roles

• Proactivelyanticipateand consult business leaders onfuturetalentneeds tied to growth plans, market expansion, and organizational evolution

Foster trusted relationships

• Build deep credibility with internal partners, candidates, and external industry leaders

• Operate with the highest levels of discretion, particularly in confidential, sensitive, or pre-announcement searches

What Is Needed to Succeed

• 8+ years of executive or senior leadership recruiting experience, with significant focus on Enterprise GTM roles in a fast-paced technology environment

• Deep, firsthand understanding of Enterprise field organizations and how sales, customer success, and supporting GTM functionsoperatetogether

• Proven ability tooperatecredibly with Enterprise Sales and GTM executives under pressure

• Strong judgment and confidence to balance speed with quality, including the ability to challenge leaders constructively

• Track recordof navigating high-stakes, ambiguous situations with discretion, influence, and sound decision-making

• Expertisein executive compensation, leveling, and complex offer negotiations within GTM organizations

• Exceptional management skills across key partners in a matrixed, global environment

• Consultative, data-informed approach paired with strong intuition and pattern recognition

• Demonstrated ability to mentor others and elevate executive hiring standards across an organization

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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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:

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.

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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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