Principle Growth Product Manager
6+ Months W2 Contract
San Jose, CA (Hybrid)

Here's how you'll become a key player with this opportunity:

Adobe Express is a core entry point for students discovering creativity, communication, and productivity with Adobe. We're looking for a Principal Product Growth Manager to lead end-to-end growth for student experiences in Adobe Express on a 6-month contract basis.
This role is about uncovering and scaling product-led growth loops within Adobe Express--driven by sharing, collaboration, templates, AI-assisted creation, and classroom workflows. You will deeply understand student needs and behaviors and translate those insights into product strategies and experiments that drive measurable impact within a defined time horizon.

Here’s how you’ll make an impact on the team:

• Own the student growth strategy for Adobe Express end-to-end across acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and advocacy during the contract period.
• Identify, design, and ship high-impact growth loops directly within Adobe Express (e.g., sharing, collaboration, templates, AI-powered creation, classroom workflows).
• Map and optimize the student journey across discovery, onboarding, learning moments, and repeat usage—reducing time-to-value and friction.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Data Science, Research, and
• Marketing to translate insights into shipped experiences quickly.
• Lead rapid experimentation, defining hypotheses, success metrics, and clear learnings to inform near- and long-term product decisions.
• Use qualitative and quantitative insights (funnels, cohorts, retention curves, research) to prioritize opportunities and influence roadmap tradeoffs.
• Operate at principal scope, influencing direction across teams while remaining hands-on with execution.
• Advocate for student needs across Adobe Express and related initiatives

Here’s what you’ll need to be successful in this role:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Economics, Design, or a related field.
• 8-12+ years of experience in product management, growth, or product-led growth, ideally in SaaS, consumer software, or developer/creator platforms.
• Proven track record of driving measurable growth through product changes, not just campaigns or surface-level optimizations.
• Deep understanding of growth loops, funnels, experimentation, and lifecycle metrics (activation, retention, engagement, monetization).
• Experience working across multiple products or platforms, influencing without direct authority.
• Strong analytical skills paired with excellent product intuition--you know when to trust the data and when to dig deeper.
• Comfort operating at principal level: ambiguous problems, wide scope, high impact, and executive-level communication.
• Passion for students, education, and creative/productive workflows, with empathy for how students actually work under real constraints.

Here’s what else might help you out:

• Experience with education, student, or freemium products.
• Familiarity with collaboration, sharing, or network-effect-driven products.
• Experience partnering with AI-driven features to unlock new user value.

Pay Range: 

$76.00 - $84.50/hour

Benefits That Matter to You: 

• NextDeavor offers health, vision and dental benefits for contract employees
• Paid sick leave eligibility is contingent on state of residence
• Optional 401k Plan (excludes employer match)

Ready to take the next step? Apply today and be part of a team that transforms businesses and fuels growth!

Apply with Pioneers here <https://nextdeavor.thepioneers.ai/jobs/d58910c9--principle-growth-product-manager>!