Executive Assistant

The Opportunity

The Executive Assistant provides strategic and high-level administrative support to executive leadership, enabling operational excellence and efficient business execution. This role is both tactical and strategic-balancing daily coordination with long-term planning, process improvement, and relationship management. The EA acts as a trusted advisor and operations partner, ensuring that leaders’ time and focus are directed toward the highest business priorities.

What You'll Do

Strategic & Operational Support

• Anticipate executive needs and proactively align schedules, priorities, and resources to meet organizational goals.
• Partner with leadership on business rhythms, including staff meetings, all-hands, and team offsites-driving agenda design, action tracking, and follow-through.
• Provide insight and recommendations to improve team processes, communication flows, and overall operational efficiency.
• Prepare and synthesize materials for executive reviews, leadership meetings, and presentations.
• Collaborate with finance, communications, and HR business partners on planning, budgeting, and organizational communications.

Executive Partnership

• Serve as an extension of the executive-representing their priorities, voice, and decisions across internal and external engagements.
• Manage sensitive information with the utmost discretion and handle complex, confidential matters with judgment and professionalism.
• Act as a culture and communications hub for the organization, driving engagement and alignment across distributed teams.

Administrative Excellence

• Provide comprehensive calendar management, travel coordination, expense processing, and event logistics for executives and their teams.
• Coordinate cross-functional projects, ensuring deliverables and deadlines are met with precision.
• Maintain and continuously refine administrative processes to increase effectiveness and efficiency across the organization.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal partners, other Executive Assistants, and external partners to facilitate seamless communication and collaboration.
• Partner with business unit and operations teams to complete initiatives and achieve results that impact both the immediate organization and related teams across Adobe.

What You Need to Succeed

• 10+ years of administrative experience, including 4+ years supporting executive leadership (VP level or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex priorities in a fast-paced environment with limited direction.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills, with the ability to anticipate issues and take initiative.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with proven diplomacy and professionalism across all levels of an organization.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and collaboration tools (Outlook, Teams, Confluence, Workday, etc.); familiarity with Adobe tools a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to influence culture and contribute to organizational success beyond administrative duties.

What Makes You Successful

• You think strategically while delivering flawlessly.
• You operate with grace under pressure and navigate ambiguity with sound judgment.
• You are a trusted partner who amplifies leadership impact and strengthens team connectivity.
• You bring curiosity, innovation, and continuous improvement to every aspect of administrative operations.

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.

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

If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

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.