Adobe
Remote California
+ 3 other locations
At Adobe,
we're
changing the world through digital experiences. Within Education, our mission is to empower institutions, educators, and students to create, communicate, and learn more effectively using Adobe technologies.
The Solutions Consultant
operates
within our SC organization. Working alongside our Account Executives and Customer Success Managers,
you will help institutions discover new
opportunities
with Adobe and realize the value of
their
digital, creative, and AI
ambitions
.
You'll build positive relationships with institutional
leaders and
develop strategic account plans. You will lead executive conversations on AI and transformation, and help customers build lasting impact across staff, students, and services using Adobe!
Across Adobe's Creativity, Productivity and AI portfolio, you will help surface new opportunities, deepen executive
engagement
and position Adobe at the center of ambitions transformation programs.
Travel requirement: Up to 50% travel to support customer engagements, industry events,
and thought
leadership programming.
What you'll Do
Partner with Solution Consulting peers to lead discovery and solution mapping on select strategic opportunities, anchoring institutional and pedagogical expertise directly into the Solution Consulting motion
Support Proof of Value and storytelling engagements on strategic accounts, translating institutional pain into the value narrative AEs bring to economic buyers
Develop value frameworks and cases that connect Adobe's creative, AI, and document offerings to institutional outcomes, student success, staff productivity, and operational efficiency
Represent faculty, student, and administrative perspectives in customer engagements and internal strategy discussions
Partner with CSM, PMM, and Marketing to ensure narratives and GTM messaging reflect actual pedagogical and institutional realities
Serve as an internal voice on AI adoption across teaching and learning transformation and institutional transformation, helping the team and customers navigate AI forward offerings (CC Pro Plus, Acrobat Studio, Firefly, Acrobat Express) through a pedagogical, strategic, and trust lens
Partner with the Customer Success organization on engagement approaches for Digital Literacy and Faculty Development, shaping how programming like workshops, institutes, and webinars drives institutional adoption
Maintain external relationships across the HED thought leadership ecosystem, and academic conferences
What you need to succeed
A decade or more of firsthand experience inside Higher Ed institutions, as faculty, in academic leadership, or in program administration
Established thought leadership in Higher Ed and digital literacy, evidenced by speaking engagements, keynotes, or published work
Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud and Document Cloud, or comparable ed tech platforms, with capacity to discuss specific product capabilities in customer conversations
Comfortable being the credible technical and institutional voice in the room with provosts, CIOs, and other senior academic leaders
Demonstrated ability to translate classroom and institutional realities into technology strategy and product positioning
Proven ability to build executive relationships and navigate complex organizations
Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder management, and the ability to work across Sales, Customer success, Solution Consulting, Marketing, and Partners
Skills we'd like to see
Familiarity with Generative AI and AI powered workflows in an academic context
Experience in Solutions Consulting, or Consulting role
What success looks like
You are recognized internally and externally as a go-to voice on higher education
Your input meaningfully develops how SC, AE, CSM, and PMM teams position Adobe to HED institutions
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.
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.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $199,700 - $334,150 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.
In California, the pay range for this position is $230,800 - $334,150
In New York, the pay range for this position is $230,800 - $334,150
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.
Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
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:
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