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At a glance
Adobe is hiring a Senior Enterprise Technical Account Manager in Chicago, IL. It is a full-time role in Sales & Business Development, asking for at least 10 years of experience, first listed on November 1. The advertised pay is $117,300–$209,600 a year. Adobe has 99 other openings in the US, 3 of them in Chicago, IL. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 112 Sales & BD openings in Chicago, IL today; the typical one asks for 5 years and advertises about $165,000 a year at the midpoint.
How the pay compares
Adobe advertises $117,300 to $209,600 a year, a midpoint of $163,450 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is higher than about 54% of the 101 sales & BD jobs in Illinois that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $159,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and Illinois tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
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About hiring at Adobe
Adobe has 100 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 12 states. Most are in software & IT (22), data & AI (18) and product & design (9). The biggest locations are San Jose, CA (73), San Francisco, CA (41) and New York, NY (28). 4% of them are remote, 19% are open to entry-level candidates and 100% show pay. We collect Adobe's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Workday), never from job boards or agencies.
The employer's advert
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The Enterprise Technical Account Manager (eTAM) is a senior business-critical role responsible for overall solution health and maintaining a high standard of technical operational excellence to deliver customer value, accelerate solution use, and be the customer’s advocate with Adobe product and engineering.
eTAMs quickly grasp a customer's landscape, assess their maturity and solution lifecycle, and identify immediate, short- and long-term wins. You will share expert guidance grounded in Adobe and industry standards.
Consistent technical rigor, dependable solution health, and a focus on customer needs are central to this role. Building a clear technical engagement strategy — and following through on it — is how eTAMs help customers succeed.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver consistent technical excellence through early engagement and ongoing solution health monitoring
- Lead capability roadmap and discovery sessions with customers to uncover both quick and larger engagements that increase adoption and product use
- Identify technical risk by understanding customer use cases, and flag potential challenges proactively
- Increase product adoption through measurable engagements that build customer understanding
- Maintain regular communication with internal and external teams, consistently representing customer needs
- Engage with Director and VP-Level executives to translate business needs into technical and operational plans
- Manage all technical challenges and ensure customers tickets and issues are fully addressed and resolved with urgency
- Work hands-on with cross-functional Adobe teams to ensure customers are provided with the highest level of proactive support and technical strategy based on Adobe/industry standards
- Make sure customers are aware of opportunities available through the Ultimate Success program and customer alpha/beta programs, and help them take part
- Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, metrics, and prelaunch planning. Present clear data and insights to customer leadership
- Serve as the first point of contact for critical technical concerns, and coordinate resolutions with Adobe services, sales, product, and engineering teams
- Assess and document customers’ technical environment to reveal ongoing insights, improvements, and optimization opportunities
- Proactively recommend how new and existing features fit within customers’ environments, using industry and Adobe standards and proven methodologies
- Participate in customer-requested meetings, as well as strategic and quarterly business reviews (on-site and remote)
- Participate in project-based, consultant-led architectural and design discussions to ensure solutions are optimal for the customer(s)
- Continue developing your technical and interpersonal skills, and help mentor team members as needed
Requirements:
- 10 years of experience focused on building technology roadmaps, enablement plans, support and operations models in either a consulting setting or industry/client side
- 5 years in a start-up-minded environment, Fortune 500 company, or direct customer-facing consulting experience
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, information technology management, business, marketing/communications or related field
- Track record of leading critical customer conversations and bringing opportunities forward to build value and positive sentiment
- Experience building and delivering a technical health and enablement plan, and clearly articulate wins based on capability activation
- Deep understanding of how Adobe products fit together to deliver integrated workstreams that support adoption and account health
- Understand customer needs and organizational maturity, and tailor a technical adoption/enablement plan that fits
- Deliver value through product activation activities such as office hours, deskside coaching, value accelerators, and field engineering engagements
- Comfortable bringing opportunities to customers before being asked, rather than waiting to be prompted
- Demonstrated presentation skills, including comfort on camera and in front of audiences of all sizes
- Executive presence and direct experience building relationships with customer executives from Director to C-Suite
- Conflict resolution and negotiation skills
- Focus on resolving blocking and open technical issues quickly
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and resolve issues thoroughly, using peers and internal resources as needed
- Regular travel to client locations for planning sessions, QBR/SBRs, and relationship development (approximately 20-30 percent)
- Familiarity, awareness, or strong working knowledge of development methodologies and technologies.
- Experience and familiarity with at least one of the Adobe capabilities including Content, Data, or Journeys
- Experience with Adobe products such as: Adobe Analytics, Adobe Audience Manager, AEM, Adobe Campaign, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Adobe Customer Journey Analytics, Adobe Target, AEP, Adobe Realtime Customer Data Platform, etc. (certification preferred)
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.
Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com.
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:
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 $117,300 - $209,600 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 Illinois, the pay range for this position is $128,900 - $186,650
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.
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