Managing Partner

Overview

About the client....

Adobe is one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. Adobe empowers everyone — from individuals and small businesses to government agencies and global brands — to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. Headquartered in San Jose, California, and with a diverse global population of more than 31,000 employees, they achieved revenue of US $21.5 billion in fiscal year 2024.

Adobe has three major product lines:
Creative Cloud to unleash creativity, including famous apps such as Photoshop, Document Cloud to accelerate document productivity, including Adobe Acrobat, and Experience Cloud to power digital businesses, including Adobe Analytics. Adobe have been at the forefront of digital technology for over 40 years and continue to see rapid sales growth.

They are an exciting, dynamic company with a respectful internal culture based on their four key values:
Genuine, Innovative, Exceptional & Involved. From a marketing perspective, Adobe are one of the most sophisticated digital marketing businesses in the world. Their activity is split between upper funnel and performance budgets, and they invest circa $180m in media in EMEA alone. This model, with a country led approach, is called the “Power of One” and gathers all the capabilities of the Groupe under one roof, putting clients at the core of the organisation.

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. They give everyone – from emerging artists to global brands – everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! They are passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

Adobe is on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realise that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organisation, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

About the Team....

In 2023, Publicis Media won the Adobe business for Europe, APAC, and Japan. We have established the Adobe.pub team to act as a seamless extension of the Adobe marketing team. Adobe.pub sits within the Zenith Global team and benefits from the opportunity, infrastructure and culture of one of the best international agencies in London.

The EMEA team, which has 95 members spread across London and India, covers all EMEA activity, from establishing strategy to media planning, activating media across digital channels, and reporting on campaign results. We handle both performance and upper funnel activity and are dedicated to creating full-funnel strategies to maximise Adobe’s digital engagement.

About the role....

This is an incredible opportunity to drive growth and change on a fast-growing, game changing Publicis Media client.

As our client's business continues to mature we are seeking a Managing Partner, Performance to join our growing team and help our clients unlock the full potential of our performance planning capabilities. You will play a pivotal role in developing a world class communications performance product for our team and use proactivity to help clients to unlock new sources of growth.

About the work....

LEADERSHIP & TEAM MANAGEMENT

• Lead the Adobe.pub EMEA performance discipline, providing clear vision and direction to channel specialists and performance teams in London and the India Hub
• Set the strategic direction for the EMEA performance product across Programmatic, Paid Search, and Paid Social, covering the full funnel
• Develop and manage performance leaders across product groups, ensuring strong accountability, high performance, and effective succession planning
• Foster a culture of excellence, innovation, cross-channel collaboration, and operational discipline
• Represent performance at the Adobe.pub leadership level
• Act as a senior sponsor of the client partnership, working closely with the Global Client Lead and senior planning, performance, and strategy leads
• Translate complex performance signals and data into clear, actionable…