Rob Christensen

Rob Christensen Email and Phone Number

Senior Director of Product for Adobe Lightroom @ Adobe
345 Park Avenue
Rob Christensen's Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States, United States
About Rob Christensen

My passion is to build products that are loved and positively impact millions of customers. I'm especially interested in applying emerging technologies (AI, deep learning, computer vision, data science, and speech) with design to solve customer problems. Specialties: Product management, product development, user experience, design thinking, product owner, product roadmaps, software development, marketing, brand development, brand management, international, mobile applications, services, agile development, platform technologies, data-driven decision making, business requirement documents.

Rob Christensen's Current Company Details
Adobe

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Senior Director of Product for Adobe Lightroom
345 Park Avenue
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adobe.com
Employees:
51
Rob Christensen Work Experience Details
  • Adobe
    Sr. Director Of Product Management, Adobe Lightroom And Adobe Camera Raw (Acr)
    Adobe Mar 2022 - Present
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    I lead product management for Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). My team covers Lightroom Classic, Lightroom Desktop, Lightroom Web, Lightroom mobile apps (iOS, iPadOS, and Android), ACR, Lightroom for Apple TV, Vision Pro and supporting cloud services.
  • Geyserville Inn
    Marketing
    Geyserville Inn Jan 2000 - Present
    Geyserville, California, Us
    Help with family business.
  • Salesforce
    Sr. Director Of Product Management, Service Cloud
    Salesforce Mar 2017 - Mar 2022
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Led a team of PMs focused on a mission to help the world's largest, global companies with digital transformation using messaging channels. I owned the roadmap for rich messaging on digital channels including first-party chat (web and mobile SDKs on Android and iOS), third-party messaging (Facebook Messenger, etc.), and e-mail. Impact: Products are used by thousands of Salesforce customers powering 100+ million customer interactions per month. Partnering with product leaders around the company to extend our products to support new use cases including AI and industry vertical teams (healthcare, financial services, etc.).
  • Gopro
    Director Of Product Management
    Gopro 2016 - 2017
    San Mateo, Ca, Us
    Led a team of product managers focused on software that powers the HERO5 Black and Session. I owned the roadmap for: 1) Capture, the mobile app that allows customers to control their GoPros (over 10 million installs) 2) telemetry overlays 3) media offloading including automatic camera to cloud offload 4) AI-based automatic storytelling and 5) sharing to social networks. We partnered with design, engineering, and customers to envision new customer experiences and prioritized these into our long-term roadmap. The HERO5 is the world's bestselling action camera loved by millions of customers around the world. I had the pleasure of working with Nick Woodman, the founder of GoPro.
  • Samsung Electronics
    Senior Director Of Product Management & Strategy
    Samsung Electronics 2014 - 2016
    Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, Kr
    I worked as part of a multidisciplinary team (industrial designers, AI, mechanical engineers, visual designers, robotics experts, electrical engineers, etc.) to accelerate the creation of new products and ecosystems with a focus Internet of Things (IoT) and digital health. Presented product prototypes to Samsung CEOs and also showcases at events like Mobile World Congress and the Samsung Developer Conference.
  • Amazon Lab126
    Principal Product Manager, Kindle
    Amazon Lab126 Apr 2014 - Dec 2014
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    Led the device software product management team for Amazon's Kindle e-reader products including the awarding-winning Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Voyage. In addition, my product team supported international expansion, developed product roadmaps, and also championed new concepts for future products. In 2014, we helped launched the new Kindle Voyage and the all-new $79 Kindle with touch.
  • Amazon Lab126
    Sr. Product Manager, Kindle
    Amazon Lab126 Jan 2012 - Mar 2014
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    Key personal and team accomplishments: 2013-2014 • Launched the 2nd generation Kindle Paperwhite, which includes Goodreads integration, Kindle FreeTime, Kindle Page Flip, Vocabulary Builder and more; device was rated 9/10 by The Verge and 4.4 out of 5 stars by Amazon customers. Press releases: http://bit.ly/1irkieZ and http://bit.ly/17C0X3S • Expanded Kindle's international presence with launches in China and India • Drove cross-functional software roadmap meetings with partner teams and senior executives • Managed a PM team responsible for expanding international support and driving new software experiences 2012• Served as lead software PM for the 1st generation Kindle Paperwhite (rated 9/10 by Wired and The Verge). Press release: http://bit.ly/1dWq6K4• Partnered with UX and engineering to create requirements for new features including a major "touch-first" UI redesign, time left in book estimator, unlock experience, light control, overall device performance and more • Presented feature concepts and product roadmaps to senior executives including Amazon CEO • Worked cross-functionally with other product managers, program managers, engineering managers, UX teams and usability researchers
  • Adobe Systems
    Group Product Manager, Flash Player & Adobe Air
    Adobe Systems Jul 2011 - Nov 2011
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    • Drove roadmaps and new product releases for Adobe AIR and Flash Player • Managed a team of product managers responsible for core runtime capabilities including graphics, runtime updates and mobile technologies • Partnered closely with peers in engineering, marketing, program management and customers to deliver software on over one billion connected devices• Identified trends in the marketplace and competitive threats to create a multi-year strategy and roadmap* Adobe AIR runtime installed on over 100,000,000 Android devices
  • Adobe Systems
    Sr. Product Manager, Flash Runtimes
    Adobe Systems Nov 2010 - Jul 2011
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Responsible for driving the release roadmap for Adobe Flash runtime technologies (Flash Player and Adobe AIR). Working closely with Flash runtime product management and engineering as well as partners and customers to synthesize business requirements into themes for upcoming releases.
  • Adobe
    Sr. Program Manager, New Product Development
    Adobe Dec 2005 - Feb 2007
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Developed, implemented and supported a new product development methodology used by over 15 product development teams across all business units at Adobe: • Since launching in 2004, the program was adopted by over 15 product development teams applying the methodology including Dreamweaver, Flash, Flash Player, Acrobat Connect, FlashCast, Flash Mobile Authoring, Flex, Breeze, Contribute, Captivate and other products. • Led product development teams on over 200 worldwide charter customer visits validating new product concepts • Invalidated three product concepts early in the development cycle saving millions in development costs • Integrated a customer-driven requirements development framework process developed at Macromedia into Adobe’s Product Life Cycle (PLC)• Existing products using this method have seen upgrade revenues increase by 70% and overall revenues by 50%.
  • Macromedia, Inc.
    Cross Product Program Manager
    Macromedia, Inc. Nov 2004 - Dec 2005
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Developed and managed a standardized product development process used by over 10 product teams. Incorporated standard tools and templates such as a business plan and a product pitch. Worked closely with outside product development consulting team and senior management to evolve development framework. The customer presentation template was presented at over 600 customer visits to thousands of customers and prospects interested in next generation Macromedia product such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Breeze, Captivate and Contribute.
  • Macromedia, Inc.
    Software Developer
    Macromedia, Inc. Dec 1998 - Dec 2004
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Designed, prototyped and developed over twelve features for Dreamweaver MX and MX 2004 releases including server behaviors for ASP.NET, PHP, ColdFusion and JSP, tag editors, tag libraries, behaviors using Visual Studio.NET, JavaScript and XML, PHP, ColdFusion, ASP.NET C# & VB.NET and Perforce. Promoted from senior QA engineer.
  • Nasa Ames Research Center
    Web Application Developer (Symtech Corporation)
    Nasa Ames Research Center Apr 1997 - Jun 1998
    Moffett Field, California, Us
    • Architected and developed a web-based collaboration tool for NASA scientists cataloguing near-by star systems housing potential extrasolar (Earth-like) planets called NStars• Built, deployed and managed websites and applications with NASA scientists related to astrobiology and space sciences

Rob Christensen Skills

Product Management User Experience Mobile Devices Mobile Applications Agile Methodologies Scrum Product Development Software Development Program Management Strategy Strategic Partnerships User Interface Design Actionscript User Interface Product Marketing Enterprise Software Android Html 5 Mobile Technology Saas Css Agile Project Management Start Ups Consumer Electronics Software Product Management Software Project Management Competitive Analysis Cross Functional Team Leadership Management Leadership Project Management Software As A Service Lean Startup Iot Robotics Business Development Business Strategy Artificial Intelligence Mutual Funds Asset Management Salesforce.com Business Analysis Process Improvement Investment Strategies Asset Managment Series 7 Business Intelligence Tools Data Analysis Investments Investment Management Series 63 Series 6 Asset Allocation Equities Alternative Investments Securities Portfolio Management Business Intelligence Financial Services

Rob Christensen Education Details

  • Stanford University Graduate School Of Business
    Stanford University Graduate School Of Business
    Executive Education
  • Santa Clara University
    Santa Clara University
    Operations Management Information Systems

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