Manager of Engineering Program Management
Building the future of creative tools through leadership, execution, and innovation.
I lead the program managers behind Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Premiere Web — turning ambitious ideas into shipped, polished software for the world's storytellers.
Today I lead a team of seven senior Program Managers driving engineering programs across Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Premiere Web — Adobe's flagship video products used by millions of storytellers worldwide. The path to this seat ran through Audition, After Effects, and Premiere Pro as an individual contributor before moving into people leadership.
7 senior Program Managers
Senior PMs across Adobe's flagship video products.
ProductEngineeringDesignResearchLegalMarketingRelease
"Great programs are quiet — the work shows up, the team is steady, and the shipped product speaks for itself."
2018 — 2019
Adobe Audition
Program ownership for Audition's release engineering and feature delivery alongside Product, Engineering, and Design.
2019 — 2021
Adobe After Effects
Owned After Effects engineering programs through major feature waves and release cycles.
2021 — 2023
Adobe Premiere Pro
Program lead for Premiere Pro engineering — release execution, cross-functional alignment, and major initiative delivery.
2023 — Present
CurrentPremiere Pro · After Effects · Premiere Web
Lead and grow a team of seven senior Program Managers across Adobe's flagship video products. Set program strategy, manage talent, partner with Engineering and Product leadership.
Operational excellence
Led the rollout of a modernized release-and-roadmap system across Pro Video, replacing a patchwork of trackers with a single source of truth for engineering programs.
Product launch
Program leadership across the engineering teams bringing Premiere into the browser — the next chapter of Adobe's flagship video editor.
Generative AI
Drove the program for an AI-powered polish concept inside Adobe's video tools — taking customer-grade outputs from rough to finished with one assist.
Process & tooling
Modernized the legal review process for engineering features — turning a slow, ad-hoc workflow into a predictable, well-instrumented program partnered with Adobe Legal.
Internal platforms
Built (and continue to invest in) the internal dashboards and tools my PM team relies on to run their programs — from release health to dependency tracking.
Program strategy
Defined the program operating model my team uses across Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Premiere Web — rituals, artifacts, and decision rights that scale.
2023 — Present
Adobe · Seattle, WA
Lead a team of seven senior Program Managers across Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Premiere Web. Own program strategy, talent, and operational excellence across Adobe's flagship video portfolio.
2021 — 2023
Adobe · Seattle, WA
Program ownership for Premiere Pro engineering: release execution, cross-functional alignment, major initiative delivery.
2019 — 2021
Adobe · Seattle, WA
Owned After Effects engineering programs across major feature waves and release cycles.
2018 — 2019
Adobe · Seattle, WA
Program ownership for Audition's release engineering and feature delivery — established cadence and rituals adopted across Pro Video.
2015 — 2018
L4 Digital · Seattle, WA
Produced connected experiences for premium consumer brands. Led teams of designers, engineers, and creatives from concept through launch.
2014 — 2015
Starbucks · Seattle, WA
Contributed to digital product initiatives at one of the most globally recognized brands.
2013 — 2015
Deloitte Digital · Seattle, WA
Led digital programs for clients including Audi, Intel, and Symantec — from social listening platforms (Audi Pulse) to community-driven developer hubs (HTML5 Hub, Android Developer Field Guide) to charity activations (#GiftOfCode).
2015
Microsoft / 343 Industries · Redmond, WA
Drove campaign deliverables for Halo 5: Guardians — facilitating studio updates with level designers, art, sandbox, tech art, and playtest groups.
2003 — 2008
Microsoft Game Studios · Redmond, WA
Quality engineering across Halo PC, Project Gotham Racing 3 (Xbox 360 launch title, Xbox Magazine 'Game of the Year' 2005), Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna, and other published titles. Bug life cycles, regression, and black-box testing on Xbox, Xbox 360, and PC platforms.
Pre-tech
Earlier · —
Where I learned how to ask the right questions, follow the evidence, and stay calm when things get messy.
2024 · Adobe
FeaturedA single source of truth for engineering programs across Pro Video.
Led the rollout of a modernized release-and-roadmap system across Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Premiere Web — replacing a patchwork of trackers with a single, trusted view of plans, status, and risk.
2024 · Adobe
FeaturedAdobe's flagship video editor, in the browser.
Program leadership across the engineering teams bringing Premiere Pro into the browser — Adobe's bet on the next chapter of professional video editing.
2024 · Adobe
FeaturedFrom rough cut to finished, with one assist.
Drove the program for an AI-powered polish concept inside Adobe's video tools — taking customer-grade output from rough to finished with a single, well-placed assist.
2023 · Adobe
FeaturedTurning a slow workflow into a predictable program.
Modernized the legal review process for engineering features — turning a slow, ad-hoc workflow into a predictable, well-instrumented program in partnership with Adobe Legal.
2014 · Deloitte Digital
FeaturedA real-time window into how the world feels about Audi.
A social-listening platform that scraped the web to surface real-time public sentiment around Audi's latest models — beautifully and at scale.
2013 · Deloitte Digital
FeaturedA community for developers, built from the ground up.
A developer community for Intel that reached over 1.1M page views in its first year, with 5,500+ Twitter followers and 1,400+ Facebook likes — and it kept growing.
2014 · Deloitte Digital
Curated wisdom from leading Android experts.
After the success of HTML5 Hub, Intel asked us to build a second digital experience — this time for Android developers. 90,000+ page views and 65,000+ social mentions on Twitter.
2014 · Deloitte Digital
Featured$45,000 raised. 45,000 retweets. One cause.
Intel wanted to give back to the community while raising awareness for closing the gender gap in technology. We built #GiftOfCode — a campaign that turned every retweet into a $1 donation. Year one: $20K raised. Year two: $45K. Influencers including Jack Dorsey and Russell Simmons took part.
2014 · Deloitte Digital
An international video panel on the future of HTML5.
A 7-part video series for Intel that gave HTML5 evangelists a forum to debate the future of web development. 10,000+ combined views.
2014 · Deloitte Digital
Two videos that celebrated Symantec's new file-sharing platform.
Symantec hired us to launch Norton Zone, their cloud file-sharing platform. We wrote, cast, filmed, edited, and animated two videos that didn't just educate but celebrated the product.
2015 · Microsoft / 343 Industries
The next chapter of one of gaming's most important franchises.
Drove campaign deliverables for Halo 5: Guardians — the headline release for 343 Industries and a flagship Xbox One title.
2005 · Microsoft Game Studios
An Xbox 360 launch title and Xbox Magazine's 2005 Game of the Year.
Quality engineering on a launch title for the Xbox 360 platform — released one month after the console itself, awarded 'Game of the Year' (2005) by Official Xbox Magazine.
2003 · Microsoft Game Studios
Bringing Bungie's flagship FPS to the PC.
Quality engineering on the PC port of Halo — a title that became one of the best-selling, most influential FPS games of all time, with 5M+ copies sold by November 2005.
2003 · Microsoft Game Studios
An action-RPG expansion that earned 4.5/5 from PC Magazine.
Quality engineering on the Microsoft-published expansion to Dungeon Siege, created with Gas Powered Games and Mad Doc Software.
2012 · Personal
Co-founded a curated shopping site — before Pinterest was Pinterest.
A digital wish list of the items I'd actually buy from Amazon — a Pinterest board before Pinterest was a thing.
My career started in an unusual place — criminal investigations — where I learned how to ask the right questions, follow the evidence, and stay calm when things get messy. Those instincts have shaped every role I've held since.
From there I moved into software as a Test Engineer at Microsoft Game Studios, shipping titles like Halo PC, Project Gotham Racing, and Dungeon Siege. I went on to produce digital experiences for Audi, Intel, Symantec, and Microsoft at Deloitte Digital and L4 Digital, and contributed to launches at Starbucks before finding my home at Adobe.
Today I lead a team of seven senior Program Managers driving the engineering programs behind Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Premiere Web. My focus is the same one I've carried since day one: clear the path, raise the bar, and ship work that's worth being proud of.
I keep my hands close to the work by building. These are some of the apps and tools that live under team-yusky.com or in my own daily workflow.
A personal finance dashboard for tracking accounts, assets, and the long arc of net worth over time.
A traveling review of America's best chicken strips — part app, part excuse to road-trip.
Smaller tools, scripts, and demos that live and die behind a domain. The fun stuff.
The best read on me comes from people I've worked with directly.
Recommendations live on my LinkedIn — and I'm bringing the strongest ones into this section over time.
Read recommendations on LinkedIn →I'm always open to a conversation — about leadership roles, program strategy at scale, or how teams ship great creative software. The fastest way to reach me is below.