Rob Christensen San Francisco Bay Area
Making · Shipping · Repeating

Building products
used by millions.

Sr. Director of Product Management for Adobe Lightroom. Twenty-plus years shipping products at Adobe, Amazon, GoPro, Samsung, and Salesforce.

Rob Christensen
Rob Christensen Bay Area, 2026

I’ve spent my career figuring out what to build next — and getting teams excited to build it. Adobe, Amazon, Samsung, GoPro, and Salesforce along the way.

At Adobe, I get to work alongside an incredibly talented team of engineers, designers, and marketers who share a deep passion for photography. Together we build Lightroom — recognized as Apple’s Mac App Store App of the Year in 2024, with Lightroom Mobile also featured as App of the Day.

I hold multiple patents spanning voice-activated systems, digital content rendering, and robotics.

Outside of work, I mentor product management graduates through Stanford GSB and volunteer with the Pacific Beach Coalition. I'm also a maker at heart — I build projects with Arduino and ESP32 microcontrollers, wiring up sensors and writing firmware to bring hardware ideas to life. Lately I've been exploring 3D printing as another way to close the gap between idea and object.

App of the Year
Apple Mac App Store, 2024 — Adobe Lightroom
App of the Day
Apple App Store — Lightroom Mobile
Multiple
Patents in voice, content rendering & robotics
#1 New Product
Amazon Lab126 award for top new product idea
Mar 2022 — Now

Sr. Director of Product Management, Lightroom

Adobe

Leading cross-functional product teams driving Adobe’s photography products — including Lightroom and Photoshop’s ACR — from concept to global scale. Apple Mac App Store App of the Year, 2024; Lightroom Mobile featured as App of the Day on the App Store.

Mar 2017 — Mar 2022

Sr. Director of Product Management, Service Cloud

Salesforce

Grew Service Cloud messaging to 100M+ customer interactions per month across thousands of global enterprises.

2016 — 2017

Director of Product Management

GoPro

Directed the product roadmap in close collaboration with founder & CEO Nick Woodman, shaping vision and strategy for the HERO5 Black and Session software ecosystem.

2014 — 2016

Sr. Director of Product Management & Strategy

Samsung Electronics

Worked on early-stage product bets in AI, IoT, robotics, and digital health at Samsung’s advanced R&D group.

Jan 2012 — Dec 2014

Principal Product Manager, Kindle

Amazon Lab126

Lead software PM for the 1st generation Kindle Paperwhite (rated 9/10 by Wired and The Verge). Launched the 2nd generation Paperwhite featuring Goodreads integration.

I've presented at Adobe MAX, Dreamforce, and Google on the products my teams have built.

Adobe MAX
Adobe's annual creativity conference — presenting Lightroom's latest features to photographers and creatives.
Dreamforce
Salesforce's flagship conference — talking through how Service Cloud messaging was handling 100M+ customer interactions per month.
Google
Presenting on product strategy across hardware, software, and AI.

Whether you're working on something interesting, want to talk product, or just say hello — LinkedIn is the best place to reach me.

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