Cassandra Piester is a Staff Design Program Manager at Adobe, where she manages Design Operations for the Pro Video space including Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects. She has nearly ten years of experience in product development, starting in Engineering Program Management, and later transitioning into Design Operations / UX Design Program Management at both Microsoft and Adobe.

Cassandra is an execution-focused program manager, and she specializes in design operations for emerging technology. She has shipped products on multiple platforms including AR / VR headsets, Desktop, Web and Mobile. Her experience spans consumer, enterprise, and creative pro products. On every product she has worked on, she has successfully developed and deployed a design operations strategy that empowers not only the design team to do their best work but the entire cross functional product development team at large. She is passionate about collaboration and believes teams do their best work when they understand one another’s roles, responsibilities, and areas of expertise.