Francis Crossman
Principal Product Manager Premiere Pro at Adobe
Richmond, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancis Crossman is a Principal Product Manager for Adobe Premiere Pro with nine years in software roles and over a decade of hands-on experience as an editor and colorist credited on 31 feature-length projects. He translates deep editorial and color-grading expertise into product strategy, backlog curation, and feature design—particularly around color science, HDR/WCG, and workflow efficiency—to keep Premiere Pro aligned with professional post-production needs. Known for spending time with users at NAB and IBC, he combines customer-driven insights with technical collaboration across UX and engineering to ship tools that actually speed up editors and keep them in the creative zone. His background as a journeyman technician and robotic camera operator gives him uncommon empathy for both live production and finishing workflows. Practical and pragmatic, he still edits himself and leverages that day-to-day perspective to solve real editorial pain points rather than theoretical ones.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Cinema production, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Cinema production at San Francisco State University
English
Github Skills (4)
posters7
api4
movie4
grid3
Github contributions (2)
franbot/MovieGrid-from-omdbapi.com-API
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:57 commits, 12 PRs, 47 pushes in 4 months
apimovieomdbapipostersgrid
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