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Shamik Basu joins Adobe as VP creative cloud in India
Former Microsoft leader to steer flagship creative products and teams
MUMBAI: Shamik Basu has joined Adobe as vice president, creative cloud, where he will lead the company’s flagship creative products from India.
In his new role, Basu will oversee teams working on some of Adobe’s most widely used tools, including Illustrator, Firefly, Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro, placing him at the heart of the company’s global creative technology engine.
Basu arrives at Adobe after a long and influential stint at Microsoft, where he most recently served as VP, office product group. There, he drove improvements across core product fundamentals such as performance, reliability and user experience for widely used applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. He also played a key role in shaping an AI-first approach to product development, bringing new capabilities to users while rethinking how software is built at scale.
Earlier, as partner director of engineering for Microsoft 365, Basu led teams across India working on a suite of productivity tools and services used by billions globally. His leadership extended across products such as OneNote, Visio and Project, alongside cross-platform innovations spanning voice, video and cloud-connected applications.
His tenure also included leading product and engineering for Skype in India, where he helped scale Skype Lite, a lightweight app tailored for Indian users, driving it past 10 million installs. Prior to that, he held leadership roles across Visual Studio Online and MSN and Bing, where he worked on high-scale platforms serving hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
With a career spanning more than three decades in software development, product management and engineering leadership, Basu brings a rare blend of technical depth and product vision. His move to Adobe signals a continued focus on India as a key hub for building globally impactful creative tools.
As creative workflows increasingly blend design, AI and collaboration, Basu’s appointment suggests Adobe is sharpening its focus on the next wave of digital creativity, with India firmly in the frame.
