Director of Design

The opportunity

Do you see endless opportunities at the intersection of creativity and marketing? In this role, you will shape the future of inventive thinking and interactive storytelling for Adobe’s worldwide audience. As a Director of Design, you will lead a passionate team to build world-class, logged-out site experiences.

You will bring together powerful capabilities from across Adobe to craft seamless, end-to-end user journeys. Partnering closely with cross-functional executives, you will provide strategic direction to elevate craft and resolve ambiguous problem spaces. Ultimately, your leadership will drive tremendous impact and uncover new ways to expand the reach of our tools.

What you’ll do

• Vision & Strategy: Define and drive the design vision for Adobe's logged-out interactive marketing presence, establishing a world-class craft bar that engages a wide array of audience groups.
• Team Leadership & Building: Act as a player/coach: rolling up your sleeves to prototype, craft, and experiment, while also elevating and mentoring a team of designers.
• Execution & Delivery: Lead end-to-end design across core areas of our interactive marketing sites. Partner with engineering to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and performant.
• Innovation & Experimentation: Champion an innovator's mentality: architecting prototypes and applying the latest interactive web tooling to push digital boundaries. Create spaces for rapid experimentation to evolve how our brand shows up online.
• Change Management: Passionate about Customer Needs: Translate evolving customer insights and enterprise feedback into actionable build strategies with a focus on short and long-term impact. Advocate for audience needs and ensure design decisions are grounded in real-world performance.
• Collaboration & Influence: Inspire change across every product group as a trusted interactive leader. Influence senior collaborators with compelling narratives, prototypes, and strategy docs.

What you need to succeed

• 12+ years in product design, with 5+ years in leadership roles.
• Deep expertise in the interactive landscape, modern digital tooling, and setting an uncompromising craft bar for consumer-facing brand experiences.
• Hands-on design and prototyping skills; ability to inspire by showing, not just telling.
• A proven background leading large interactive teams, ideally blending agency/studio leadership with in-house technology experience.
• Passionate about scaling and mentoring design teams; player/coach approach is essential.

Expected Pay Range:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $175,600 -- $327,800 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

State-Specific Notices:

California:

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Colorado:

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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:

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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.