Creative Director, Social

The opportunity

The Creative Director for the Social Creative Studio will define and drive the overarching creative vision for an Adobe social audience across channels and audiences. This creative leader will set the bar for breakthrough storytelling, platform-first creativity, and ensure Adobe shows up in culture with relevance and impact. The role will collaborate with a multidisciplinary creative team, strategists, influencer marketers, and cross-functional brand teams to make work that inspires creators, creative pros, and communities worldwide.

What you’ll do

• Lead the creative vision, tone, and aesthetic direction for Adobe’s social storytelling across products and brand campaigns for a specified audience
• Translate brand narratives and cultural insights into bold, platform-first creative that drives engagement, share of voice, and brand love.
• Work with the Social Creative Studio team (art directors, designers, writers, editors) to consistently deliver world-class creative.
• Partner with strategic leads to ensure creative work ladders up to business priorities, product launches, and cultural tentpoles.
• Champion experimentation with emerging platforms, formats, and technologies—including generative AI and creator-led storytelling.
• Build and maintain a consistent but evolving visual and creative identity across Adobe’s global social ecosystem.
• Direct agency partners and external creators, ensuring alignment with Adobe’s creative standards and brand voice.
• Foster a culture of creativity, inclusion, and craft excellence within the studio, inspiring the team to push boundaries and innovate.
• Act as a key creative partner across the business, ensuring social-first creative is integrated into larger brand and product initiatives.

What you need to succeed

• Significant experience as a Creative Director or equivalent senior creative leadership role, ideally within social, digital, or creative agency environments.
• An exceptional portfolio showcasing conceptual leadership, art direction, and storytelling across social and digital platforms.
• Strong expertise in social-first creative, including motion, video, design, copywriting, and platform-native innovation.
• Deep understanding of cultural trends, creator communities, and how brands can authentically participate.
• Experience leading integrated campaigns and presenting creative direction to senior collaborators.
• Ability to balance visionary big-idea thinking with the operational realities of fast-paced social environments.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills, with a proven ability to mentor and inspire diverse creative teams.
• Passion for design, storytelling, and the power of social to connect culture, community, and creativity.

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 $144,000 -- $189,550 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.