Sr User Experience Designer

The opportunity

Adobe Design, our 750+ person global experience design group, is looking for a Senior Experience Designer to join our Creative Cloud team working on Adobe Illustrator. We’re looking for a Designer who is customer-obsessed and strive to create inviting, simple, and accessible experiences for the modern, connected world. The ideal candidate should have a strong design background and a proven ability to deliver compelling user experiences, work effectively in a cross-organization, and geographically distributed environment. If you are enthusiastic about solving user problems and big technical challenges, this is your opportunity to work with a truly outstanding team on some extremely exciting and forward-thinking projects.

What you'll do

• Design "simple, elegant & intuitive" experiences and interactions that bring delight and step change to users’ workflows.
• Approach problems holistically. Understand the demographics, needs, and behaviors of people who use Illustrator by exploring our quantitative and qualitative research. Solve for both business and consumer needs.
• Explore design ideas via sketches, storyboards, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
• Be an advocate for the user. Use customer feedback, research, and data analytics to discover unexpected insights and gain a deeper understanding of user's goals.
• Define design strategy, craft visions for products and experiences and share with senior executives using your storytelling skills.
• Work closely with product managers, senior engineering scientists, and partners across the company to bring new products to life.

What you need to succeed

• A minimum of 6+ years of industry experience in product design with a proven track record of success.
• Experience (and a love of!) solving complex design and technology problems using systems thinking.
• A history of close collaboration with design, product management, software development, and users from ideation through implementation.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate a multi-level problem space and strategy behind design decisions to stakeholders of all levels.
• Creative and analytical skills to advocate for and support research, synthesize, and communicate insights that encourage design opportunities and product strategy.
• Ability to proficiently facilitate brainstorming sessions, cultivate the creative thinking process, build compelling presentation decks or videos, and present concept pitches.
• The ability to collaborate and inform open-ended design projects that may be ambiguous or ill-defined in their early stages.
• Deep knowledge and experience across a range of design approaches, methodologies, prototyping, and wireframing.
• Proficiency in Figma as well as Illustrator, Photoshop, or similar product design programs

How to apply

To be considered for this role please submit a resume and online portfolio with examples of your product/experience design work. We are particularly interested in your process. It is very effective to include case studies that show off the evolution of your work. Early sketches, nixed ideas or challenges overcome are all encouraged artifacts. The journey is just as important as an extraordinary, finished product.