Staff Designer

The opportunity

Adobe Design is looking for a Staff Experience Designer to join our Document Cloud team. You’ll be working on products such as Adobe Acrobat, Sign, and Scan (just to name a few) that are ubiquitous in the lives and work of more than 600 million monthly active users and span across a multitude of surfaces and platforms. As the fastest-growing cloud in all of Adobe, you'll be given the opportunity to design the future of documents for the everyday knowledge worker, solopreneur, and individual around the world.

The Document Cloud design team also has a strong legacy of innovation and continues to be recognized for groundbreaking work. We were honored in TIME’s Best Inventions in 2023 for our advancements in Liquid Mode, and again in 2024 for Acrobat’s AI Assistant. If you're passionate about designing intuitive experiences at this magnitude, we'd love to hear from you!

What you'll do

• Design "simple, elegant & intuitive" experiences and interactions that bring delight and step change to users’ workflows.
• Apply a growth mindset to experiment on acquisition, monetization and engagement initiatives keeping user centricity at the forefront.
• Define design strategy, craft visions for products and experiences and share with senior executives using your storytelling skills.
• 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.
• Work closely with senior executives, product managers, senior engineering scientists, and partners across the company to bring new products to life.

What you need to succeed

• A minimum of 8+ 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.