Sr Design Manager, Enterprise and Team Collaboration

The opportunity

Adobe's mission is to provide 'Creativity for All,' and Adobe Express is critical to achieving this mission! Express enables businesses of all sizes to create professional-looking designs and content quickly and easily, ensuring they stand out, stay on brand, and engage their audiences.

We’re seeking a Senior Manager, Enterprise and Team Collaboration to:

Lead the evolution of Adobe Express for team collaboration and enterprise users. Drive ground-breaking design initiatives for seamless workflows and scalability. Enhance interoperability with Creative Cloud, including controlled reuse, advancing co-editing, collaboration, approval workflows, and sharing capabilities.

What you’ll do

• Design for Scale: Drive the creation of solutions that are simple and intuitive for small teams, yet robust enough to meet the complex needs of large organizations.
• Grow and Lead a Design Team: Cultivate a user-centric design practice, encouraging a confident and visionary team with clear long-term and short-term objectives.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with product and engineering teams to explore opportunities for innovation and future technology.
• Elevate Design Strategy: Build a collaborative, high-impact environment, ensuring alignment across a complex product space and delivering cohesive workflows
• Champion High-Impact Projects: Jump into key workstreams, driving strategy and execution for transformative initiatives.
• Drive Design Process: Collaborate closely with program management to implement a robust design process across the team.
• Executive Advocacy: Represent your team and their work to Adobe executives, ensuring alignment with overarching company goals.
• Coach and Mentor Designers: Attract, retain, and develop exceptional design talent, encouraging a culture of continuous improvement.

What you need to succeed

• Empathetic Leadership: Foster an inclusive, empowering environment for innovative and impactful design work.
• Creative Workflow Expertise: Bring a deep understanding of creative workflows, ideally with personal experience in the creative community.
• Matrix Organization Experience: Successfully lead teams and navigate complex, cross-functional environments.
• Design Advocacy: Influence and champion user-centric design across product, engineering, and leadership teams.
• Critical Thinking: Collaborate with executives to address complex challenges, developing high-level strategies with a design-first approach.
• Collaborative Facilitation: Lead central initiatives, including design-thinking workshops, to align collaborators and foster innovation.
• Design Excellence: Approach problems from the user's perspective, solve challenges with effective storytelling and design skills, and communicate ideas with a clear, well-informed rationale.
• Communication Skills: Excel in written, oral, and visual storytelling to drive team and business outcomes.
• Lifelong Learning: Stay curious and adaptable in the ever-changing landscape of AI and new technologies.

How to apply

To be considered for this role, please submit your resume and portfolio demonstrating relevant work examples. If your portfolio is password protected, please include the password in your resume.

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 $133,100 -- $256,500 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.

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.