Staff Designer, Agency Team

The opportunity

Adobe Design seeks a Staff Designer to join our Agency Team. As part of a dedicated group of strategic designers, you'll tackle complex business challenges that shape Adobe's future direction across our product ecosystem. You'll work directly with executive stakeholders to identify key opportunities, drive alignment across business units, and help define priorities that will influence the creative industry's and Adobe’s evolution over the next 1-5 years and beyond.

What you’ll do

The successful candidate will be a strategic thinker who excels at both high-level vision and practical execution, with exceptional stakeholder management abilities and design craft. Our team operates in a fast-paced consultative environment, where we're empowered to shape strategy and drive change through compelling storytelling and evidence-based design thinking. You'll create strategic frameworks, research insights, vision presentations, and actionable deliverables that build alignment and momentum around transformative initiatives.

In this role, you will:

• Lead strategic design initiatives that address complex business challenges across Adobe's ecosystem, balancing long-term vision with actionable next steps
• Drive stakeholder alignment through compelling storytelling, strategic frameworks, and evidence-based recommendations
• Conduct and synthesize research to identify market opportunities, industry trends, and user needs that inform strategic direction
• Facilitate executive workshops and strategic planning sessions to align stakeholders on priorities and vision
• Create polished deliverables including strategic frameworks, journey maps, service blueprints, and vision presentations that drive decision-making at the executive level
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across business units to understand their needs and influence strategic direction
• Translate complex business problems into clear design opportunities, and design opportunities into actionable solutions
• Lead change management initiatives through effective communication and relationship building
• Serve as a strategic design consultant to Adobe leadership, promoting design thinking methodologies and user-centered approaches
• Serve as an ambassador of Adobe Design, promoting our principles and methods when working with other groups at Adobe.

What you need to succeed

Must-haves:

• Proven experience and/or training in design or a related field, with an emphasis on user experience, interaction design, or visual design.
• Ability to proficiently facilitate ideation workshops, cultivate the creative thinking process, build compelling presentation decks or videos, and present inspiring concept pitches.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication and storytelling skills.
• Excellent design craft and the ability to blend that with strong intuition for addressing business goals.
• A highly collaborative nature and proven ability to iterate through early concepts to bring a vision to life.
• Mastery of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and other design tools such as Keynote, Sketch, or Figma.
• Willingness and ability to contribute to the creative spirit of the Adobe Design team
• A real passion for collaborating across many subject areas!

Nice-to-haves:

• Prior experience working within a creative agency or enterprise creative team using lean startup style methodologies.
• Prior experience crafting design strategy for platform experiences and design systems
• Deep knowledge around and passion for accessible and inclusive design
• Understanding of Adobe's product ecosystem and the creative industry landscape

How to apply

To be considered for this role, please submit your resume and portfolio. We’d especially like to see strong systems thinking and how your work has evolved over time including examples of:

• Strategic frameworks and methodologies you've developed
• Complex problem-solving through design
• Stakeholder alignment and change management initiatives
• Evolution of your strategic thinking over time

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 $142,700 -- $265,400 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.