Principal Experience Designer, Digital Video & Audio
The opportunity
Our team is focused on helping people tell stories through video, motion, and audio. Through our products, we support a wide range of creatives - from high-end Hollywood professionals to emerging voices. We are building the tools that allow anyone to bring their ideas and stories to life. We are looking for a deeply innovative, proactive, strategic, and future-thinking designer who can envision what comes next for creatives. In a world where AI has completely changed the landscape for what is possible, you will have an incredible opportunity to completely rethink these workflows and shape the future of storytelling. You’ll closely collaborate with partners across various teams to discover, define, and build the most compelling experiences that will change the way people create with video, motion, and audio.Do you have a passion for storytelling and strategic design thinking & innovation? Do you enjoy working with many different stakeholders, rallying teams, and getting alignment behind a single unified vision? Do you get energized when working in ambiguity and uncertainty and bringing shape to new ideas? Come join us!
What you’ll do
- Craft best-in-class visionary concepts about the future of video, motion, and audio - then confidently and persuasively convince senior and executive leadership to make necessary investments and strategic pivots to achieve this vision
- Develop and drive long-term strategies and proactively identify and explore unchartered business opportunities.
- Quickly visualize and prototype ideas to communicate concepts (via sketches, storyboards, high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, or animations) that explore new ways of working and push the boundaries of what is possible
- Facilitate design sprints and drive alignment with product and engineering partners and designers from across Creative Cloud
- Collaborate with with prototypers, engineers, and researchers to understand the capabilities of new and developing technologies and emergent user needs.
What you'll bring to the team
Must-Haves:
- Related degree or 8+ years of equivalent experience
- Experience with Adobe tools like Premiere, After Effects, Audition, Photoshop - and other design & prototyping tools such as Keynote, Sketch, Origami, or Figma.
- Experience mentoring, encouraging an inclusive and empowering environment for other designers to do innovative and impactful work.
- Expert level communication, project management and presentation skills
- Confidence in communicating work at all levels of the organization, up to the CEO and comfort navigating ambiguity
- Ability to proactively identify new business opportunities and function as a bridge between design and business to move large cross-team projects forward.
- Act on behalf of other disciplines: gather and prioritize product requirements, clearly articulate business strategy, and advocate for changes in roadmap.
Nice-to-Haves:
- Deep experience working with video, motion, and audio tools - either in the film industry or for personal projects
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 $173,400 -- $317,000 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.
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In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
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