Sr Staff Designer, Document Cloud

The opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Staff Designer to join the Document Cloud Design Team, focused on the Acrobat x Express integration.

Who we are

Adobe Document Cloud includes Acrobat, Adobe Sign, and integrations with Adobe Express. With over 650 million monthly active users, it’s one of Adobe’s most impactful and fastest-growing product areas. Our team has been recognized for innovation with TIME’s Best Inventions for Liquid Mode and Acrobat AI Assistant.

About you

As a key design team member and inspiring leader on this team, you’ll play an integral part in crafting the next generation of productivity tools at Adobe! We are working on projects that help people consume, comprehend, create, and collaborate on documents in new ways, including generative AI technology. If you are enthusiastic about solving user problems and big technical challenges, this is your opportunity to work with a truly outstanding team on inspiring and forward-thinking projects. You’re recognized as a design leader, mentor, and collaborator who can drive alignment across teams and influence product direction at scale.

What you’ll do

• Lead Strategic Design: Drive the design vision for Acrobat x Express, aligning user needs with Adobe’s business goals and technology roadmap.
• Prototype & Validate: Create high-fidelity prototypes and design artifacts to explore and test ideas, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Advanced Systems Thinking: Develop and evolve scalable design systems that ensure platform consistency and quality.
• Innovate with Technology: Explore and integrate emerging tools like Generative AI to craft the future of document experiences.
• Mentor & Influence: Guide designers across teams, fostering growth and elevating design quality through feedback and collaboration.
• Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with PMs, engineers, researchers, and executives to deliver cohesive, user-centered solutions.
• Champion the User: Use research, data, and storytelling to advocate for user needs and influence product strategy.
• Represent Adobe Design: Share your work and thought leadership internally and externally through presentations, publications, and events.

What you need to succeed

• 8+ years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating interaction design, systems thinking, and cross-platform execution.
• 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.
• Collaborate and inform open-ended design projects that may be ambiguous or ill-defined in their early stages.
• Deep knowledge and experience across various design approaches, methodologies, prototyping, and wireframing.

Preferred Accessibility Design Skills:

• Experience designing accessible and inclusive interfaces for people with disabilities.
• Understanding of applying WCAG conformance criteria in design, specifically testing comps, wireframes, and prototypes for accessibility standards.
• Accessibility certifications CPACC, WAS, CPWA, or ADS from the IAAP preferred.

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 $157,300 -- $292,200 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.