Experience Designer, Video Apps

The opportunity

Are you enthusiastic about the future of creativity and storytelling? Our Digital Video & Audio team 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, and our team is looking for an Experience Designer to help build the future of video editing and storytelling!

What you’ll do

• You will develop experiences to support new video editing workflows that help some of the world’s best filmmakers, editors, directors, and producers make their best work.
• Be a go-to subject matter expert in designing video editing tools and experiences
• Operate at multiple altitudes; move seamlessly from designing pixel-level details to high-level vision.
• Find opportunities to create simplicity out of complexity. Make a plan and take action in ambiguous circumstances.
• Explore design ideas via sketches, storyboards, wireframes, and prototypes. Use feedback and research to refine and iterate toward product objectives. Pair strong communication skills with a user-centered perspective in order to influence and persuade. Move from big picture, to tiny details with ease and grace.
• Dig in with prototypers, engineers and researchers to understand the capabilities of new and developing technologies to match user needs.
• 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.
• Proactively collaborate across multiple teams to align on strategy and extend design patterns.

What you’ll bring to the team

We are looking for someone who shares a passion for video tools and rigorous attention to design detail. We’re building and launching the next generation of professional creative software, and we need extraordinary talent to craft it. If this excites you, we’re excited to chat!

Must-Haves:

• Deep understanding of creative tooling
• 3+ years of experience and/or training in digital product design or a related field
• Experience with Adobe tools like Premiere, After Effects, Audition, Photoshop - and other design & prototyping tools such as Keynote, Sketch, Origami, or Figma.
• Video editing and/or content creation experience
• Passion for art, creativity, and empowering people to create
• Ability to tackle ambiguity and uncertainty
• Experience delivering intuitive experiences for complex and technical products
• Deep empathy for, and curiosity around the work of, creative professionals
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication and storytelling skills
• Good sense of design process, and ability to work quickly and nimbly
• A highly collaborative nature and proven ability to lead design strategy and execution
• Excellent design craft and the ability to blend that with strong business sense
• Strong attention to detail and ability to weave delightful design details into functional software

Nice-to-Haves:

• Prior experience crafting products for designers, artists, and other creatives
• Deep knowledge around and passion for accessible and inclusive design
• First-hand experience in a creative field other than software design (illustration, video editing, 3D-rendering, visual effects, publishing, etc.)

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 $95,100 -- $194,400 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.