Experience Designer, Illustrator

The opportunity

Adobe Design, our 750+ person global experience design group, is looking for a Experience Designer to join the Illustrator team, part of the growing Creative Cloud business. We work closely with business, marketing, engineering, and research to deeply understand customer needs and deliver the industry standard in tools for print and digital media. We’re seeking a designer who thinks holistically and uses modern tools to evaluate concepts quickly. One with an inquisitive personality and the dream to evolve, craft and build for the future. Come help us build the industry-leading graphic design tool that lets Creatives design anything they can imagine.

What you’ll do

As an Experience Designer, you will design holistic experiences across many products and platforms while collaborating with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional partners. You will design "simple, elegant & intuitive" experiences and interactions that bring delight and step change to users’ workflows. Communicate design ideas at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and/or high-fidelity prototypes. Partner closely with the user research team and engage directly with customers to gain a deeper understanding of their goals, validate design solutions, conduct quick rounds of usability testing, incorporating results into your design process. The ideal candidate should have a strong design background and a proven ability to deliver compelling user experiences, work effectively in a cross-organization.Understand: Audit and evaluate current user identity workflows across the Adobe ecosystem.

What you'll bring to the team

• Solid background in experience/product design and systems thinking to solve complex business and platform experience challenges.
• Proven ability to deliver designs that meet user needs and drive business impact.
• Experience documenting and operationalizing design decisions for long-term scalability.
• Strong communication skills to clearly articulate strategy and solutions to cross-functional teams and leadership.
• Proven ability to own projects and drive alignment across multiple workstreams.
• Meticulous attention to visual and interaction details while crafting high-quality, user-friendly experiences.

What you need to succeed

• 4-5 years of industry experience in product design with a proven track record of success
• College degree or equivalent practical experience in design with an emphasis on graphic design, HCI, or related design field
• Experience (and a love of!) solving complex design and technology problems using systems thinking.
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to manage multiple workstreams
• Proficiency in Figma as well as Adobe Xd, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, or similar product design programs
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate a multi-level problem space and strategy behind design decisions
• Passion for understanding how creative people do what they do and how technology plays a role in the creative process
• Creative and analytical skills to advocate for and support research, synthesize, and communicate insights that encourage design opportunities and product strategy
• Experience working with existing research, conducting your own research, presenting results, and acting on those results
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Knowledge around and passion for accessible and inclusive design
• Experience crafting user interactions for automation and features driven by machine learning and artificial intelligence

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.

How to apply

To be considered for this role please submit a resume and online portfolio with examples of your product/experience design work. We are particularly interested in your process. It is very effective to include case studies that show off the evolution of your work. Early sketches, nixed ideas or challenges overcome are all encouraged artifacts. The journey is just as important as an extraordinary finished product.