Sr Staff Designer, Monetization Platform

The opportunity

Do you focus on the interactions between experiences and look for the underlying systems in your design process? Do you drive collaboration across diverse partners, projects, and goals? Do you thrive in thinking about the future and planning accordingly? If so, this role will allow you to deepen your practice by understanding, crafting, and influencing the future of the monetization platform across surfaces and journeys.

We are seeking a forward-thinking Sr. Staff Designer to join the Monetization Platform Design team. From the smallest detail, to big-picture concepts, to long-term strategy, our work is put to the test by millions of customers across a variety of fields and experience levels every single day. This is an outstanding opportunity to influence customer experiences at Adobe with high impact and internal visibility!

What you’ll do

• Meaningful Ownership. Be seen as a leader and driver by guiding strategy and carrying out user experiences from concept to ship.
• Lead. Develop our future of commerce strategy grounded on innovative business models, internal and external research and a deep understanding of how will our different segments and offerings evolve and transact in the future.
• Systems Thinking. Evolve our Commerce platform by considering multiple touchpoints and systems to create cohesive end to end experiences across surfaces, apps, teams, and technologies.
• Simplify. Translate complex problems into ‘simple’ practical design solutions that are grounded in user research and data, while driving efficiency through composability
• Collaborate. Drive collaboration with multiple cross-functional partners, including product managers, engineers, marketing managers and other designers, across all levels of the organization.
• Visualize. Bring design to life. Articulate the need and proposed solutions through sketches, storyboards, hi-fidelity mockups, prototypes, or animations. Build adaptable frameworks to address upcoming platform changes that the team can use for implementation.

What you’ll bring to the team

Must-Haves

• History and passion for driving collaboration through design artifacts and unifying patterns across teams and products.
• Experience using design thinking and service design tools to tackle complex business problems.
• Experience (and a love of!) solving sophisticated design and technology problems using systems thinking and foresight.
• Experience driving collaboration on teams with many moving parts and partners
• Experience designing for SaaS products and enterprise UX, with specific experience in acquisition, expansion or retention or monetization A/B testing.
• A desire to go beyond pixels. You seek to have an influential role with the product team as a driver for design process and product strategy.
• Creative and analytical skills to facilitate research, synthesize and communicate insights that inspire design opportunities.
• Comfort giving and receiving critique in regular design and experience reviews. Strong prototyping skills, and the ability to find the right balance of fidelity vs. speed to reliably convey key concepts. Prototyping animations, interactions, and hover states is a plus.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Mentorship, management and leadership experience
• Service, ecosystems, strategic, or systems design background
• Platform design for a multi-product portfolio

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 your resume and portfolio. We’d especially like to see strong systems thinking, establishment of design systems, and how your work has evolved 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 $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.

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