Sr Design Manager, Document Cloud

The opportunity

Adobe Design is looking for an experienced design leader to join our Document Cloud team, working on extending Adobe Acrobat features and functionalities across a multitude of surfaces and partnerships. As well as infusing key functionality from Adobe Express into Acrobat to democratize beautiful designs for the everyday knowledge worker, solopreneur, and individual around the world.

With more than 750 million monthly active users, Adobe Document Cloud products (which include Adobe Acrobat, Sign, and Scan, to name just a few) are ubiquitous in the lives and work of more than 600 million monthly active users. Document Cloud also remains the fastest-growing cloud in Adobe.

The Document Cloud design team has a long and rich legacy while still being recognized for innovation year after year. We were recognized for TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023 with our work in Liquid Mode. That legacy of visionary experiences continues with, Acrobat's AI Assistant being named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2024.

Your role

We are looking for an experienced leader with a proven track record of successfully managing a distributed design team that works across large and small screens. You possess a strong business sense, display competence in driving quality experiences through your design leadership, and have a skillful approach to prioritization. You are driven by action and results, striving to deliver designs efficiently, analyze both quantitative and qualitative data, and iterate rapidly. Furthermore, you take full ownership of your responsibilities, excel in managing and mentoring others, and embody an entrepreneurial spirit that embraces learning from failures.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and GTM to define the key objectives and identify the most impactful features to build.
• Foster an environment of creativity, ingenuity, and forward-thinking to build valuable solutions for users.
• Lead and strengthen a team of designers to craft innovative and compelling experiences across platforms and surfaces.
• Build a successful, collaborative environment that encourages deep partnership with cross-functional teams and sets a high bar for design craft.
• Help teams understand quantitative and qualitative data that impact experiences and product decisions.
• Engage fluently with diverse partners and represent the team, and work with senior leadership at Adobe.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Experience with and passion for turning complex problems into simple, engaging customer experiences, building products that help people learn and increase their creativity and productivity.
• 5+ years of people management and leadership experience with a track record of success in hiring, training, and developing designers ranging from junior talent to top-tier professionals.
• Strong user and business acumen to align design decisions with business goals.
• Agility and perpetual learning to navigate the fast-evolving terrains of technology
• Experience working in large teams with many moving parts.
• Experience helping your team conduct research, present results, and develop plans to act on those results
• Deep expertise in problem framing from the customers’ point of view and solving problems through high design craft.
• A consistent track record of launching products that delight, innovate, and scale
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.

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, you must submit a resume and be prepared to present examples of your successful leadership, team development, process improvements, and organizational skills.

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 $133,100 -- $256,500 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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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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