Staff Experience Designer

The opportunity

We are looking for a Staff Experience Designer to join us! Our 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. We are looking for high-craft, technically-minded designer to help us design the future of Premiere Pro, our flagship video editing application.

Are you passionate about video editing and empowering storytellers? Do you like designing creative tools with complex workflows? Come join us!

What you’ll do

• Work with a multidisciplinary team to conceptualize and design solutions to bring new video editing capabilities to Premiere Pro users.
• In-depth knowledge of user-centered design principles and best practices for desktop design.
• Present and articulate design concepts and decisions to stakeholders and executive leaders.
• Proactively engage with multiple cross-functional partners, including product managers, engineers, user researchers, and prototypers to bring your designs to life at deliver them to customers at a high quality bar.
• Convey design ideas and end-to-end user experience via sketches, storyboards, hi-fidelity mockups, and prototypes.
• Be the voice of the user, balancing product requirements, feedback from users, and business objectives.
• Collaborate with prototypers, engineers, and researchers to understand the capabilities of new and developing technologies and emergent user needs.
• Facilitate design sprints and drive alignment with product and engineering partners and designers from across Creative Cloud

What you’ll bring

Must-have:

• A degree or equivalent experience in a design-related field (HCI, interaction, visual), or comparable work experience.
• Detail-oriented and technical approach with exceptional problem-solving skills, capable of working independently.
• Enduring curiosity with a track record of shipping outstanding designs.
• Ability to grasp the essence of complex design problems and translate them to practical design solutions.
• Ability to proficiently facilitate brainstorming sessions, cultivate the creative thinking process, create compelling presentation decks or videos, and present articulate concept pitches.
• Ability to accept and design against feedback from colleagues in a rapid iterative design process, and effectively produce multiple highly polished and professional finished works under tight timeline.
• Proficient in fundamental visual & interaction design principles.
• Experience with Adobe tools like Premiere, After Effects, Audition, Photoshop - and other design & prototyping tools such as Keynote, Sketch, Origami, or Figma.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentations skills, with the ability to clearly articulate a problem space and discuss designs with cross-functional leadership teams.
• A deep love of design and a passion for empowering storytellers and video creators.
• Ability to function as a bridge between design and cross-functional partners to move large cross-team projects forward.

Nice-to-have:

• Deep experience working with video, motion, and audio tools - either in the film industry or for personal projects
• Enthusiasm, interest, and prior experience using AI in your design process
• Experience mentoring, encouraging an inclusive and empowering environment for other designers to do innovative and impactful work.

Preferred Accessibility Design Skills

• Experience designing accessible and inclusive interfaces for people with disabilities.
• Familiarity with WCAG standards and testing for accessibility compliance.
• Certifications such as CPACC, WAS, CPWA, or ADS from IAAP are a plus.

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 $142,700 -- $265,400 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.

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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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