Sr Director of Design, GenStudio

The opportunity

Adobe Design is looking for an experienced design leader to join our Cross-Cloud Platform & Product team to extend Firefly Enterprise and GenStudio across a multitude of surfaces and partnerships. This work will define the future of AI and automation for enterprise creative and marketing teams.

By infusing key functionality from Firefly, Workfront, Frame, and the Creative Products into collaborative and AI driven workflows, you will enable scaled production and accelerated marketing campaign delivery for organizations of all sizes.

This is a unique opportunity for a leader who thrives in a fast-paced, 0-to-1 product environment and is passionate about crafting intuitive, AI-powered user experiences at scale. You’ll collaborate across disciplines to bring bold ideas to life, continuously push the boundaries of what’s possible.

You are:

An experienced leader with a proven track record of successfully managing large distributed (and global) design teams. 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:

• Combine design vision and execution to achieve results. Apply critical thinking in line with organizational strategy to optimize Activation, Adoption and Engagement for Firefly Enterprise and GenStudio customers while elevating the quality of end-to-end journeys.
• You are dedicated to craft and simplicity. You have superb visual and interaction design skills and understand how to lead early stage and scale product development.
• You are an empathetic leader who fosters an inclusive and empowering environment for everyone to do innovative and impactful work.
• You will deliver products that serve a variety of personas including creatives, marketers, and technologist. Balancing experiences that work for everyone while designing products with purpose.
• Mentor and develop: Offer guidance and support to your team members, help them overcome complex challenges, encourage learning and growth opportunities, and assist them in setting achievable career goals.
• Learn and influence: Stay updated on industry and product technologies and trends. Be curious and explore methods, tools, and processes that improve and optimize how we approach editing, creation, and infusing AI value into our products.
• Define and drive design strategy for all of GenStudio and Firefly Enterprise selling it through to senior leadership and effectively drive many teams towards alignment through storytelling and influence.
• Collaborate and partner: Identify and prioritize opportunities in partnership with Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, and Research leaders. Build alignment and clarity between design and partner teams.

What you need to succeed

• Proven experience leading and managing design teams at the Senior Director or above level and managing multiple levels of managers. Your leadership will inspire the team to take action for better user and business outcomes. You will need to have excellent written, oral, presentation and storytelling skills to be successful.
• Drive product experience strategy, interaction design, and craftsmanship for a v1 product.
• Experience across multiple form factors as well as merging experiences, extensibility, and integrations. Balancing feasibility and coming up with creative solutions.
• Be a member and leader for the entire Cross-Cloud team. You have experience working with content strategy, research and program managers to get the best results from a highly diverse and cross-functional team within design.
• Agility to navigate within a highly matrixed organization, working through and across multiple teams, functions, and structures.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple SVPs, VPs, Senior Directors and present frequently to executive teams. Exceptional executive presence to influence others, from senior executives/C-staff to individual Growth practitioners.
• Ability to balance critical thinking at a high-level with providing mentorship to individual team members. Comfortable guiding your team through complex challenges and considering how organizational changes lead to positive business outcomes.
• Extensive knowledge of user-centered design principles, standard methodologies for UX/UI, information architecture, emergent AI-first design and the capability to transform business objectives into captivating designs.
• A history of innovative thinking and a passion for pushing design boundaries to achieve business objectives. Ability to tell compelling stories through making that drive influence and alignment.

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 $188,600 -- $385,900 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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Massachusetts:

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