The Opportunity
Adobe Design is looking for a Senior Experience Design Contractor with 3D animation experience to join our 3D & immersive team. You will be designing a holistic framework for creating 3d animation, working together with research to discover new ways to solve user experience challenges and collaborate closely with our product managers and engineers. This is a contract position with the possibility for full-time conversion.
What you’ll do
- Create user experience goals, priorities, and deliverables that align with product milestones, coordinate multiple projects to completion, and drive adoption of user experience practices.
- Proactively engage with multiple project stakeholders, including product managers, engineers, and other designers in drafting & brainstorming initial concepts.
- Convey design ideas and end-to-end user experience via sketches, storyboards, hi-fidelity mockups, prototypes, or animations.
- Create designs that meet product objectives, fit within Adobe Design guidelines, and respond to user feedback and usability testing findings.
- Support development teams throughout the implementation cycle.
- Be an advocate for the user. Conduct primary and/or secondary research, as well as quick rounds of usability tests.
What you need to succeed
- At least 5 years of design industry experience in product/UX design or equivalent experience.
- A passionate experience designer with a proven track record of great designs and strategy that meet user needs, product requirements, and business goals.
- Ability to grasp the essence of complex design problems and user pain points, and translate them to practical design solutions.
- 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.
- Strong understanding of 3D animation tools such as Blender, Maya, C4D and/or Houdini. Familiarity with prototyping tools a plus.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication and storytelling skills.
- Comfortable working in a loosely defined agile and lean design environment.
How to Apply
To be considered for this role, please submit your resume and portfolio to 3dicontractor@adobe.com.
About Adobe Design
Adobe Design creates tools that amplify the world’s ability to create and communicate. We’re a global team of designers, researchers, prototypers, content strategists, program managers, and more who work across Adobe’s three product lines: Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud.