Group Product Design Manager, Assets & Brands

Adobe; Seattle, San Jose (WA, CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Design is seeking a Group Design Manager to lead a distributed team of world-class designers, shaping how brand and asset management experiences evolve across Creative Cloud and Experience Cloud. The role emphasizes strategic leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional influence in delivering customer-centric, AI-forward solutions.

You will set design standards, guide execution, and partner with product, engineering, and senior leadership to ensure cohesive brand experiences across

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience leading design within a matrixed organization.
• Deep understanding of creative workflows, asset management, and on-brand content creation.
• Ability to drive progress in ambiguous environments and influence multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Set a high bar for design excellence and oversee day-to-day team operations to deliver quality work.
• Identify uncharted opportunities and influence roadmaps and long-term investments.
• Foster a trust-based, collaborative environment with cross-functional partners to drive alignment.
• Hire, mentor, and retain exceptional design talent and lead evolution in AI-enabled work.

Skills

Design leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Mentorship & people management

Job description

The opportunity

Adobe is growing their Design team dedicated to crafting core brand and asset management experiences that empower individuals and enterprises to organize, protect, and showcase their creative assets. Joining this team offers an exciting opportunity to shape innovative solutions that are central to delivering consistent and engaging product experiences across Adobe's diverse portfolio. This includes designing intuitive tools for brand governance, asset libraries, and collaborative workflows that serve millions of users and organizations worldwide.

We are looking for an experienced and innovative Group Design Manager to lead a distributed team of world-class designers. You will tackle strategic challenges and empower your teams to deliver outstanding results. You will also evolve our cross-functional partnerships. In this role, you will help define how core asset and brand experiences evolve to meet new technological trends, shifting business needs, and the evolving expectations of our customers.

What you'll do

• Set a high bar for design excellence, from strategic framing to detailed execution, and oversee day-to-day team operations (e.g. syncs, critiques, reviews) to deliver high-quality work.
• Proactively identify uncharted business opportunities and pair high-level strategy with actionable execution, influencing roadmaps and long-term investment decisions.
• Foster a trust-based, collaborative environment that encourages deep partnerships across teams to drive alignment on key experiences.
• Bring chaos to clarity by connecting dots, mobilizing the team, and prioritizing the highest impact work.
• Hire, develop, and retain exceptional talent through mentorship and growth, and serve as a design leader who leads the evolution in how we work in the AI era.
• Champion creativity and innovation to experiment, prototype, build and deliver valuable customer-centric solutions.
• Represent the team and its work to diverse partners and senior leadership, modeling design excellence through clear communication and compelling storytelling.

What you'll need to succeed

• 6+ years of experience leading design within a matrixed organization, and a proven track record of success influencing across multiple teams.
• A deep understanding of creative workflows, ideally within asset management and the creation and consumption of on-brand content or a related domain.
• Agility player who thrives in ambiguity and can drive progress, build alignment, and adapt to evolving platform strategies, shifting priorities, and emerging technologies.
• High ownership leader who can balance strategic vision with execution rigor and can easily navigate both altitudes.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex ideas to different audiences and levels of the organization
• Demonstrated experience mentoring and fostering an inclusive environment that empowers designers to innovate and deliver impactful work.

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.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Let's Adobe together

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Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

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Expected Pay Range

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 positionis $155,100 -- $293,800 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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.

In California, the pay range for this position is $202,900 - $293,800In Washington, the pay range for this position is $182,500 - $264,250

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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