Head of Copy, Adobe Creative

Adobe; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Creative seeks a visionary Head of Copy to define the copywriting and narrative standard across Adobe Creative’s campaigns and experiences. Build a world-class internal copywriting practice, guide language across campaigns, product narratives, and live moments, and establish AI-enabled workflows with strong human judgment.

You will lead a multidisciplinary writing team, shape voice and naming principles, and partner with Brand, Campaigns, and Design to deliver distinctive creative

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in copywriting, narrative, or multidisciplinary creative leadership.
• A world-class portfolio spanning campaigns, multi-platform copywriting, brand voice, product storytelling, and experiences.
• Significant experience as an Executive Creative Director, Global Head of Copy, Creative Director, Head Writer or equivalent.
• Meaningful industry recognition through Cannes Lions, D&AD, The One Show, Clios or equivalent.
• A track record of building language and narratives for iconic global brands.
• Experience building and leading writing teams, not simply reviewing copy.

Responsibilities

• Set the Standard and Build the Practice – Define copywriting standards across Adobe Creative and establish a voice for AI-enabled workflows.
• Lead Writing Across the Work – Guide campaigns, product launches, and multi-platform language from concept to execution.
• Build a World-Class Writing Community – Recruit and grow a diverse team with strong feedback culture and growth paths.
• Advance AI-Native Writing – Define AI-enabled workflows while preserving human authorship and creative judgment.
• Represent Writing Across Adobe – Present language decisions to executives and ensure cross-functional alignment.

Skills

Copywriting leadership

Executive leadership

Brand voice

AI writing

Job description

Our Company

Empowering everyone to create. Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create and bring digital experiences to life. From creators and students to small businesses, global enterprises and nonprofit organizations, customers choose Adobe products to create, collaborate, grow, and build remarkable experiences. We are looking for curious, ambitious makers who want to help define world-class creativity in this new era. We believe the craft is more essential than ever while AI should help people create more, explore more, and unlock new possibilities while keeping creators at the center of the creative process. Adobe is amplifying human ingenuity with AI. Our Team Adobe Creative is Adobe’s in‑house brand‑creative engine, developing the ideas, campaigns, and assets that power Adobe’s brand and business. We are part of the broader Content & C organisation.

The Opportunity

Adobe makes the tools the world uses to create. Our own writing and storytelling should set the standard for what those tools make possible. Adobe Creative is looking for a visionary Head of Copy to define the copywriting and narrative standard for Adobe Creative’s campaign and creative work, and to build the copywriting practice, teams and culture that bring that voice to life. You will lead language and narrative across Adobe Creative’s output, from campaign platforms and multi‑platform storytelling to digital experiences, product narratives, brand films, and live moments. This is not simply a role responsible for reviewing copy or maintaining tone of voice. You will build a world‑class internal copywriting practice designed for how brands communicate today: a versatile team able to move from hero campaign spots to scalable copy systems across audiences, channels, and markets. Working upstream, you will establish the verbal principles, frameworks, and working practices that help Adobe Creative find stronger stories and language earlier in the process. You will translate them into tools, systems, and AI‑enabled workflows that can also create leverage beyond Adobe Creative through shared guidance, consultation and collaboration with teams across C &C, Adobe, and our agency partners. The Head of Copy drives Adobe’s identity architecture and core brand system. You own the copywriting practice and creative writing standard across Adobe Creative’s work, partnering closely with Brand on how Adobe’s verbal identity is expressed through campaigns and creative. You are a writer first. You still find the line, rewrite the script, and shape the story. Your authority comes from your creative judgment, your cultural intelligence, and your ability to make writing better.

What You’ll Do

• Set the Standard and Build the Practice – Define and hold the copywriting and narrative standard across Adobe Creative. Establish a clear point of view on world‑class copywriting in the age of AI. Build shared principles for narrative, scripts, headlines and platform‑native language, partnering with Brand on voice and naming. Ensure Adobe's voice feels connected and recognizably Adobe without becoming corporate, repetitive or predictable. Build frameworks, tools, and working practices that involve copywriters from the start rather than at the end. Partner with internal teams to document and encode craft into systems that support speed and scale.


• Lead Writing Across the Work – Lead copywriting and narrative from early creative development through final execution. Shape Adobe's most visible global campaigns, product launches, and high‑velocity work from Adobe Creative. Partner with the Head of Campaigns to create campaign platforms, headlines, scripts, and integrated language systems. Partner with the Head of Design to develop visual and verbal expressions as one connected creative system. Partner with the Head of Brand to translate Adobe’s verbal identity, naming principles, nomenclature, and tone of voice into distinctive creative expression across Adobe Creative’s work. Ensure strong ideas can move across channels, formats and audiences without losing their clarity, humanity or impact. Direct agency copywriters, brand film screenwriters, and specialist collaborators from a clear internal Adobe point of view. Hold externally produced copywriting commissioned by Adobe Creative to the same standard as internal creative.


• Build a World‑Class Writing Community – Build and lead a multidisciplinary team of campaign, brand, and multi‑platform copywriters. Build a strong leadership bench and clear pathways for copywriters to grow into creative direction and leadership roles. Recruit exceptional copywriters with diverse perspectives, distinctive voices, and strong creative judgment. Create a culture of direct feedback, high standards, experimentation, generosity, and continuous learning. Keep senior writing leaders close to the work and protect meaningful time for writing. Use flexible copywriters’ rooms within Adobe Creative for major campaigns and priority creative opportunities, bringing in partners from across C &C, Product and other teams when useful. Build relationships with writers across the organization, so language, tools, and creative learning are shared.


• Advance AI‑Native Writing – Define Adobe Creative's point of view on how AI changes writing, editing, authorship and creative development. Build AI‑native workflows that expand creative exploration without reducing writing to generated volume. Establish principles for evaluating AI‑assisted writing through originality, accuracy, voice, intention, and cultural intelligence. Define where AI can support scale and where human authorship and creative judgment remain essential. Partner with Product as a creative customer zero, testing emerging language capabilities through real work. Ensure teams understand responsible AI, provenance, creator rights and Content Credentials.


• Represent Writing Across Adobe – Represent Adobe Creative’s copywriting, voice, and narrative in executive and cross‑functional forums. Translate narrative and language decisions into clear, actionable choices. Advocate for Adobe Creative’s writers to be involved earlier in brand, product and creative development. Connect exceptional copywriting to audience understanding, emotional impact, brand distinction and business value. Present work with clarity, confidence, and conviction.

What You Need to Succeed

• 15+ years of experience in copywriting, narrative, or multidisciplinary creative leadership.


• A world‑class portfolio spanning campaigns, multi‑platform copywriting, brand voice, product storytelling, and experiences.


• Significant experience as an Executive Creative Director, Global Head of Copy, Creative Director, Head Writer or equivalent.


• Meaningful industry recognition through Cannes Lions, D&AD, The One Show, Clios or equivalent.


• A track record of building language and narratives for iconic global brands.


• Experience building and leading writing teams, not simply reviewing copy.


• Experience creating writers’ rooms or collaborative writing models.


• Exceptional creative judgment and the ability to explain clearly why writing succeeds or falls short.


• The ability to move confidently between a headline, a script, a multi‑platform response, a product story, and a verbal system.


• Experience developing brand voice, naming, nomenclature, and narrative frameworks.


• Experience directing agencies, campaign screenwriters, and specialist collaborators.


• Deep fluency with AI‑enabled writing and creative development workflows.


• A clear point of view on how AI changes writing practice, authorship and creative scale.


• A commanding presenter who can communicate the value of language and narrative to senior executives.


• A genuine and current understanding of culture, entertainment, technology, media, and creator communities.


• A track record of building multidisciplinary teams, developing future writing leaders and maintaining a high standard through speed, ambiguity and change.

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. Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. Let’s Adobe together At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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Expected Pay Range

The U.S. pay range for this position is $128,100 – $289,900 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. In California, the pay range for this position is $200,200 – $289,900. In NewYork, the pay range for this position is $200,200 – $289,900. 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 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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Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

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