Principal Experience Designer, Digital Video & Audio

Adobe; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to revolutionizing digital storytelling. This exciting role focuses on crafting innovative concepts in video, motion, and audio, allowing you to influence the future of creative workflows. Collaborate with diverse teams to visualize and prototype groundbreaking ideas while driving alignment across product and engineering partners. With a commitment to empowering creativity, this position offers a unique opportunity to shape how stories are told in the digital age. If you thrive in ambiguity and are passionate about strategic design, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Health Care Plans

Wellness Programs

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Professional Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related experience or degree required.
• Expert level communication and project management skills essential.

Responsibilities

• Craft visionary concepts for future video and audio experiences.
• Drive long-term strategies and identify new business opportunities.

Skills

Strategic Design Thinking

Storytelling

Project Management

Communication Skills

Mentoring

Navigating Ambiguity

Education

Related Degree

8+ Years of Experience

Tools

Adobe Premiere

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Audition

Adobe Photoshop

Keynote

Sketch

Origami

Figma

Job description

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The opportunity

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 a deeply innovative, proactive, strategic, and future-thinking designer who can envision what comes next for creatives. In a world where AI has completely changed the landscape for what is possible, you will have an incredible opportunity to completely rethink these workflows and shape the future of storytelling. You’ll closely collaborate with partners across various teams to discover, define, and build the most compelling experiences that will change the way people create with video, motion, and audio. Do you have a passion for storytelling and strategic design thinking & innovation? Do you enjoy working with many different stakeholders, rallying teams, and getting alignment behind a single unified vision? Do you get energized when working in ambiguity and uncertainty and bringing shape to new ideas? Come join us!

What you’ll do

• Craft best-in-class visionary concepts about the future of video, motion, and audio - then confidently and persuasively convince senior and executive leadership to make necessary investments and strategic pivots to achieve this vision.

• Develop and drive long-term strategies and proactively identify and explore unchartered business opportunities.

• Quickly visualize and prototype ideas to communicate concepts (via sketches, storyboards, high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, or animations) that explore new ways of working and push the boundaries of what is possible.

• Facilitate design sprints and drive alignment with product and engineering partners and designers from across Creative Cloud.

• Collaborate with prototypers, engineers, and researchers to understand the capabilities of new and developing technologies and emergent user needs.

What you need to succeed

Must-Haves:

• Related degree or 8+ years of equivalent experience.

• Experience with Adobe tools like Premiere, After Effects, Audition, Photoshop - and other design & prototyping tools such as Keynote, Sketch, Origami, or Figma.

• Experience mentoring, encouraging an inclusive and empowering environment for other designers to do innovative and impactful work.

• Expert level communication, project management and presentation skills.

• Confidence in communicating work at all levels of the organization, up to the CEO and comfort navigating ambiguity.

• Ability to proactively identify new business opportunities and function as a bridge between design and business to move large cross-team projects forward.

• Act on behalf of other disciplines: gather and prioritize product requirements, clearly articulate business strategy, and advocate for changes in roadmap.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Deep experience working with video, motion, and audio tools - either in the film industry or for personal projects.

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.

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 $173,400 -- $317,000 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.

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In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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