Sr Designer, Incubator Team

Adobe Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative team at a leading digital experience company as a Senior Designer. In this dynamic role, you'll collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to shape emerging products for the small business space. Your expertise in user experience and design will drive strategic frameworks and actionable deliverables. This position offers the chance to influence product direction and contribute to a creative culture that values your ideas. If you're passionate about design and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Qualifications

• Proven experience in user experience, interaction design, or visual design.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for stakeholder engagement.
• Mastery of design tools and ability to facilitate ideation workshops.

Responsibilities

• Design core user flows and features for new product initiatives.
• Facilitate brainstorming sessions and present design concepts.
• Build relationships with stakeholders to influence strategic direction.

Skills

User Experience Design

Interaction Design

Visual Design

Communication Skills

Storytelling

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Education

Degree in Design or related field

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Keynote

Sketch

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

Adobe Design seeks a Senior Designer to join our internal Incubator Team. As part of a startup-style multi-disciplinary team, you'll tackle an emerging product for the small business space. You'll work directly with your project team to identify key opportunities, drive alignment with concepts and storytelling, and ship brand new products and then help them grow.

What you'll do

The successful candidate will be collaborative and proactive, exceling at both high-level vision and practical execution with exceptional design craft. Our incubator teams operate in a fast-paced lean startup environment and are empowered to shape strategy and drive innovation through compelling storytelling and evidence-based design thinking. You'll create strategic frameworks, research insights, vision presentations, and actionable deliverables that build alignment and momentum around an emerging product space.

In this role, you will:

Design core user flows and features for a 0-1 product
Pair strong communication skills with a user-centered perspective to influence and persuade
Facilitate brainstorming sessions and cultivate the creative thinking process you're your team and related stakeholders
Create polished deliverables including vision presentations, journey maps, service blueprints, and detailed interaction flows that drive decision-making
Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across product, marketing, and engineering disciplines to understand their needs and influence strategic direction
Serve as an ambassador of Adobe Design, promoting our principles and methods when working with other groups at Adobe

What you need to succeed

Must-haves:

• Proven experience and/or training in design or a related field, with an emphasis on user experience, interaction design, or visual design

• Prior experience working within a startup, creative agency or enterprise creative team using lean startup style methodologies

• Ability to proficiently facilitate ideation workshops, cultivate the creative thinking process, build compelling presentation decks or videos, and present inspiring concept pitches

• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication and storytelling skills

• Excellent design craft and the ability to blend that with strong intuition for addressing business goals

• A highly collaborative nature and proven ability to iterate through early concepts to bring a vision to life

• Mastery of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and other design tools such as Keynote, Sketch, or Figma

• Willingness and ability to contribute to the creative spirit of the Adobe Design team

Nice-to-haves:

• Prior experience crafting design strategy for platform experiences and design systems

• Deep knowledge around and passion for accessible and inclusive design

How to apply

To be considered for this role, please submit your resume and portfolio. We'd especially like to see strong systems thinking and how your work has evolved over time including examples of:

• Strategic frameworks and methodologies you've developed

• Complex problem-solving through design

• Stakeholder alignment and change management initiatives

• Evolution of your strategic thinking over time

About Adobe Design

Adobe Design crafts tools that amplify the world's ability to build and communicate. We're a distributed 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 positionis $117,000 -- $227,500 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.

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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Massachusetts:

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