Sr Product Designer, Adobe Express

Adobe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 124,600 - 234,250; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Express is hiring a Sr. Product Designer to redesign how creators submit content and how it is displayed in conversational experiences.

You will influence engineering, product, data science, and leadership to champion experiences content creators need to succeed in submitting the most relevant content for end user to be inspired and empowered. Join a design-led team building agent-first workflows, search and discovery patterns, and scalable design systems using Figma.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product development experience with complex contributor systems.
• Expertise with agent-first or AI-assisted workflows in contribution and submission experiences.
• Proven ability to craft scalable, cross-product solutions.
• Deep proficiency in search and discovery, including keyword relevance and metadata strategy.
• Strong storytelling to articulate architecture to engineers and executives.
• Collaborative design leadership across research, product, data, and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end content submission experiences with agentic-first design.
• Design patterns for content discovery and prioritization based on user intent in conversational contexts.
• Communicate vision for search, systems, and data-driven design with diverse stakeholders.
• Lead tagging and attribution experiences linking submissions to downstream content management and display.

Skills

Product design leadership

Agent-first workflows

Search and discovery

Figma design systems

Storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Responsive prototyping

Tools

Figma

Job description

The opportunity

Adobe Express helps millions of creators worldwide design and publish content every day. To simplify and expand this ecosystem, we are hiring a Sr. Product Designer to redesign how creators contribute content to Express and how that content is displayed in the context of conversational experiences. Your work will effectively influence engineering, product, data science, and company leaders to champion the experiences content creators need to succeed in submitting the most relevant content for end user to be inspired and empowered by.

What you’ll do

• Own the complete content submission experience with an agentic-first approach. Radically simplify workflows and advocate for a streamlined creator experience.
• Design new patterns and frameworks for how content is discovered and prioritized based on user intent in conversational experiences.
• Share a clear and inspiring vision about search, systems, and data development principles with diverse contributor groups.
• Lead Search and Discovery Agentic Tagging and Attribution Experiences: Apply your knowledge of keyword relevance, metadata, and ranking to link submission experiences with downstream content management, curation, and display within the product experience.

What you need to succeed

• 5+ years of product development experience with demonstrated expert-level proficiency in complex contributor systems and an ability to innovate across ambiguous, open-ended problem spaces.
• Expertise with agent-first or AI-assisted workflows, especially in contribution, tagging, or submission experiences.
• Recognized expertise in crafting horizontal, foundational solutions that scale across multiple products or services.
• Deep proficiency in search and discovery systems, including understanding of keyword relevance, indexing, ranking, and metadata strategy.
• Proficiency in Figma (Variables, Autolayout, DevMode, Responsive Prototypes) and building design systems—consistently delivering solutions at the highest level of craft and fidelity.
• Strong storytelling skills—able to articulate large-scale building vision and frame complex architectural concepts for audiences from engineering to executive levels.
• A collaborative approach led by design: you champion the user in your product team, actively include research and business data to support creative thinking, and guide colleagues when suitable toward cohesive solutions.

Preferred Accessibility Design Skills

• Experience designing accessible and inclusive interfaces for people with disabilities.
• Understanding of applying WCAG conformance criteria in design, specifically testing comps, wireframes, and prototypes for accessibility standards.
• Accessibility certifications CPACC, WAS, CPWA, or ADS from the IAAP preferred.

About Adobe Design

Adobe Design is the multidisciplinary, global organization behind Adobe experiences. Our full-stack team includes design researchers, design engineers, experience designers, brand designers, content strategists, and program managers dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences for Adobe users.

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.

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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 $124,600 -- $234,250 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 $161,800 - $234,250 In Washington, the pay range for this position is $148,100 - $214,600

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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