Sr Product Designer, Incubation

Adobe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Design is seeking a Sr Product Designer to join the PDF Spaces incubation team within Document Cloud. You’ll help reimagine how users interact with documents, leveraging AI to create value across Acrobat experiences.

This is early-stage, exploratory work where you’ll define interaction models, build prototypes, collaborate with research and engineering, and ship meaningful experiences. Requirements include 6+ years in product design, a strong UX/visual portfolio, and proficiency with

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product design experience or related degree with practical experience.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong UX and visual design across responsive, multi-surface experiences.
• Experience in early-stage, exploratory, or 0-to-1 product spaces where problem definition is uncertain.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and progress without a complete brief.
• Strong visual and interaction craft with the ability to ship polished UI.

Responsibilities

• Explore ambiguous, early-stage problem spaces by generating concepts and testing assumptions.
• Build end-to-end flows, sketches, prototypes, and polished UI with appropriate fidelity.
• Simplify AI-powered capabilities into intuitive experiences for everyday document users.
• Champion a strong point of view grounded in user research and data; advocate clearly.
• Collaborate with research, product management, engineering, and content strategy to align on direction.
• Influence decisions with compelling storytelling and build rationale for partners and leadership.
• Elevate design quality and contribute to teammates’ growth.

Skills

UX design

Figma

AI/ML familiarity

Prototyping

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design

Tools

Cursor

Figma

Job description

A portfolio demonstrating strong UX and visual design across responsive, multi-surface experiences.

The opportunity

Adobe Design is looking for a Sr Product Designer to join the PDF Spaces incubation team within Document Cloud. You’ll work on one of the most ambitious new experiences in Acrobat reimagining how people interact with, navigate, and get value from documents using AI.

The Document Cloud Design team has a strong legacy of innovation. It was honored in TIME’s Best Inventions in 2023 for Liquid Mode and in 2024 for Acrobat’s AI Assistant. Fast Company also recognized it as one of the Top Most Innovative Companies in Applied AI. If you’re passionate about working at the frontier of what a document can be, we’d love to hear from you.

This is early-stage, exploratory work that actually ships. You’ll be defining the interaction model, not completing a pre-established one. This involves making decisions in uncertain situations, building prototypes to gain insights, and working closely with research and engineering to determine what is feasible and best for users.

What you’ll do

• Explore. Work in ambiguous, early-stage problem spaces generating concepts, stress-testing assumptions, and finding the most promising directions before a path is clear.
• Build. Develop sketches, end-to-end flows, prototypes, and polished UI — adapting fidelity to what the problem needs, not what’s comfortable.
• Simplify. Translate complex, AI-powered capabilities into experiences that feel natural and crafted for everyday document users.
• Champion. Develop a strong point of view grounded in user research and data, and advocate for it clearly, even when the direction is still forming.
• Collaborate. Partner closely with research, product management, engineering, and content strategy to ensure alignment on direction and progress rapidly from concept to testable experience.
• Influence. Drive alignment through compelling storytelling and present build rationale confidently to partners and leadership.
• Elevate. Uphold a high bar for designcraft and contribute to the growth of teammates around you.

What you need to succeed

• 6+ years of product design experience, or a related degree with equivalent practical experience.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong UX and visual design across responsive, multi-surface experiences.
• Experience working in early-stage, exploratory, or 0-to-1 product spaces — where the problem is as undefined as the solution.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to make progress without a clear brief or complete information.
• Strong visual and interaction craft, with the range to move from rough explorations to polished, shippable UI.
• Proficiency in Figma and ability to convey ideas through prototyping in Figma, Cursor, etc.
• Strong problem-solving skills and solid grounding in core UX principles and methodologies.
• Empathy for both customers and teammates, with a process rooted in listening and understanding.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex ideas verbally and in writing, at all levels of the organization.
• Familiarity with AI/ML-powered product experiences.

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 creates tools that amplify the world’s ability to create and communicate. We’re a distributed team of designers, researchers, 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.

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

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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 position is $124,600 -- $234,250 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 $161,800 - $234,250

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.

State-Specific Notices

California

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Colorado

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Massachusetts

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