Staff Designer, Collaboration & Storage

We're looking for a Staff Designer to join the Collaboration & Storage Design team. In this role, you will help define how creative and marketing professionals collaborate with each other to create on-brand content at scale, leveraging Adobe's tools and AI technologies to curate, distribute, and reuse brand elements and guidelines.

As a platform design team, we are responsible for defining how the system works and designing experiences for Adobe's products like Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe Firefly, Adobe Express, and Adobe GenStudio. You will work closely with a broad set of cross-functional and design partners to create human-centric AI-powered experiences that free users to spend more time being creative. If you are a creative problem-solver who can work through complexity and ambiguity and is looking to tackle challenges with high visibility and impact, this role is a great fit!

• Simplify. Translate complex user needs into practical design solutions that are grounded in user research and data.

• Delight. Design and prototype elegant solutions that are usable, useful, modern, and accessible and that meet business objectives.

• Think in systems. Connect patterns across touchpoints and technologies to build cohesive end-to-end experiences spanning surfaces, teams, and workflows.

• Influence. Demonstrate thought leadership through collaboration with product and design partners and drive decisions through effective storytelling.

• Adapt. Stay curious and informed in the ever-changing landscape of AI and new technologies and anticipate how user and customer needs will evolve.

• Lead. Inspire teammates and forge relationships across the company.

• 6+ years of experience in product, systems, or interaction design, ideally across tools or platforms for creative professionals

• Exceptional visual, interaction, and prototype design skills, with the ability to think conceptually and strategically and operate at multiple altitudes

• Subject matter expertise in brands and brand systems

• Ability to work autonomously, prioritize for user and business impact, and keep multiple initiatives moving forward

• Expertise in Figma, our primary design tool; experience with Cursor.ai or other AI-powered design, prototyping, and collaboration tools

Preferred Accessibility Design Skills:

• Experience designing accessible and inclusive interfaces for people with disabilities.

• Familiarity with WCAG standards and testing for accessibility compliance.

• Certifications such as CPACC, WAS, CPWA, or ADS from IAAP are a plus.

To be considered for this role, please submit a resume. Include examples of work you feel demonstrates you have the skills needed to succeed.

Adobe Design builds 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.

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.

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Expected Pay Range:

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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