The opportunity
Adobe is growing its Design team focused on monetization and commerce experiences—powering how customers discover, evaluate, purchase, and manage Adobe products. This work sits at the core of the business, connecting customer value to revenue across a global ecosystem. We’re seeking a Group Design Manager to lead and grow a team of world-class designers and a manager. You’ll operate at the intersection of design, strategy, and business impact—shaping scalable, end-to-end experiences across the customer lifecycle. As a systems-thinking leader, you’ll set direction and enable your team to turn user needs, insights, and company objectives into high-quality UI and measurable outcomes. You’ll drive alignment across a complex, matrixed organization while fostering a culture of craft, innovation, and growth.
What you'll do
- Set and enforce the quality bar and strategy across all monetization experiences — acquisition, expansion, retention, and payments.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Staff, and Senior designers, plus one Product Design Manager.
- Drive the shift from execution to data-informed strategy: problem definition, opportunity identification, roadmap influence.
- Own squad-level product and engineering relationships for routine alignment and to influence the strategy.
- Partner with Sr. Staff Product Designers on innovation, cross-cutting quality and systems work — lateral relationships, not management.
- Translate the team's design principles — composability, E2E ownership, data-informed discovery, quality as a gate — into how the team actually works day to day.
- Communicate upward clearly: status, blockers, strategic risks, and team development.
- Bring clarity to ambiguity and focus teams on highest-impact work.
- Hire, mentor, and grow design leaders and teams; elevate UI craft.
- Lead AI-native workflows, scaling design-to-production (e.g., Figma-to-code, coded systems).
What you need to succeed
- 8+ years leading design teams in complex, matrixed organizations.
- Experience in monetization and commerce with clear business impact.
- Strong product and systems thinking.
- High bar for UI craft and design quality.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity and operate from strategy to execution.
- Excellent communication and executive storytelling skills.
- Experience hiring and developing high-performing teams.
- Proven ability to drive alignment in complex environments.
- Familiarity with modern systems and workflows improved by artificial intelligence.
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.
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:
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 $155,100 -- $293,800 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 $202,900 - $293,800
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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Colorado:
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