The opportunity
Adobe is seeking a Group Manager of UX Research to guide hardworking researchers working within the Document Cloud portfolio. In this role, you will shape research direction across key product areas—including Acrobat, PDF Spaces, and emerging AI‑powered workflows—while partnering closely with Design, Product, and Engineering. You’ll help your team deliver high‑quality insights, strengthen research craft, and ensure that user understanding drives product decisions across platforms.
This role is ideal for a manager who is passionate about elevating research impact, building strong cross‑functional relationships, and enabling teams to thrive in complex, fast paced environments.
What you’ll do
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of UX researchers and strategists, encouraging a culture of curiosity, rigor, and continuous learning.
- Attract and hire strong research talent, ensuring a diverse and inclusive team with a high bar for craft.
- Drive research planning and execution across multiple product areas, ensuring high‑quality insights that inform product roadmaps, 1.0 AI initiatives, and redesigns.
- Partner deeply with cross‑functional teams (Design, Product, Engineering, Data Science) to ensure research is embedded early and often in the product development lifecycle.
- Translate research insights into actionable recommendations, influencing product direction and helping teams navigate ambiguity with clarity and confidence.
- Facilitate alignment across teams by guiding discussions, framing problems, and helping partners converge on user‑centered decisions.
- Ensure operational excellence, including planning, prioritization, and delivery across weekly, monthly, and quarterly release cycles.
What you need to succeed
- 8–10+ years of experience in UX research or strategy, including 3–5+ years leading researchers or cross‑disciplinary teams. Experience managing research leads is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to lead with empathy, cultivate psychological safety, and empower teams to do impactful work.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex insights and present them clearly to partners at all levels.
- Strong facilitation skills across product‑design‑engineering teams, especially in early‑stage problem framing.
- Deep expertise in strategic research, including problem framing, mixed‑methods approaches, and translating insights into product opportunities.
- A customer‑centric approach, with a track record of championing user needs and end-to-end experience thinking.
- Experience working in ambiguous, fast‑paced environments, guiding teams and partners toward clarity and aligned strategy.
About Adobe Design
Adobe Design creates 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:
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 $146,300 -- $278,750 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 $192,500 - $278,750 In Washington, the pay range for this position is $182,500 - $264,300
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In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
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