**The Opportunity **
We’re looking for a **Sr. Product Design Manager **to shape monetization growth experiences throughout Adobe. This role focuses on how millions of users discover and access powerful creative and generative AI capabilities across Adobe surfaces on desktop, web, and mobile products.
You’ll lead a team of growth designers that work on high-impact initiatives across in-app commerce, account and admin experiences, subscription management, and monetizing AI capabilities, helping translate product innovation into scalable business models while maintaining Adobe’s high bar for quality, craft, and accessibility — all while enabling teams to iterate, learn, and grow.
If you're excited about connecting product value, customer adoption, and business growth, this role sits at the center of that work.
**What you'll Do **
Set a high bar for design excellence, from strategic vision to execution, while leading day-to-day team operations to consistently deliver high-quality work.
Identify new business opportunities and translate strategy into action, shaping roadmaps and long-term investments. Bring clarity to ambiguity by connecting insights, aligning teams, and prioritizing high-impact initiatives. Drive innovation through growth experimentation, evolving systems that support product adoption and revenue growth.
Build a collaborative, trust-based culture that strengthens cross-functional partnerships and aligns teams around key experiences. Communicate work with clarity and impact to partners and senior leadership. Hire, mentor, and grow top talent while advancing how design operates in the AI era.
**What you need to succeed **
- 5+ years of experience leading design within a matrixed organization, and a proven track record of success influencing across multiple teams.
- Deep understanding of growth or monetization experiences within large-scale product ecosystems.
- Agility player who thrives in ambiguity and can drive progress, build alignment, and adapt to evolving strategies, shifting priorities, and emerging technologies.
- High ownership leader who can balance strategic vision with execution rigor and can easily navigate both altitudes.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex ideas to different audiences and levels of the organization
- Demonstrated experience mentoring and fostering an inclusive environment that empowers designers to innovate and deliver impactful work.
- Experience leading a team crafting experiments and iterative improvements informed by user behavior, product metrics, and A/B testing.
- Passion for accessibility, scalability, and inclusive design principles.
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**
At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.
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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 $141,700 -- $272,500 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 $188,200 - $272,500 In New York, the pay range for this position is $188,200 - $272,500 In Washington, the pay range for this position is $168,600 - $244,200
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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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.
Massachusetts:
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