Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!
The opportunity
Adobe Design, our 750+ person global experience design group, is looking for a Senior Experience Designer to join the Illustrator team, part of the growing Creative Cloud business. We work closely with business, marketing, engineering, and research to deeply understand customer needs and deliver the industry standard in tools for print and digital media. We’re seeking a designer who thinks holistically and uses modern tools to evaluate concepts quickly. One with an inquisitive personality and the dream to evolve, craft and build for the future. Come help us build the industry-leading graphic design tool that lets Creatives design anything they can imagine.
What you'll do
As a Senior Experience Designer, you will design holistic experiences across many products and platforms while collaborating with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional partners. You will design "simple, elegant & intuitive" experiences and interactions that bring delight and step change to users’ workflows. Communicate design ideas at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and/or high-fidelity prototypes. Partner closely with the user research team and engage directly with customers to gain a deeper understanding of their goals, validate design solutions, conduct quick rounds of usability testing, incorporating results into your design process. The ideal candidate should have a strong design background and a proven ability to deliver compelling user experiences, work effectively in a cross-organization.
What you need to succeed
- A minimum of 8+ years of industry experience in product design with a proven track record of success
- College degree or equivalent practical experience in design with an emphasis on graphic design, HCI, or related design field
- Experience (and a love of!) solving complex design and technology problems using systems thinking.
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to manage multiple workstreams
- Proficiency in Figma as well as Adobe Xd, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, or similar product design programs
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate a multi-level problem space and strategy behind design decisions
- Passion for understanding how creative people do what they do and how technology plays a role in the creative process
- Creative and analytical skills to advocate for and support research, synthesize, and communicate insights that encourage design opportunities and product strategy
- Experience working with existing research, conducting your own research, presenting results, and acting on those results
- Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Knowledge around and passion for accessible and inclusive design
- Experience crafting user interactions for automation and features driven by machine learning and artificial intelligence
How to apply
To be considered for this role please submit a resume and online portfolio with examples of your product/experience design work. We are particularly interested in your process. It is very effective to include case studies that show off the evolution of your work. Early sketches, nixed ideas or challenges overcome are all encouraged artifacts. The journey is just as important as an extraordinary finished product.
About Adobe Design
At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized throughout the world on Best Companies lists. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely.
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Adobe Design creates tools that amplify the world’s ability to create and communicate. We’re a distributed 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.
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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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