The opportunity
We’re looking for a Sr Staff Designer to help define how intelligence, automation, and creativity come together in the next generation of creative workflows. This role sits at the intersection of brand systems, AI, and creative infrastructure—shaping experiences that make creativity more adaptive, scalable, and expressive.
Love experimenting with new technologies? Curious about how AI can expand creativity? This might be your next challenge!
What you’ll do
This role designs systems and interfaces that empower creatives to work with intelligent tools—whether that means developing adaptive brand systems, building design automation frameworks, or exploring how custom image and video models become part of the creative process.
You’ll collaborate with engineers and researchers to prototype and refine new experiences that make creative workflows faster and smarter. You might design internal tools that power creative teams or invent new interaction patterns for human–AI collaboration across visual, motion, and generative spaces.
Above all, this designer brings a tinkerer’s mindset—experimenting, iterating, and learning through building. Prototypes are used as thinking tools, evolving concepts through feedback and exploration.
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years of experience in product, systems, or interaction design—ideally across tools or platforms for creative professionals.
- Strong design craft with a systems mentality and fluency in scalable automation.
- Experience designing for AI-assisted or automated workflows.
- Technical comfort working with APIs, rendering pipelines, or creative scripting.
- Hands-on skill with prototyping tools (Figma, code, or low-fi mockups).
- Bonus points for experience with creative automation, brand systems, or model-based workflows (image, video, motion).
- Passion for accessibility, scalability, and inclusive design principles.
You might be a great fit If you…
- Think in systems but design with empathy.
- Love prototyping—and see experimentation as your design superpower.
- Have experience shaping or maintaining large-scale brand systems and can apply that thinking to intelligent creative tools.
- Are motivated by defining what creativity looks like in the age of automation and AI!
- Enjoy working at the intersection of craft, curiosity, and technology.
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.
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 $158,000 -- $301,050 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 $207,900 - $301,050
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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