The opportunity
Creativity is deeply human—and crafting AI tools that empower it demands clarity, care, and strong design leadership. The Firefly Site creative team seeks a Staff Product Designer to lead the development of intuitive, expressive experiences that help people discover, understand, and adopt Firefly’s AI-powered creative tools.
In this role, you’ll bring cohesion across Firefly’s ecosystem by blending product strategy, UX systems, visual craft, and AI literacy. You’ll thrive in complexity, guide teams through ambiguity, and advocate for users with confidence, empathy, and purpose
What you'll do
- Design connected, approachable experiences that help users discover, understand, and trust AI‑powered creative tools
- Lead with high craft across UX architecture and UI, ensuring AI interactions feel intentional, transparent, and human
- Partner closely with product, engineering, data science, and marketing to align strategy and execution
- Prototype early and often—using interactive prototypes to explore, test, and validate AI‑driven workflows
- Champion clarity and cohesion across Firefly surfaces through systems thinking and design leadership
- Present design direction to senior leaders with confidence, grounding decisions in customer insight and AI understanding
What you need to succeed
- A portfolio showing exceptional UX and visual design across responsive, multi‑surface experiences
- Proven experience leading design within large, cross‑functional organizations
- Hands‑on experience crafting AI‑powered products or tools, including working directly with AI capabilities and constraints
- Proficiency in prototyping (low‑ to high‑fidelity) to explore and communicate complex interactions
- Experience designing for user acquisition, onboarding, or adoption of sophisticated products
- Mastery of modern design and prototyping tools (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.)
- Excellent communication skills and a deep commitment to inclusive, accessible
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.
How to apply
Submit your resume and portfolio. We’re especially interested in examples that demonstrate how you’ve shaped AI powered experiences through prototyping, partnered closely with cross functional teams, and navigated complexity to deliver clear, human centered solutions.
About Adobe Design
Adobe Design builds 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.
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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 -- $274,300 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 $189,400 - $274,300
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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