Sr Design Manager

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

Are you passionate about the future of creativity and GenAI's role in that journey? Adobe is looking for a senior design manager for Firefly Platform and Capabilities to lead the team that is designing the magic of GenAI services and models. The team you will lead is responsible for a design-led innovation practice, diplomatically balancing inputs from multiple partners while representing a strong and confident customer-centric POV. You and your team will work at the model-level of AI technology, partnering closely with engineering to explore and define the future where generative technology will accelerate human creativity, not replace it.

What you’ll do

• Grow and establish a user-centric design practice where designers develop and represent confident POVs; focusing on long-term vision and near-term goals.
• Partner with product and engineering to envision the possibilities and opportunities for future technology.
• Build an impactful collaborative environment and encourage deep partnerships with cross-functional teams, setting a high bar for design craft, conceiving, defining, and driving design strategy.
• Work across a complex product space, serving as a champion for cohesive workflows and empowering your team to drive alignment among collaborators.
• Jump in on key workstreams, being responsible for the strategy and execution for high-impact projects.
• Drive a team-wide design process, collaborating closely with program management.
• Represent the team and the team’s work to executives.
• Coach and mentor designers, attract design talent to the team, and hire, grow, retain, and promote designers.

What you need to succeed

• Empathetic leadership to cultivate an inclusive and empowering environment for the designers to do innovative and impactful work.
• A deep understanding of creative workflows and personal experience working as a creative with deep connections to the creative community.
• A background in leading a platform team and succeeding within a matrix organization.
• Experience influencing and championing user-centric design across functions.
• A track record for working with executives on ambiguous problems and crafting big-picture strategies driven by design.
• The ability to facilitate collaboration across product/design/engineering teams in the early stages of strategic projects. This may sometimes involve driving design thinking workshops.
• Deep expertise in problem framing from customers’ point of view and solving problems through storytelling and high design craft.
• Socializing new insights and ideas with design rationale grounded in user research and business goals. Your leadership will incite the team to take action for better user and business outcomes. You will need to have excellent written, oral, presentation and storytelling skills to be successful.
• Embodying a learners' mentality. AI and new technology is always changing!

About Adobe Design

At Adobe Design we are designing the 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. We often design tools that we use ourselves!

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 $123,200 -- $249,800 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.

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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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