Senior Director of Product Design

 The opportunity 

Adobe is looking for a Senior Director of Product Design to lead design for products that serve creative professionals. In this role, you will guide a highly accomplished group of designers and design leaders responsible for shaping industry defining creative tools across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. 

You will operate at the intersection of craft, creativity, and technology, setting a high bar for design excellence while helping teams navigate complex, ambiguous problem spaces. Working closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and Executive partners, you will define design vision and strategy for tools that millions of creative professionals rely on daily. 

This role has a profound impact on how creators’ express ideas, develop mastery, and trust the tools they choose to build their livelihoods around. 

What you'll do 

• Coach and mentor designers and design leaders, hire and attract top-notch talent to the team, and foster a culture where the designers grown, learn and do their best work. 
• Build a collaborative environment and encourage deep partnership with cross-functional teams, setting a high bar for design craft, and define and execute design strategy for redesigns, 1.0s, and lead all aspects of design execution across releases on multiple platforms. 
• Work with peer design leaders in the US to provide strategy and execution support of their teams based in Noida and Bangalore, India. 
• Help the teams contribute to the product strategy discussions through vivid design visions. 
• Incite action in cross-functional partners to deliver better user and business outcomes. 
• Guide the teams in weekly, monthly and quarterly product releases 

What you need to succeed 

• 20+ years of overall industry experience, including 12+ years managing large design organizations of designers and managers.
• Lead empathetically, fostering an inclusive and empowering environment for the design team to do innovative and impactful work. 
• Phenomenal oral and written communication skills are a pre-requisite. 
• Be an effective facilitator across product-design-engineering teams in early stages of key projects. 
• Deep expertise in strategic problem framing and solving problems through high design craft 
• Embody a learner and mentor mentality 

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.

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.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call +1 408-536-3015. 

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