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 Express helps business owners, social marketers, communicators, and side hustlers create stand-out and effective content in minutes! Join us on the Authoring Design team, where we strive to empower our users’ creativity with an editing experience that’s fast, easy, and fun.
We’re looking for someone who can provide an immediate impact to the evolution and strategy of the Express editing experience. In this role you’ll collaborate with a team of designers, product managers, and engineers to design end to end experiences. You’ll own the design process from start to finish; from defining the right problems to solve, validating prototypes with users, getting that micro interaction juuuust right, all the way to analyzing performance and recommending future improvements. In the end, the experiences you design will enable users to create beautiful and unique content that they never dreamed was possible on a platform that’s fast, and cutting edge!

Learn more at http://express.adobe.com

What you’ll do

As a key member of the Foundations design team, your work and voice will influence how the Express product will scale to multiple surfaces, ensuring product consistency and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Design Manager to establish team vision and goals, ensuring alignment with product objectives.

• Lead the component definition, contribution and documentation process, ensuring clarity and consistency across all design assets.

• Work closely with the Design System engineering team to understand requirements and bridge the gap between design and engineering.

• Partner with pillar PM, Engineering and Design leads (Editor Framework, Home, Files & Brands, Extensibility, etc) to define and prioritize pattern creation and updates. Provide guidance to feature teams for component and pattern contributions, promoting standards, and integrating feedback and changes into design system as appropriate, fostering a collaborative and inclusive design culture.

• Conduct regular audits of the design system to identify areas for improvement and ensure adherence to best practices and accessibility standards.

• Partner with the Spectrum team to ensure that the Express design system and Spectrum’s system are coherent and integrated seamlessly.

• Help define the accessibility audit process and mentor other accessibility champions across Express pillars to ensure good coverage of the product. 

• Be an advocate for accessibility standards and inclusive design best practices.

• Collaborate with Express designers to optimize the system in Figma, including developing standard processes for building and using componentized patterns

• Mentor and guide other designers in the use of the design system, fostering a culture of design excellence.

• Partner with other Horizon tenants to define the long-term contribution model.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of design principles, typography, color theory, and user-centered design.

• Ability to think strategically and solve complex design challenges.

• Proven experience in leading and managing design systems.

• Experience and familiarity with accessibility standards and best practices.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a team of designers.

• 5 or more years of experience and/or training in design or a related field

• College degree or equivalent practical experience in design with an emphasis on graphic design, HCI, or related design field

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.
 

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 $142,700 -- $265,400 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.

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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