Location: San Francisco, CA (onsite) • Salary: USD 207,900 - 301,050 per year
Adobe is seeking a Senior Staff Product Designer for Video Apps to create AI native tools and workflows that use spatial 3D inputs to guide generative outputs for professional creators. You will design tools and precision controls that empower creators to influence generative systems beyond text prompts and translate emerging model capabilities into clear, usable interactions.
Benefits and culture
Adobe emphasizes a culture built on people, purpose and community, with comprehensive benefits and a global design community. The team collaborates across product groups to deliver impactful experiences for creative professionals, while maintaining a focus on user needs and real workflows.
- More predictable and repeatable generative outcomes
- Faster iteration with less trial and error
- Differentiated AI workflows rooted in professional creation
- Stronger trust between creators and AI systems
Responsibilities
- Help develop new tools and workflows that let creators guide generative systems using spatial and structural intent, not just text prompts
- Design precision controls that meaningfully influence generative behavior
- Leverage 3D scenes, structure, materials, cameras, and spatial relationships as inputs to AI systems
- Develop workflows that support iteration, correction, and refinement of generative outputs
- Translate emerging model capabilities into creator facing interactions that feel clear and usable
- Work horizontally across product orgs to integrate AI capabilities consistently across products
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in product, systems, or interaction design
- Experience designing complex creative tools or multi-step workflows
- Familiarity with generative AI systems or AI-assisted creative products
- Strong systems thinking with the ability to design modular experiences across different product contexts
- Comfort working closely with engineering on technically complex problems
- Ability to navigate ambiguity while staying grounded in execution
- Clear communication and the ability to articulate design intent across disciplines
- Experience prototyping AI-native workflows or interaction models
Technologies
Impact and outcomes
Why this role matters: the work helps ensure Adobe's generative AI tools expand creator agency rather than replace it. Grounding generation in spatial structure and explicit control enables more predictable results, faster iteration, differentiated professional workflows, and stronger trust between creators and AI.
About Adobe Design
Adobe Design is a global, multidisciplinary organization behind Adobe experiences. Our full‑stack team includes design researchers, design engineers, experience designers, brand designers, content strategists, and program managers dedicated to delivering exceptional user experiences for Adobe customers.
About Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone to create through platforms and tools that unlock creativity, productivity and personalized experiences. Our leading offerings include Acrobat Studio, Express, Firefly, Creative Cloud, Experience Platform and GenStudio, all designed to turn ideas into impact with AI powered by human ingenuity.
Lets Adobe Together
Adobe cultivates a culture where every employee can contribute meaningfully. Learn about Adobe life, our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, and how you can help advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.
AI use guidelines for interviews
Interviews assess your skills and thinking. AI or recording tools are not permitted during live interviews unless explicitly invited or approved as a reasonable accommodation. Misuse that misrepresents work may affect eligibility.
Pay range
- United States wide: 158,000 - 301,050 per year
- California: 207,900 - 301,050
- New York: 207,900 - 301,050
- Washington: 200,000 - 289,550
State-specific notices
- California: Fair Chance Ordinances
- Colorado: Application Window Notice
- Massachusetts: Massachusetts Legal Notice
