Benefits and culture
Adobe offers a comprehensive benefits program and a culture built around people, purpose, and community. You’ll join a global team that empowers creators across Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud, backed by a workforce of over 30,000 professionals shaping the future of AI-assisted creativity. The environment emphasizes inclusive design, accessibility, and collaboration, with a focus on growth, curiosity, and meaningful impact.
- Comprehensive benefits programs
The opportunity
We are seeking a Sr Staff Designer to define how intelligence, automation, and creativity come together in the next generation of creative workflows. This role sits at the convergence of brand systems, AI, and creative infrastructure, shaping experiences that are more adaptive, scalable, and expressive. If you enjoy exploring new technologies and envision how AI can expand creative potential, this could be your next challenge.
Responsibilities
- Design systems and interfaces that enable creatives to work with intelligent tools, from adaptive brand systems to design automation frameworks and the integration of custom image and video models into workflows.
- Collaborate with engineers and researchers to prototype and refine experiences that accelerate and enhance creative processes.
- Develop internal tools for creative teams or craft new interaction patterns for human–AI collaboration across visual, motion, and generative spaces.
- Bring a tinkerer mindset, iterating and learning through hands-on building.
- Use prototypes as thinking tools to evolve concepts through feedback and exploration.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in product, systems, or interaction design for tools or platforms used by creative professionals.
- Strong craft with a systems mindset and fluency in scalable automation.
- Experience designing AI-assisted or automated workflows.
- Technical comfort with APIs, rendering pipelines, or creative scripting.
- Hands-on prototyping skills using Figma, code, or low-fidelity mockups.
- Bonus for experience with creative automation, brand systems, or model-based workflows (image, video, motion).
- Passion for accessibility, scalability, and inclusive design principles.
- Think in systems and design with empathy.
- Love prototyping and treat experimentation as a design superpower.
- Experience shaping or maintaining large-scale brand systems and applying that thinking to intelligent creative tools.
- Motivation to define what creativity looks like in the age of automation and AI.
- Interest in the intersection of craft, curiosity, and technology.
- Experience designing accessible and inclusive interfaces for people with disabilities.
- Familiarity with WCAG standards and accessibility testing.
- Certifications such as CPACC, WAS, CPWA, or ADS from IAAP are a plus.
Technologies
- Figma
- APIs
- Rendering pipelines
- Creative scripting
Compensation
US pay range for this position spans from $158,000 to $301,050 annually. For California, the targeted range is $207,900 to $301,050 per year. Salaries vary by location and reflect experience, skills, and role scope. California-specific range is $207,900–$301,050.
Location
California, onsite.
Interview guidelines
- AI use during live interviews is not permitted unless expressly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. Misuse or misrepresentation of tools may affect eligibility.
State notices
- California: Fair Chance Ordinances. Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in line with state and local laws.
- Colorado: If open to Colorado, the application window remains open until the stated Pacific Time deadline to comply with pay transparency regulations.
- Massachusetts: It is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment.
About Adobe Design
Adobe Design creates tools that amplify the world’s ability to create and communicate. We are a global team of designers, researchers, prototypers, and more, working across Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud.
About Adobe
Adobe enables everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools powered by AI and human ingenuity. Our offerings include Creative Cloud, Firefly, Experience Platform, and more. With 30,000+ employees worldwide, we aim to hire the best and foster a culture where every idea matters and can make an impact.
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