Adobe's Document Cloud Growth team is seeking a Staff Product Designer to advance growth for PDF Spaces, Acrobat’s AI powered way to work with documents. This onsite role in Oregon places you at the crossroads of product strategy and user outcomes, shaping how Spaces reaches and resonates with users from first encounter through activation, engagement, and sharing.
Responsibilities
- Discover: collaborate with partners to analyze funnel data, identify where users hesitate or fail to see value in Spaces, and translate those signals into design opportunities.
- Hypothesize: articulate clear design hypotheses and rapidly prototype to test how placement, messaging, and interaction influence understanding and adoption of Spaces.
- Experiment: run tests from entry-point copy to larger workflow redesigns, prioritizing speed of insight over perfection.
- Influence: connect design choices to business outcomes and present reasoning clearly to partners and senior stakeholders.
- Collaborate: work closely with research, data science, content strategy, product management, and engineering to align on user needs and intent across the Spaces funnel.
- Define: contribute growth design frameworks and approaches that others can build on within the team.
- Elevate: operate at staff scope by shaping the problem, influencing the roadmap, and elevating the team’s thinking about how Spaces reaches users.
Requirements
- 8+ years of product design experience.
- A portfolio demonstrating strong UX across multi-surface, multi-platform experiences.
- Experience solving end-to-end growth, activation, engagement, or conversion problems.
- Comfort reasoning from behavioral data and metrics in addition to user research.
- Strong problem-framing skills and the ability to define the right problem before pursuing solutions.
- A track record of running experiments with clear hypotheses, tests, and learnings applied.
- Proven cross-functional collaboration with research, data, PM, and content partners.
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to align with senior partners.
- Proficiency in Figma and the ability to convey ideas through prototyping in Figma and Cursor.
Technologies
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits programs
The Opportunity
Adobe Design is hiring a Staff Product Designer to join the Document Cloud team, focusing on growth for PDF Spaces, Acrobat’s AI powered approach to document work. This is a new and ambitious product experience, and you will shape how it reaches users at scale. The Document Cloud Design team has a history of innovation, recognized by TIME as Best Inventions in 2023 for Liquid Mode and in 2024 for Acrobat’s AI Assistant, and Fast Company names Adobe as a Top Most Innovative Company in Applied AI. If you are driven to connect strong product experiences with the people who need them, this role offers the opportunity to own the design of user movement from first encounter through activation, engagement, and sharing, balancing data grounded optimizations with bold bets on how Spaces surfaces in workflows.
How to Apply
- Please submit your resume and portfolio.
- We are particularly interested in work where the starting point was a user problem or a gap in the funnel, not a feature request.
- Include examples of both optimization work and larger conceptual swings, with clear explanations of how you decided which approach was appropriate.
- Show how you partnered with research, data, PM, and content to define and validate your approach.
- Provide evidence of staff-level scope, demonstrating how you shaped the problem or influenced the roadmap beyond execution.
About Adobe Design
Adobe Design builds tools that amplify the world’s ability to create and communicate. We are a distributed team of designers, researchers, content strategists, program managers, and more, working 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. Our offerings include Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio, all powered by AI and human ingenuity. With 30,000+ employees worldwide, Adobe is building the next decade of growth and inviting top talent to help shape it.
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.
Expected pay range
The U.S. pay range for this position is 146,300 to 274,300 USD per year. Pay within this range varies by work location and is influenced by job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In California, the pay range is 189,400 to 274,300 USD.
State-specific notices
- California: Fair Chance Ordinances. Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in compliance with state and local laws.
- Colorado: Application Window Notice. If open to hiring in Colorado, the application window remains open until the stated date in Pacific Time, to comply with pay transparency regulations.
- Massachusetts: Massachusetts Legal Notice. It is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment.
