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The opportunity

Adobe Design is looking for a design leader who is energized to lead through ambiguity and transformation: a visionary who can help shape how people access knowledge and information while on the go, every day from their mobile devices.

You will lead and shape design strategy across Acrobat's mobile surfaces, evolving some of Adobe's most successful products while creating the conditions for your team to completely reinvent them. Document Cloud is Adobe's fastest-growing cloud, reaching over 650 million monthly active users through products including Acrobat, Sign, and Scan. Our legacy of innovation speaks for itself: TIME's Best Invention two years running, and a Fast Company top 10 spot in Applied AI for 2026.

You are the kind of leader people want to follow. You build environments where designers develop strong points of view, feel safe taking creative risks, and grow into the best versions of themselves. You know that the work only gets better when the people doing it feel seen, challenged, and genuinely supported.

This is not a role for someone who needs the path clear before they start moving. It is for a design leader who inspires while rallying others, thrives in ambiguity, brings rigor to big ideas, and can hold complex systems and the human moment at the same time.

If you are ready to influence how the world works at scale, invest deeply in the people who will help get it there, and leave something lasting behind, we would love to meet you.

What you’ll do

• Grow and establish a user-centric design practice where designers develop and represent confident POVs; focusing on long-term vision and near-term goals. Empathetic leadership to cultivate an inclusive and empowering environment for the designers to do innovative and impactful work.

• A deep understanding of creative workflows and personal experience working as a creative with deep connections to the creative community.

• A background in leading a mobile design team and succeeding within a matrix global organization that operates across world-wide timezones.

• Experience influencing and championing user-centric design across functions.

• A track record for working with executives on ambiguous problems and crafting big-picture strategies driven by design.

• Partner with product and engineering to envision the possibilities and opportunities for on-the-go knowledge experiences.

• Build an impactful collaborative environment and encourage deep partnerships with cross-functional teams, setting a high bar for design craft, conceiving, defining, and driving design strategy.

• Work across a complex product space, serving as a champion for cohesive workflows and empowering your team to drive alignment among collaborators.

• Jump in on key workstreams, being responsible for directing the strategy and execution for high-impact projects.

• Drive a team-wide design process, collaborating closely with program management.

• Represent the team and the team’s work to executives.

• Coach and mentor designers, attract design talent to the team, and hire, grow, retain, and promote designers.

What you need to succeed

• The ability to facilitate collaboration across product/design/engineering teams in the early stages of strategic projects. This may sometimes involve driving design thinking workshops.

• Deep expertise in problem framing from customers’ point of view and solving problems through storytelling and high design craft.

• Socializing new insights and ideas with design rationale grounded in user research and business goals. Your leadership will incite the team to act for better user and business outcomes. You will need to have excellent written, oral, presentation and storytelling skills to be successful.

• A genuine curiosity about how AI is reshaping end-to-end design workflows, and a track record of experimenting with new tools and methods before they become standard practice.

• Experience designing or leading design for mobile or other constrained contexts, with an instinct for what makes small-screen experiences feel effortless rather than just functional.

• A curiosity about how people discover, adopt, and get value from products on mobile, and a desire to influence that full arc through design.

About Adobe Design

Adobe Design is the multidisciplinary, global 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 experiences for Adobe users.

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.

AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

Expected Pay Range:

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 $155,100 -- $293,800 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.



In California, the pay range for this position is $202,900 - $293,800


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.

State-Specific Notices:

California:

Fair Chance Ordinances

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:

Application Window Notice

If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:

Massachusetts Legal Notice

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.