The Opportunity
Adobe Design seeks a design leader who can navigate ambiguity and drive transformation, shaping how people access knowledge and information on the go through 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 reinvent them.
Document Cloud is Adobe's fastest-growing cloud, reaching over 650 million monthly active users through products including Acrobat, Sign, and Scan.
Adobe's innovation legacy is recognized by TIME's Best Invention for two consecutive years and a Fast Company top 10 spot in Applied AI for 2026.
You are the kind of leader people want to follow, building environments where designers develop strong points of view, feel safe taking creative risks, and grow into the best versions of themselves. The work improves when people feel seen, challenged, and genuinely supported.
This is a role 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’re ready to influence how the world works at scale and invest in the people who will help get there, this opportunity awaits.
What You’ll Do
- Grow and establish a user-centric design practice where designers develop and represent confident points of view, balancing long-term vision with near-term goals.
- Lead with empathy to cultivate an inclusive, empowering environment for designers to pursue innovative and impactful work.
- Bring a deep understanding of creative workflows with firsthand experience as a creative connected to the creative community.
- Have a background leading a mobile design team within a global matrix organization spanning multiple time zones.
- Influence and champion user-centric design across functions.
- Demonstrate a track record of partnering with executives on ambiguous problems and crafting big-picture design-driven strategies.
- Collaborate with product and engineering to envision on‑the‑go knowledge experiences.
- Foster a highly collaborative environment and deep cross-functional partnerships, raising the bar for design craft and driving design strategy.
- Navigate a complex product space to champion cohesive workflows and empower your team to align collaborators.
- Take a hands-on role in key workstreams, directing strategy and execution for high-impact projects.
- Lead a team-wide design process in close collaboration with program management.
- Represent the team and its work to executives.
- Coach and mentor designers, attract talent, and hire, grow, retain, and promote design staff.
What You Need to Succeed
- Ability to facilitate collaboration across product, design, and engineering teams in early strategic stages, including design thinking workshops when needed.
- Deep expertise in framing problems from the customer perspective and solving them through storytelling and high design craft.
- Ability to socialize new insights with design rationale grounded in user research and business goals.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and storytelling skills.
- Curiosity about how AI reshapes end-to-end design workflows, with 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 making small-screen experiences feel effortless.
- Interest in how people discover, adopt, and gain value from mobile products, and a desire to influence that lifecycle through design.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits programs
- Long-term equity awards as part of a new hire equity program
- Short-term incentives via the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP)
- Sales commission plans for sales roles
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 enables creativity and productivity through innovative platforms and tools that empower personalized customer experiences.
Our offerings, including Acrobat Studio, Express, Firefly, Creative Cloud, Experience Platform, Experience Manager, and GenStudio, combine AI with human ingenuity to turn ideas into impact.
With more than 30,000 employees worldwide, Adobe continues to push the boundaries of growth and impact, guided by a culture that empowers everyone to contribute meaningfully.
Let's Adobe Together
Adobe is committed to a culture where every employee can make an impact. Learn about Adobe life, our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, and how you can help advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.
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Expected Pay Range
The U.S. pay range for this position is $155,100 to $293,800 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may 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 to $293,800.
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, 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.
