Staff Product Designer, AI Foundation

The OpportunityAgentic UX is being defined in real time, and we're looking for a designer who wants to help define it.We're hiring a Staff Product Designer to join Customer Experience Orchestration (CXO) AI Foundation, the team building the agentic and hybrid UI experiences that power Adobe's enterprise customer ecosystem. Our portfolio spans the full stack: the design-time tools practitioners use to compose and tune the system, and the run-time surfaces where end customers experience it. If you bring deep design craft, sharp critical thinking, and the judgment to match the right tool to the right problem, and you want to apply all of that to a space that's still being invented, this role was written with you in mind.How we workWe hold three values that shape how we design, how we critique, and how we decide when something is done.Design with purpose. We deliver a clear POV that is refined through divergent exploration and convergent debate.Design with restraint. We sharpen our delivery by practicing rigor in what we leave out.Design with craft and taste. We focus on quality through the act of making, differentiated by exposure and experience.What you'll doLead and multiply: Guide a squad of designers working across complex, cross-functional product spaces. Create the conditions through critique, pairing, and shared exploration where people develop their point of view and do their best work.Design across multi-surface AI experiences: Contribute to ongoing initiatives spanning conversational, agentic, and hybrid experiences both the administrator who configures and the practitioner who works and hold the thread between both layers.Communicate through making: Use the full range of design tools—from whiteboard diagrams and flows to high-fidelity Figma explorations and AI-assisted prototypes—to make complex ideas legible to partners and collaborators. The right tool requires judgment and understanding the question being asked.Raise the craft bar: Bring strong interaction and visual design judgment. Work fluently within Spectrum, Adobe's design system, knowing when to follow it accurately and when to push at its edges thoughtfully, with accessibility and composability always in view. Balance long-horizon north-star thinking with close attention to quality in the build phase. Notice the details that others don't. Partner deeply across functions: Cut through confusion with Product Management, Engineering, Research, and Marketing partners. The best designers at this level make the path forward clear for everyone in the room. That requires multi-modal communication: knowing when to show a prototype, when to draw a diagram, and when to just talk it through.Stay close to the field: Agentic UX is evolving across Adobe and across the industry. Track what's working, bring back patterns worth borrowing, and help the team learn from what isn't.What you'll need to succeed8+ years of product design experience shipping high-quality work within a design system at companies known for design excellenceSignificant enterprise software design experience is strongly preferred — this is a meaningfully different skills from consumer or single-product design, and it shows up immediately in how you think about scale, composability, and the complexity of multi-stakeholder systemsExceptional critical thinking and design judgment — the ability to read a situation, identify the right phase of design, and select the right tools and methods accordingly. Prototyping fluency (including AI-assisted prototyping) is a valued skill in this role, but it's one tool in a large toolkit, not the primary measure of design abilityStrong UX architecture instincts — a mental model for scalability, object mapping, and product composability. Our team does horizontal work across products, and designers without a foundation in architecture can quickly become a bottleneckMulti-modal communication skills — the ability to communicate design decisions clearly and credibly to engineers, PMs, researchers, and business leaders, using whatever format serves the moment: prototype, diagram, document, or conversationA demonstrated point of view — you can explain why you made the choices you made, what you considered and cut, and what you'd do differently next timeYou are a visionary. You can hold the long view, seeing where the space is going, not just where it is, and use that perspective to guide your team toward work that mattersPreferred Accessibility Design Skills:Experience designing accessible and inclusive interfaces for people with disabilities.Familiarity with WCAG standards and testing for accessibility compliance.Certifications such as CPACC, WAS, CPWA, or ADS from IAAP are a plus.About Adobe DesignAdobe 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 AdobeAdobe 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 togetherAt 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 View email address on click.appcast.io or call View phone number on click.appcast.io. 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 $146,300 -- $274,300 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 $189,400 - $274,300 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 OrdinancesAdobe 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 NoticeIf 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 NoticeIt 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.SummaryLocation: San Francisco; San JoseType: Full time