Sr Product Designer, Foundations

Overview Are you passionate about solving design problems at scale, and crafting simple and elegant solutions for complex problems? Adobe Design is seeking a Product Designer to join Document Cloud Foundations and work on the design system. Your work will benefit millions of Adobe customers by helping designers and engineering teams deliver great products and services. As a senior team member, you\'ll participate in key technical planning activities, including feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery expectations. What you'll do Design system efforts for an emerging team within Document Cloud, defining system architecture, foundational primitives, components, and scalable patterns. Design, document, and maintain reusable UI components, interaction patterns, and guidelines that ensure consistency and quality across products. Partner closely with engineering to align on implementation strategies, tokens, and component APIs. Establish and evolve design system principles, standards, and contribution models to support long-term scalability and governance. Audit existing product experiences to identify inconsistencies, redundancies, and opportunities for systematization. Collaborate with product designers to translate product requirements into flexible, extensible system solutions. Champion accessibility, inclusivity, and performance as core principles within the design system. Mentor other designers on systems thinking, component design, and best practices for working with a design system. What you need to succeed Must-haves: 5+ years of experience in product design with a strong portfolio demonstrating experience designing or contributing to a design system at scale and cross-platform; familiarity with design tokens, theming, and scalable styling systems; experience collaborating on or contributing to component libraries (e.g., Storybook, Figma libraries, or similar tools); understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and how to apply them across components; history of close collaboration with design, product management, software development, and users from ideation through implementation; strong documentation skills and ability to create scalable guidance; comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving spaces, especially early-stage system work. Nice-to-haves: Excellent communication skills for articulating multi-level problems and strategies to stakeholders; working knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or frameworks like React) and how design systems are implemented in code; experience defining governance models, contribution workflows, or adoption strategies for design systems; experience influencing without authority across multiple teams; experience measuring and improving design system adoption and impact. Preferred Accessibility Design Skills: Experience designing accessible and inclusive interfaces; understanding of applying WCAG conformance criteria in design; accessibility certifications such as CPACC, WAS, CPWA, or ADS are preferred. 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. Our offerings include Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio, enabling people and businesses to turn ideas into impact. We have 30,000+ employees worldwide and are committed to an inclusive culture where ideas can come from anywhere. Adobe is 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 about our values, benefits, and culture. Adobe is committed to accessibility in our Careers website and recruiting process. If you require accommodations to navigate our site or participate in the application process, email View email address on click.appcast.io or call View phone number on click.appcast.io. Compensation and notices Expected Pay Range: The U.S. pay range for this position is $124,600 -- $234,250 annually and varies by location and experience. In California, the pay range is $161,800 - $234,250. Salaries for non-sales roles are base pay with potential incentives; long-term incentives may apply in some cases. State-Specific Notices: California, Colorado, Massachusetts notices may apply as described in the job posting. #J-18808-Ljbffr Adobe Inc.