Product Design Manager, Adobe Experience Platform (San Jose)

The opportunityAt Adobe, our Audiences team shapes how enterprise customers segment, reach, and activate the people who matter most to their business. The work spans data infrastructure, AI-powered workflows, and experience design at exceptional scale. As a Design Manager, you will lead a squad of product designers responsible for the most heavily used surfaces in Adobe Experience Platform (AEP). You will set the quality bar for the team's output, grow each designer's career intentionally, and represent the squad's impact to cross-functional partners and leadership. Your focus is building a team that delivers outstanding work, not doing that work yourself.What you'll doFoster a team culture grounded in trust, clarity, and shared accountability, where every designer knows what success looks like and how to get there.Coach designers individually on craft, career growth, and risk-taking, matching assignments to each person's strengths and development goals.Own squad operations: prioritization, agendas, and shielding the team from noise, allowing them to direct their efforts toward their highest-impact work.Partner with Product Management and Engineering leads to shape roadmap priorities, ensure design has a seat at the table early, and navigate tradeoffs on behalf of the team.Advocate for the team's contributions at the right altitude, crafting narratives that connect design output to measurable customer and business outcomes.Guide the squad through ambiguity as the product evolves toward AI-powered and agentic experiences, helping designers adapt their practice and adopt new tools.Resolve cross-functional conflicts and organizational friction so your designers can focus on the work, not the politics.What you need to succeedMust-haves:3+ years leading product design teams, with demonstrated experience growing individual contributors and raising a team's collective output.A clear point of view on design quality that you can articulate, defend, and evolve over time.Experience navigating complex organizational dynamics on behalf of a team, including prioritization tradeoffs, collaborator alignment, and conflict resolution.Strong storytelling skills applied to elevating a team's work, not just your own.Comfort leading through ambiguity in product direction, tooling shifts, and organizational change.Nice-to-haves:Experience with enterprise products, data platforms, or AI-powered workflows.Familiarity with audience segmentation, personalization, or activation products.Experience onboarding and integrating new team members into an established squad.Equivalent practical experience in design leadership in place of a formal degree.Preferred Accessibility Design Skills:Experience designing accessible and inclusive interfaces for people with disabilities.Understanding of applying WCAG conformance criteria in design, specifically testing comps, wireframes, and prototypes for accessibility standards.Accessibility certifications CPACC, WAS, CPWA, or ADS from the IAAP preferred.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 apply.placed-app.com or call View phone number on apply.placed-app.com. 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 $128,100 -- $250,875 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 $173,300 - $250,875
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