The Opportunity

Adobe Design, our 750+ person global experience design group, is looking for a Senior Experience Designer to join our Creative Cloud team working on Adobe Illustrator. We're looking for a Designer who is customer-obsessed and strive to create inviting, simple, and accessible experiences for the modern, connected world. The ideal candidate should have a strong design background and a proven ability to deliver compelling user experiences, work effectively in a cross-organization, and geographically distributed environment. If you are enthusiastic about solving user problems and big technical challenges, this is your opportunity to work with a truly outstanding team on some extremely exciting and forward-thinking projects.

What you'll do

• Design 'simple, elegant & intuitive' experiences and interactions that bring delight and step change to users' workflows.
• Approach problems holistically. Understand the demographics, needs, and behaviors of people who use Illustrator by exploring our quantitative and qualitative research. Solve for both business and consumer needs.
• Explore design ideas via sketches, storyboards, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
• Be an advocate for the user. Use customer feedback, research, and data analytics to discover unexpected insights and gain a deeper understanding of user's goals.
• Define design strategy, craft visions for products and experiences and share with senior executives using your storytelling skills.
• Work closely with product managers, senior engineering scientists, and partners across the company to bring new products to life.

What you need to succeed

• A minimum of 6+ years of industry experience in product design with a proven track record of success.
• Experience (and a love of!) solving complex design and technology problems using systems thinking.
• A history of close collaboration with design, product management, software development, and users from ideation through implementation.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate a multi-level problem space and strategy behind design decisions to stakeholders of all levels.
• Creative and analytical skills to advocate for and support research, synthesize, and communicate insights that encourage design opportunities and product strategy.
• Ability to proficiently facilitate brainstorming sessions, cultivate the creative thinking process, build compelling presentation decks or videos, and present concept pitches.
• The ability to collaborate and inform open-ended design projects that may be ambiguous or ill-defined in their early stages.
• Deep knowledge and experience across a range of design approaches, methodologies, prototyping, and wireframing.
• Proficiency in Figma as well as Illustrator, Photoshop, or similar product design programs