Director of Design Document Cloud
Director of Design Document Cloud
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$ 173300 - 323600
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Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobes all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! Were passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images videos and apps and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.
Were on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization and we know the next big idea could be yours!
The opportunity
Adobe Design is looking for an experienced design leader to join our Document Cloud team working on extending Adobe Acrobat features and functionalities across a multitude of surfaces and partnerships. As well as infusing key functionality from Adobe Express into Acrobat to democratize beautiful designs for the everyday knowledge worker solopreneaur and individual around the world.
With more than 600 million monthly active users Adobe Document Cloud products (which include Adobe Acrobat Sign and Scan to name just a few) are ubiquitous in the lives and work of more than 600 million monthly active users. Document cloud also remains the fastest growing cloud in all of Adobe.
Document Cloud design team has a long and rich legacy while still being recognized for innovation year after year. We were recognized for TIMEs Best Inventions of 2023 with our work in Liquid Mode. And that legacy of visionary experiences continues with Acrobats AI Assistant was named one of TIMEs Best Inventions of 2024.
You are:
An experienced leader with a proven track record of successfully managing large distributed (and global) design teams. You possess a strong business sense display competence in driving quality experiences through your design leadership and have a skillful approach to prioritization. You are driven by action and results striving to deliver designs efficiently analyze both quantitative and qualitative data and iterate rapidly. Furthermore you take full ownership of your responsibilities excel in managing and mentoring others and embody an entrepreneurial spirit that embraces learning from failures.
In this role you will:
Combine design vision and to achieve results. Apply critical thinking in line with organizational strategy to optimize increasing Acrobat and Express MAU while also elevating the quality of endtoend journeys.
You are an empathetic leader who fosters an inclusive and empowering environment for everyone to do innovative and impactful work.
You will deliver products that serve a variety of personas including consumer SMB and Enterprise use cases. Balancing experiences that work for everyone while also designing products with purpose.
Mentor and develop: Offer guidance and support to your team members help them overcome complex challenges encourage learning and growth opportunities and assist them in setting achievable career goals.
Learn and influence: Stay updated on industry and product technologies and trends. Be curious and explore methods tools and processes that improve and optimize how we approach editing creation and infusing AI value into our products.
Communicate Effectively: Clearly communicate design strategy and concepts to senior leadership and partners while advocating for how design decisions contribute to business success.
Collaborate and partner: Identify and prioritize opportunities in partnership with Product Management Engineering Data Science and Research leaders. Build alignment and clarity between design and partner teams.
What you need to succeed
Proven experience leading and managing design teams at the Director or above level and managing managers. Your leadership will inspire the team to take action for better user and business outcomes. You will need to have excellent written oral presentation and storytelling skills to be successful.
Ideally experience merging experiences and extensibility. Focusing on integrations partner management. Balancing feasibility and coming up with creative solutions.
Be a member and leader for the entire Document Cloud team. You have experience working with content strategy research and program managers to get the best results from a highly diverse and crossfunctional team within design.
Agility to navigate within a highly matrixed organization working through and across multiple teams functions and structures.
Outstanding collaboration and communication skills with experience working closely with crossfunctional teams in product engineering marketing and more.
Exceptional executive presence to influence others from senior executives/Cstaff to individual Growth practitioners.
Ability to balance critical thinking at a highlevel with providing mentorship to individual team members. Comfortable guiding your team through complex challenges and considering how organizational changes lead to positive business outcomes.
Extensive knowledge of usercentered design principles standard methodologies for UX/UI information architecture and the capability to transform business objectives into captivating designs.
A history of innovative thinking and a passion for pushing design boundaries to achieve business objectives. Ability to tell compelling stories through making that drive influence and alignment.
To be located on a West Coast PST time zone. Required 12 night calls a week with our colleagues in India. Travel to San Jose and San Franciso a few times a year for planning workshops and connections to your team and stakeholders.
About Adobe Design
Adobe Design creates tools that amplify the worlds ability to create and communicate. Were a global team of designers researchers prototypers content strategists program managers and more who work across Adobes three product lines: Creative Cloud Document Cloud and Experience Cloud.
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 positionis $173300 $323600 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on jobrelated knowledge skillsand experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.At Adobe for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC base commission) and shortterm incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Nonsales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and shortterm incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition certain roles may be eligible for longterm incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and fair chance ordinances.Adobe is proud to be anEqual Employment Opportunityand affirmative action 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 applicable characteristics protected by law.Learn more.
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
