Adobe is hiring: Staff Experience Designer (San Francisco) in San Francisco

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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

Were looking for a Staff Experience Designer to help define how intelligence, automation, and creativity come together in the next generation of creative workflows. This role sits at the intersection of brand systems, AI, and creative infrastructureshaping experiences that make creativity more adaptive, scalable, and expressive.

What youll do

This role designs systems and interfaces that empower creatives to work with intelligent toolswhether that means developing adaptive brand systems, building design automation frameworks, or exploring how custom image and video models become part of the creative process.

Youll collaborate with engineers and researchers to prototype and refine new experiences that make creative workflows faster and smarter. You might design internal tools that power creative teams or invent new interaction patterns for humanAI collaboration across visual, motion, and generative spaces.

Above all, this designer brings a tinkerers mindsetexperimenting, iterating, and learning through building. Prototypes are used as thinking tools, evolving concepts through feedback and exploration.

What youll bring

• 8+ years of experience in product, systems, or interaction designideally across tools or platforms for creative professionals.
• Strong design craft with a systems mentality and fluency in scalable automation.
• Experience designing for AIassisted or automated workflows.
• Technical comfort working with APIs, rendering pipelines, or creative scripting.
• Handson skill with prototyping tools (Figma, code, or lowfi mockups).
• Bonus points for experience with creative automation, brand systems, or modelbased workflows (image, video, motion).
• Passion for accessibility, scalability, and inclusive design principles.

You might be a great fit if you

• Think in systems but design with empathy.
• Love prototypingand see experimentation as your design superpower.
• Have experience shaping or maintaining largescale brand systems and can apply that thinking to intelligent creative tools.
• Are motivated by defining what creativity looks like in the age of automation and AI!
• Enjoy working at the intersection of craft, curiosity, and technology.

Preferred 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 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 position is $142,700 -- $265,400 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on jobrelated knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity

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 applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

Accessible Recruitment

Adobe aims to make Adobe.com 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 accommodations@adobe.com or call (408) 5363015.

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