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

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We're 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!

About Adobe

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to craft and deliver incredible digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to build beautiful and powerful images, videos, and appsand to transform how companies connect with customers across every screen.

We hire exceptional talent and ensure an outstanding employee experience rooted in respect, inclusion, and equal opportunity.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Staff 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.

Love experimenting with new technologies? Curious about how AI can expand creativity? This might be your next challenge!

What You'll 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 tinkerer's mindset experimenting, 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 AI-assisted 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.

What We Offer

At Adobe, creativity belongs to everyoneand that includes our team. We offer a collaborative, inclusive environment where diverse perspectives spark better ideas. Youll have access to worldclass resources, groundbreaking AI tools, and opportunities to work on projects with global impact.

Adobe provides comprehensive health benefits, flexible time off, generous parental leave, and continuous learning opportunities to support your growth and wellbeing.

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.

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 $146,300 $274,300 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.

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 newhire equity award.

StateSpecific Notices:

California: Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and fair chance ordinances.

Colorado: If 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: It 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.

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.

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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