Senior Designer, Adobe Creative

Senior Multidisciplinary Designer

Adobe Creative

Our CompanyEmpowering everyone to create.

Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create and bring digital experiences to life. From creators and students to small businesses, global enterprises and nonprofit organizations, customers choose Adobe products to create, collaborate, grow, and build remarkable experiences.

We are looking for curious, ambitious makers who want to help define world-class creativity in this new era. We believe the craft is more essential than ever while AI should help people create more, explore more, and unlock new possibilities while keeping creators at the center of the creative process.

Adobe is amplifying human ingenuity with AI.

Our Team

Adobe Creative is Adobe’s in-house brand-creative engine, developing the ideas, campaigns, and assets that power Adobe’s brand and business. We are part of the broader Content & Creative (“C&C”) organization. We work alongside Adobe Content, which focuses on publishing and audience development through owned, earned, and partner channels; an Experiences team, which oversees Adobe’s real-world moments; and shared service teams spanning Video, Talent, Partnerships, and Production.

Together, C&C commissions and produces work while equipping teams across Adobe’s Global Marketing Organization and the company to create, adapt, and distribute high-quality work with greater speed and consistency.

The Opportunity

Adobe makes the tools the world uses to create. Our own design work should set the standard for what those tools make possible. Adobe Creative is looking for an exceptional Senior Multidisciplinary Designer to create beautifully crafted, culturally relevant work across Adobe Creative’s output.

You will work across campaigns, multi-platform design, product storytelling, motion and live experiences, moving confidently between early visual exploration, design development and polished final execution.

Working alongside Design leaders, Creative Directors, Art Directors, Copywriters, Strategists and Product partners, you will help turn ideas into distinctive visual expressions that feel recognizably Adobe without becoming repetitive or formulaic.

You will combine exceptional design craft with curiosity for emerging technology. You will use Creative Cloud, Firefly and AI-enabled workflows to explore more widely, prototype more quickly and make stronger work without compromising taste, originality or human judgment.

You are a maker first. You care deeply about typography, image-making, composition, and the details that make an idea feel fully resolved.

What You’ll DoDesign Across the Work

• Create high-quality design across campaigns, multi-platform design, product storytelling, and live experiences.

• Develop work from early concept and visual exploration through design development and final execution.

• Apply exceptional craft across typography, image-making, layout, composition and art direction.

• Work across high-velocity everyday output and highly crafted flagship work.

• Adapt strong ideas across channels and formats without losing their intelligence or visual impact.

• Create work that feels connected and recognizably Adobe while remaining fresh, distinctive and culturally relevant.

Turn Ideas into Visual Worlds

• Partner with Creative Directors, Design Directors and Art Directors to develop visual territories and creative systems.

• Translate campaign and creative ideas into compelling art direction and design expression.

• Collaborate with Copywriters to develop visual and verbal ideas as one connected creative system.

• Create mood boards, prototypes, and design studies that help teams explore and align early.

• Know when to explore broadly and when to refine toward a clear, production-ready solution.

• Bring a strong visual point of view while remaining open to collaboration and critique.

Build Scalable Creative Systems

• Create modular frameworks, templates and reusable design tools that support speed without losing craft.

• Help translate Adobe’s brand system into distinctive creative expression across real work.

• Test how design ideas perform across channels, formats and audience needs.

• Find opportunities to improve tools and workflows based on real creative applications.

• Balance systematic thinking with experimentation, surprise and flexibility.

• Document design thinking clearly so others can apply it effectively.

Advance AI-Native Design

• Use Creative Cloud, Firefly and emerging generative tools throughout concepting, prototyping and production.

• Use AI-enabled workflows to expand visual exploration and accelerate iteration without lowering the standard.

• Apply human judgment, taste and craft to all AI-assisted work.

• Help define where AI can support scale and where human authorship and intervention remain essential.

• Test emerging Adobe capabilities through real creative work and share useful feedback with Product teams.

• Apply responsible AI practices, including provenance, creator rights and Content Credentials.

Collaborate and Deliver

• Work closely with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Copywriters, Motion Designers, Strategists, Producers, Product and Product Marketing.

• Present work clearly, explain design decisions, and respond constructively to feedback.

• Partner with Production to carry ideas into execution while protecting their creative intent.

• Collaborate with photographers, illustrators, artists, studios, and specialist partners when required.

• Maintain a high design standard through fast timelines, multiple workstreams, and changing priorities.

• Take ownership of your work while contributing generously to the ideas and development of the wider team.

What You Need to Succeed

• You consider yourself a maker first. AI fluency is how you work, not a skill you are developing.

• 6+ years of experience in design, art direction, or multidisciplinary creative practice.

• A standout portfolio demonstrating exceptional design craft across multi-platform campaigns and product storytelling.

• Deep expertise in typography, layout, image-making, and visual composition.

• Strong fluency across digital, motion, and emerging design practices.

• Strong conceptual thinking and the ability to carry an idea from exploration through final execution.

• Experience working across both high-velocity creative and highly crafted flagship work.

• Experience applying brand systems in ways that feel distinctive and alive.

• Strong systems thinking and experience creating modular frameworks, templates or reusable creative tools.

• Fluency with Adobe Creative Cloud, Firefly and AI-enabled visual workflows.

• A clear perspective on how generative AI changes visual exploration, authorship and production.

• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams and collaborating with Copy, Motion, Strategy and Production.

• Strong presentation, communication, and collaboration skills.

• A genuine and current understanding of culture, design, art, technology and emerging visual practices.

• The ability to balance speed, experimentation, and craft.

• A maker attitude, curiosity and a commitment to continuously improving the work.

About Adobe

Adobe 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 together**

At 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.

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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 $89,600 - $200,150 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 $138,200 - $200,150

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 Ordinances

Adobe 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 Notice

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:Massachusetts Legal Notice

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