Sr Director of Design, GenStudio

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything 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!

Adobe Design is looking for an experienced design leader to join our Cross-Cloud Platform & Product team to extend Firefly Enterprise and Gen Studio across a multitude of surfaces and partnerships. This work will define the future of AI and automation for enterprise creative and marketing teams.

By infusing key functionality from Firefly, Workfront, Frame, and the Creative Products into collaborative and AI-driven workflows, you will enable scaled production and accelerated marketing campaign delivery for organizations of all sizes.

This is a unique opportunity for a leader who thrives in a fast-paced, 0-to-1 product environment and is passionate about crafting intuitive, AI-powered user experiences 'll collaborate across disciplines to bring bold ideas to life, continuously push the boundaries of what's possible.

An experienced leader with a proven track record of successfully managing large distributed (and global) design teams. You possess a strong business sense, demonstrate 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.

• Combine design vision and execution to achieve results. Apply critical thinking in line with organizational strategy to optimize Activation, Adoption and Engagement for Firefly Enterprise and Gen Studio customers while elevating the quality of end-to-end journeys.

• You are dedicated to craft and simplicity. You have superb visual and interaction design skills and understand how to lead early stage and scale product development.

• 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 creatives, marketers, and technologists. Balancing experiences that work for everyone while 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.

• Define and drive design strategy for all of Gen Studio and Firefly Enterprise, selling it through to senior leadership and effectively drive many teams towards alignment through storytelling and influence.

• 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.

• Proven experience leading and managing design teams at the Senior Director or above level and managing multiple levels of 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.

• Drive product experience strategy, interaction…