Director of Product Design, Assets and Collaboration

The Opportunity

Adobe is growing its Design team focused on core asset management and collaboration experiences that help individuals and enterprises organize, use, and share creative assets. This role offers the chance to shape innovative solutions across Adobe’s portfolio, including tools for brand governance, asset libraries, and collaborative workflows used by millions worldwide.

We are seeking an experienced, innovative Director to lead a distributed team of world-class designers. You will guide strategic challenges, help teams deliver strong results, and shape the future of asset and collaboration experiences in an AI-first world where intelligence, automation, and human creativity drive scalable workflows.

What you'll Do

• Identify new business opportunities and turn strategy into execution, shaping roadmaps and long-term investments.
• Set a high bar for design excellence and lead team operations to deliver high-quality work with measurable customer and business impact.
• Foster a collaborative, trust-based environment that builds strong cross-team alignment on key experiences.
• Lead AI-powered and agentic workflows, exploring how conversational UI, intelligence, and generative systems transform collaboration and asset use.
• Build and scale a high-performing design organization by shaping team structure, operating models, and culture to meet evolving business needs.
• Champion creativity and innovation through experimentation, prototyping, and iteration, and help evolve design practices for the AI era.
• Represent the team to partners and senior leaders with clear communication and compelling storytelling.

What you need to succeed

• 10+ years of experience leading design within a matrixed organization, and a proven track record of success influencing across multiple teams.
• A deep understanding of creative workflows, ideally within asset management and the creation and consumption of on-brand content or a related domain.
• Highly agile player who thrives in ambiguity and can drive progress, build alignment, and adapt to evolving platform strategies, shifting priorities, and emerging technologies.
• High ownership leader who can balance strategic vision with execution rigor and can easily navigate both altitudes.
• Strong systems thinking capable of crafting scalable, composable experiences across complex, interconnected platforms.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to clearly articulate complex ideas to different audiences and levels of the organization
• Demonstrated experience building a mature team, mentoring and fostering an inclusive environment that empowers designers to innovate and deliver impactful 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

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