Sr Motion Designer, Product Engagement Content

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!

The Opportunity 

Are you passionate about designing content experiences that immediately impact almost a billion users? People worldwide learn how to use Acrobat products through instructional videos, images, and articles. Adobe is going beyond these traditional learning methods, integrating next-generation learning directly into desktop, mobile, and web products. We are looking for a system-focused motion designer to drive the development of animated orientation and instructional content that informs and delights. 

As part of the Product Engagement Content Team, and in close collaboration with Document Cloud product and design teams, you’ll create against existing systems and define new ones that modernize and improve product experiences for Document Cloud users.

What you'll do 

• Produce motion content down to the last detail yourself, as well as art-directing vendor partners

• Develop forward-thinking learning experiences that help people learn how to use the Document Cloud suite of apps and adapt to new features

• Evolve and refinine an approach to motion based on ongoing user research, changing product requirements, and updated business objectives

• Create scalable design systems, guidelines, and workflows that allow our partner teams and external vendors to deliver content at scale

What you need to succeed 

Must-haves:

• A passion for motion design and a 6+ year track record of strategic, creative problem solving that meets user needs, product requirements, and business objectives

• Strong motion design skills and experience working within brand and design guidelines

• Experience defining motion designing systems and applying them at scale

• Strong portfolio of motion work that demonstrates an ability to create refined storyboards and to animate using After Effects

• Expertise in Adobe’s Creative Suite products, particularly After Effects, Illustrator, XD, and Animate

• Familiarity with Acrobat and other Document Cloud products, such as Sign and Scan 

• Attention to detail and ability to independently produce highly polished and professional work in tight time frames with multiple projects running concurrently

• Ability to organize work, prioritize tasks, balance multiple workstreams, and communicate progress

• Experience directing and supervising vendor partners, including production studios and motion designers

• Strong interpersonal written and verbal communication skills; able to communicate decision-making process

• Willingness to act on design feedback from colleagues in a rapid iterative design process

• A collaborative nature, with preference for solving problems as a team

• Willingness to contribute to the creative, collaborative spirit of the Experience Design team and the company

• BA/BFA or equivalent experience in a design-related field or applicable work experience

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with variable color

• Motion coding experience

• Experience in UX design

• Background in design for educational platforms

About Adobe Design

Adobe Design creates tools that amplify the world’s ability to create and communicate. We’re a global team of designers, researchers, prototypers, content strategists, program managers, and more who work across Adobe’s three product lines: Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action 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.