Senior Designer, Adobe Firefly

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!

 

Senior Designer, Adobe Firefly

The opportunity

Are you a systems thinker who is passionate about designing GenAI experiences for mobile? The Firefly design team is seeking a staff designer to help us build the best next-generation mobile tools for creativity. Our collaborative team designs the vision for future possibilities while partnering closely with engineers and scientists. We believe GenAI should accelerate creativity and not replace it; this role is to play a key role in designing that future on mobile devices.

What you’ll do

As an influential member on our team, you will be an integral part of designing comprehensive experiences to transform the future of Firefly on mobile devices. Because what we do involves many partner teams, we need someone who is motivated by collaboration and driving progress toward the best solutions through partnership and innovation.

In this role, you will:

• Be a subject matter expert in designing Firefly for mobile devices.

• Help define and communicate clear strategy and vision in a relatable, inspirational, and simple way to understand.

• Proactively reach out and listen to the creative community, reading between the lines to

connect friction points to experience solutions.

• Operate at multiple altitudes; move seamlessly from designing pixel level details to high level vision.

• Find opportunities to create simplicity out of complexity. Make a plan and take action in

ambiguous circumstances.

• Explore design ideas via sketches, storyboards, wireframes, and prototypes. Use

Feedback and research to refine and iterate toward product objectives. Pair strong communication skills with a user centered perspective in order to influence and persuade. Move from big picture, to tiny details with ease and grace.

• Dig in with prototypers, engineers and researchers to understand the capabilities of new

and developing technologies to match user needs.

• Proactively collaborate across multiple teams to align on strategy and extend design

Patterns.

What you need to succeed

Must haves:

• A background and understanding of creative tooling for imagery, video and/or audio for

mobile devices

• A history of designing for and launching complex, yet intuitive products

• College degree or equivalent practical experience in design with an emphasis on graphic design, HCI, or related design field

• Mastery of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, XD and other design tools such as Keynote,

Sketch, or Figma

• Ability to build functional prototypes to test with users and or work closely with

prototypers

• Experience working closely and iteratively with engineering teams to bring the vision to

life

• Very strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills and storytelling skills

• Willingness and ability to be a part of the creative spirit of the Adobe Design team

• Excellent design craft and the ability to blend that with a strong intuition for business

Nice to haves:

• Prior experience crafting mobile products for the video, animation and/or audio space

and/or GenAI, platform experiences, and/or systems.

• Deep knowledge around and passion for accessible and inclusive design

How to apply

To be considered for this role, please submit your resume and portfolio. We’d especially like to see strong systems thinking, elegant design solutions, how you collaborate across teams, including engineering & product, and a proven ability to adapt your designs based on what you learn.

About Adobe Design

Adobe Design creates tools that amplify the world’s ability to create and communicate. We’re a distributed 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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently b