Staff Experience Designer

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!

We are looking for a Staff Experience Designer to join us! Our team is focused on helping people tell stories through video, motion, and audio. Through our products, we support a wide range of creatives - from high-end Hollywood professionals to emerging voices.

We are building the tools that allow anyone to bring their ideas and stories to life.We are looking for high-craft, technically-minded designer to help us design the future of Premiere Pro, our flagship video editing application.

Are you passionate about video editing and empowering storytellers? Do you like designing creative tools with complex workflows? Come join us!

• Work with a multidisciplinary team to conceptualize and design solutions to bring new video editing capabilities to Premiere Pro users.

• In-depth knowledge of user-centered design principles and best practices for desktop design.

• Present and articulate design concepts and decisions to stakeholders and executive leaders.

• Proactively engage with multiple cross-functional partners, including product managers, engineers, user researchers, and prototypers to bring your designs to life at deliver them to customers at a high quality bar.

• Convey design ideas and end-to-end user experience via sketches, storyboards, hi-fidelity mockups, and prototypes.

• Be the voice of the user, balancing product requirements, feedback from users, and business objectives.

• Collaborate with prototypers, engineers, and researchers to understand the capabilities of new and developing technologies and emergent user needs.

• Facilitate design sprints and drive alignment with product and engineering partners and designers from across Creative Cloud

Must-have:

• A degree or equivalent experience in a design-related field (HCI, interaction, visual), or comparable work experience.

• Detail-oriented and technical approach with exceptional problem-solving skills, capable of working independently.

• Enduring curiosity with a track record of shipping outstanding designs.

• Ability to grasp the essence of complex design problems and translate them to practical design solutions.

• Ability to proficiently facilitate brainstorming sessions, cultivate the creative thinking process, create compelling presentation decks or videos, and present articulate concept pitches.

• Ability to accept and design against feedback from colleagues in a rapid iterative design process, and effectively produce multiple highly polished and professional finished works under tight timeline.

• Proficient in fundamental visual & interaction design principles.

• Experience with Adobe tools like Premiere, After Effects, Audition, Photoshop - and other design & prototyping tools such as Keynote, Sketch, Origami, or Figma.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentations skills, with the ability to clearly articulate a problem space and discuss designs with cross-functional leadership teams.

• A deep love of design and a passion for empowering storytellers and video creators.

• Ability to function as a bridge between design and cross-functional partners to move large cross-team projects forward.

Nice-to-have:

• Deep experience working with video, motion, and audio tools - either in the film industry or for personal projects

• Enthusiasm, interest, and prior experience using AI in your design process

• Experience mentoring, encouraging an inclusive and empowering environment for other designers to do innovative and impactful work.

Adobe Design crafts tools that amplify the world’s ability to build 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.

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