Sr Staff Designer, Product Equity
Adobe Software
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P55EMPLOYEE ROLE
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At Adobe, we define product equity as a state in which every person, regardless of human difference, can access and harness the power of digital products without harm, bias or limitation—this is also our team’s vision. Our mission is to drive more equitable outcomes across all Adobe products, services, and communities.
Adobe’s Product Equity team is seeking a Senior Staff Experience Designer with deep accessibility expertise to join as a key design team member and inspiring leader. This role is vital for driving strategy, conception, and applying co-design practices to develop new product experiences at the intersection of innovation and equity.
A successful candidate will have a proven track record for crafting and shipping accessible, global experiences. You'll set the bar for accessibility excellence, influencing product strategy, design systems, and implementation at scale. You’ll work cross-functionally with product, engineering, research, and content teams to embed accessibility as a foundational design principle—not an afterthought. You will be empowered to define and communicate strategy and vision in relatable, inspirational, and simple ways, showing possibilities through craft-led storytelling. Your role involves building mockups, storyboards, prototypes, and design principles to encourage enthusiasm for new concepts.
What you'll do
Partner with executive leadership to define and communicate clear strategy, craft visions for products and experiences and share with senior executives using your storytelling skills.
Lead cross-organizational initiatives that prioritize accessibility across platforms and products.
Collaborate with designers to integrate accessibility considerations into design processes from the beginning.
Contribute accessible UI components, patterns, and documentation for Adobe’s industry-leading Design System.
Collaborate with engineers to ensure accessibility is implemented accurately and efficiently.
Be the example for how design teams build more inclusive end-to-end user experiences.
Lead brainstorming sessions and encourage creative thinking with various collaborators.
Explore experience design concepts via sketches, storyboards, journey maps, hi-fidelity mockups, prototypes, or animations for a wide range of projects, technologies, and devices.
Dig in with prototypers, engineers, and researchers to understand the capabilities of new and developing technologies and emergent user needs.
Proactively collaborate across multiple teams to align on strategy and extend design patterns.
Reach out and listen to the creative community, reading between the lines to connect friction points to experience solutions.
What you need to succeed
Proven experience and/or training in design or a related field, with an emphasis on experience design, digital product design and/or UX design.
Proven track record of shipping high-quality, accessible products.
Critical thinking and systems-level design expertise, particularly in scaling accessibility across teams.
Proven track record crafting accessible experiences across web and mobile platforms.
Ability to independently build compelling presentation decks or videos, present inspiring concept pitches and identify tools & approaches that drive the ideas to product outcomes.
The ability to develop and share new approaches and frameworks to drive innovative outcomes.
The ability to collaborate and advise open-ended design projects that may be ambiguous or ill-defined in their early stages.
Proficiency in many forms of human difference, including aging, disability, race, Indigeneity, gender and sexuality, and economic status.
Share your unique perspective daily and uplift others' experiences.
Strong leadership and mentoring abilities, with a focus on educating and guiding teams on accessibility.
(Preferred) IAAP certification (CPACC, WAS, or CPWA) or equivalent accessibility credentials.
Preferred Accessibility Design Skills:
Experience designing accessible and inclusive interfaces for people with disabilities.
Understanding of applying WCAG conformance criteria in design, specifically testing comps, wireframes, and prototypes for accessibility standards.
Accessibility certifications CPACC, WAS, CPWA, or ADS from the IAAP preferred.
Join us
Adobe believes that diverse experiences and backgrounds make us stronger. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement or have every skill listed, we encourage you to apply. Your outstanding perspectives, talents, and experiences could be just what our team needs. If you are passionate about making a significant impact on product equity, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
How to apply
Must have an online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating relevant examples to be considered for this position. If your portfolio is password protected, please provide the password in your submission.
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.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $157,300 -- $292,200 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
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