Group Design Manager, Adobe Express

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We're looking for a deeply innovative, strategic, and forward-thinking Group Design Manager to join the Adobe Express Design team. In this role, you'll be a champion for seamless, end-to-end user experiences that are scalable, reusable, and inclusive while also driving product growth. You'll help shape the future of storytelling in a world transformed by AI-rethinking workflows and unlocking new creative possibilities for our users and managing a team of talented designers.

About Adobe Express

Adobe Express is on a mission to help business owners, social marketers, communicators, and side hustlers create standout content in minutes. Our design team is passionate about delivering a fast, easy, and fun creative experience that empowers users to bring their ideas to life-beautifully and effortlessly.

Learn more at http://express.adobe.com

• Lead and manage a team of UX designers working across high priority initiatives across Adobe Express.

• Collaborate with visual and interaction designers, researchers, product managers and engineers to deliver a holistic product experience.

• Set and uphold a high bar for design quality, consistency, and innovation.

• Partner with XFN leadership team to co-create product strategy and drive execution.

• Work closely with product managers to ensure we're building useful, beautiful, and effective solutions.

• Develop standard processes for designing and using componentized patterns across a large web ecosystem.

• Engage with Adobe's broader design community to share insights and foster collaboration.

Must-haves:

• 12+ years' experience in digital products across web & mobile platforms.

• 8+ years' experience leading design teams or x-discipline UX teams.

• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, including executives.

• Demonstrated business acumen, a track record of data-informed design and experimentation.

• A track record of fostering inclusive, empowering environments that drive innovation.

• Exceptional communication, presentation, and project management skills.

• A passion for solving complex user problems with elegant, user-centered solutions.

• Strong presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience building AI-related features.

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.

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