Group Product Design Manager, Assets & Brands

Adobe•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Adobe is expanding its Design team to focus on creating core brand and asset management experiences, enabling individuals and enterprises to organize, protect, and showcase creative assets. This role offers an exciting chance to develop innovative solutions for consistent and engaging product experiences across Adobe's portfolio, including intuitive tools for brand governance, asset libraries, and collaborative workflows for millions of users globally. The Group Design Manager will lead a distributed team of designers, addressing strategic challenges, empowering teams to achieve excellent results, and enhancing cross-functional partnerships. This position is key in defining the evolution of asset and brand experiences in response to new technological trends, business needs, and customer expectations. Adobe Design is a global team of designers, researchers, prototypers, content strategists, and program managers who create tools across Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud. Adobe empowers creativity, productivity, and personalized customer experiences through platforms and tools like Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio, all powered by AI and human ingenuity. With over 30,000 employees worldwide, Adobe is committed to fostering a culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact and contribute great ideas.

Requirements

6+ years of experience leading design within a matrixed organization, and a proven track record of success influencing across multiple teams.
A deep understanding of creative workflows, ideally within asset management and the creation and consumption of on-brand content or a related domain.
Agility player who thrives in ambiguity and can drive progress, build alignment, and adapt to evolving platform strategies, shifting priorities, and emerging technologies.
High ownership leader who can balance strategic vision with execution rigor and can easily navigate both altitudes.
Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex ideas to different audiences and levels of the organization
Demonstrated experience mentoring and fostering an inclusive environment that empowers designers to innovate and deliver impactful work.

Responsibilities

Set a high bar for design excellence, from strategic framing to detailed execution, and oversee day-to-day team operations (e.g. syncs, critiques, reviews) to deliver high-quality work.
Proactively identify uncharted business opportunities and pair high-level strategy with actionable execution, influencing roadmaps and long-term investment decisions.
Foster a trust-based, collaborative environment that encourages deep partnerships across teams to drive alignment on key experiences.
Bring chaos to clarity by connecting dots, mobilizing the team, and prioritizing the highest impact work.
Hire, develop, and retain exceptional talent through mentorship and growth, and serve as a design leader who leads the evolution in how we work in the AI era.
Champion creativity and innovation to experiment, prototype, build and deliver valuable customer-centric solutions.
Represent the team and its work to diverse partners and senior leadership, modeling design excellence through clear communication and compelling storytelling.