Sr Product Designer, Foundations

Adobe•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Are you passionate about solving design problems at scale, and crafting simple and elegant solutions for complex problems? Adobe Design is seeking a Product Designer to join Document Cloud Foundations and work on the design system. Your work will ultimately benefit millions of Adobe customers — helping Adobe’s designers and engineering teams deliver great products and services. As a senior team member, you’ll participate in key technical planning activities, such as feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery expectations. Team members participate in key planning activities, such as feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating experience designing or contributing to a design system at scale and cross-platform.
Familiarity with design tokens, theming, and scalable styling systems.
Experience collaborating on or contributing to component libraries (e.g., Storybook, Figma libraries, or similar tools).
Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and how to apply them systematically across components.
A history of close collaboration with design, product management, software development, and users from ideation through implementation.
Strong documentation skills, with an ability to create clear, scalable guidance for diverse audiences.
Comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving spaces, especially early-stage system work.

Nice To Haves

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate a multi-level problem space and strategy behind design decisions to stakeholders of all levels.
Working knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or frameworks like React) and how design systems are implemented in code.
Experience defining governance models, contribution workflows, or adoption strategies for design systems.
Experience influencing without authority across multiple teams and product areas.
Experience measuring and improving design system adoption and impact.
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.

Responsibilities

0→1 design system efforts for an emerging team within Document Cloud, defining system architecture, foundational primitives, components, and scalable patterns.
Design, document, and maintain reusable UI components, interaction patterns, and guidelines that ensure consistency and quality across products.
Partner closely with engineering to align on implementation strategies, tokens, and component APIs.
Establish and evolve design system principles, standards, and contribution models to support long-term scalability and governance.
Audit existing product experiences to identify inconsistencies, redundancies, and opportunities for systematization.
Collaborate with product designers to translate product requirements into flexible, extensible system solutions.
Champion accessibility, inclusivity, and performance as core principles within the design system.
Mentor other designers on systems thinking, component design, and best practices for working with a design system.