Graphics Designer/Art Director 4

Adobe•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Adobe Creative is seeking an exceptional Senior Multidisciplinary Designer to create beautifully crafted, culturally relevant work across Adobe Creative’s output. This role involves working across campaigns, multi-platform design, product storytelling, motion, and live experiences, moving confidently between early visual exploration, design development, and polished final execution. The designer will collaborate with leaders, creatives, strategists, and product partners to transform ideas into distinctive visual expressions that are recognizably Adobe yet avoid repetition. The position emphasizes combining exceptional design craft with curiosity for emerging technology, utilizing Creative Cloud, Firefly, and AI-enabled workflows to enhance exploration, prototyping, and the creation of impactful work while maintaining taste, originality, and human judgment. The ideal candidate is a maker first, with a deep appreciation for typography, image-making, composition, and the details that bring an idea to completion.

Requirements

Consider yourself a maker first.
AI fluency is how you work, not a skill you are developing.
6+ years of experience in design, art direction, or multidisciplinary creative practice.
A standout portfolio demonstrating exceptional design craft across multi-platform campaigns and product storytelling.
Deep expertise in typography, layout, image-making, and visual composition.
Strong fluency across digital, motion, and emerging design practices.
Strong conceptual thinking and the ability to carry an idea from exploration through final execution.
Experience working across both high-velocity creative and highly crafted flagship work.
Experience applying brand systems in ways that feel distinctive and alive.
Strong systems thinking and experience creating modular frameworks, templates, or reusable creative tools.
Fluency with Adobe Creative Cloud, Firefly, and AI-enabled visual workflows.
A clear perspective on how generative AI changes visual exploration, authorship, and production.
Experience working within multidisciplinary teams and collaborating with Copy, Motion, Strategy, and Production.
Strong presentation, communication, and collaboration skills.
A genuine and current understanding of culture, design, art, technology, and emerging visual practices.
The ability to balance speed, experimentation, and craft.
A maker attitude, curiosity, and a commitment to continuously improving the work.

Responsibilities

Design across campaigns, multi-platform design, product storytelling, and live experiences.
Develop work from early concept and visual exploration through design development and final execution.
Apply exceptional craft across typography, image-making, layout, composition, and art direction.
Work across high-velocity everyday output and highly crafted flagship work.
Adapt strong ideas across channels and formats without losing their intelligence or visual impact.
Create work that feels connected and recognizably Adobe while remaining fresh, distinctive, and culturally relevant.
Partner with Creative Directors, Design Directors, and Art Directors to develop visual territories and creative systems.
Translate campaign and creative ideas into compelling art direction and design expression.
Collaborate with Copywriters to develop visual and verbal ideas as one connected creative system.
Create mood boards, prototypes, and design studies that help teams explore and align early.
Build scalable creative systems, including modular frameworks, templates, and reusable design tools.
Help translate Adobe’s brand system into distinctive creative expression across real work.
Test how design ideas perform across channels, formats, and audience needs.
Find opportunities to improve tools and workflows based on real creative applications.
Use Creative Cloud, Firefly, and emerging generative tools throughout concepting, prototyping, and production.
Use AI-enabled workflows to expand visual exploration and accelerate iteration without lowering the standard.
Apply human judgment, taste, and craft to all AI-assisted work.
Help define where AI can support scale and where human authorship and intervention remain essential.
Test emerging Adobe capabilities through real creative work and share useful feedback with Product teams.
Apply responsible AI practices, including provenance, creator rights, and Content Credentials.
Collaborate closely with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Copywriters, Motion Designers, Strategists, Producers, Product, and Product Marketing.
Present work clearly, explain design decisions, and respond constructively to feedback.
Partner with Production to carry ideas into execution while protecting their creative intent.
Collaborate with photographers, illustrators, artists, studios, and specialist partners when needed.
Maintain a high design standard through fast timelines, multiple workstreams, and changing priorities.
Take ownership of your work while contributing generously to the ideas and development of the wider team.