Sr Staff Designer, Acrobat Cloud Foundations

Adobe Systems Incorporated • San Jose, CA

48d

About The Position

Do you have a passion for well-crafted digital experiences, pixel-perfect UI designs, and solving design problems at scale? We're looking for a Senior Staff Designer to lead our Foundations effort within Document Cloud. This role will drive the evolution of our design systems, standards, and infrastructure, ensuring our experiences are consistent, accessible, and scalable across the entire ecosystem. You'll shape the foundational layer that unites our products enabling designers and engineers to work with greater velocity and craft. This is a highly collaborative and technically grounded role that sits at the intersection of design excellence, systems thinking, and engineering integration.

Requirements

• 8+ years of proven experience in product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing your expertise in design systems
• Prior experience leading design systems and a track record of for solving complex design problems at scale.
• Deep expertise in UI architecture, component design, responsive systems, and multi-platform UX.
• Expert-level proficiency with Figma and Figma libraries
• A collaborative and open-minded outlook, and a high degree of comfort working in a fast-paced environment
• Creative and analytical skills to facilitate workshops and communicate insights that inspire design opportunities
• Excellent interpersonal, written, verbal communication skills
• Ability to effectively collaborate with engineering partners to ensure coded components meet design specifications and intent
• Ability to communicate design strategy and rationale effectively and concisely to all functions and levels of the organization
• Comfort mentoring, encouraging an inclusive and empowering environment for other designers to do innovative and impactful work by leveraging the systems you help create.
• Experience designing systems that enable accessible and inclusive interfaces for people with disabilities upholding WCAG conformance.

Nice To Haves

• 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

• Lead the evolution of Document Cloud's design system, defining the standards, components, and design tokens that power our experiences.
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate design standards into code, ensuring high-quality implementation across platforms.
• Define and document design principles, interaction patterns, and accessibility standards that unify Acrobat, Express, and related products.
• Create and maintain tools and workflows that enable designers and developers to build efficiently and consistently.
• Apply human-centric design and system-thinking expertise to create future-forward ideas, designs, guidelines, and more to Acrobat's ecosystem
• Partner with product teams across Acrobat and Adobe to guide our product experience, foster contribution from product experts, and enable successful adoption of foundations as the product evolves
• Be an advocate for accessibility standards and inclusive design and ensure our foundations overall accessibility compliance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees