Job Details

Join to apply for the Director of Design, GenStudio role at Adobe

Our Company: Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The opportunity

Do you see endless opportunities to automate workflows at the intersection of creativity and marketing? In this role you will define the future of creativity and scaled production workflows for Enterprise customers by bringing together best in class Generative AI models and agents, automation workflows, and the power of marketing and creative tools across Adobe.

As the Director of Design, GenStudio for Creative production, you drive the definition and expansion of GenStudio from marketing workflow to creative and marketing automation workflows. You will lead a group of designer professionals to define and develop new GenAI-powered creative, marketing, automation, and production workflows. Through design, you will bring together powerful capabilities from across Adobe into end-to-end experiences for the simplest user and use cases.

Working closely with applied AI research, product and engineering executives, you will provide strategic design direction and feedback to the design and engineering teams to elevate craft and resolve ambiguous problem spaces. You will significantly impact the future of creativity and marketing, while helping to define new opportunities to expand the reach of our tools.

What you'll do

• Vision & Strategy: Define and drive the design vision for Adobe GenStudio, centered on AI-first, agentic workflows. Champion the evolution from traditional creative editing to intelligence-layer design—where AI, data, and human creativity intersect.
• Team Leadership & Building: Act as a player/coach: prototype, tinker, and experiment, while also elevating and mentoring a team of designers.
• Execution & Delivery: Lead end-to-end design across core areas of GenStudio. Partner with engineering to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and performant.
• Innovation & Experimentation: Champion a tinkerer's mindset: experimenting with prototypes, emerging UI patterns (chat + canvas + editor), and new generative AI capabilities. Create spaces for rapid experimentation (Labs-style pilots, internal playtesting, customer co-design).
• Customer-Driven Change Management: Translate evolving customer insights and enterprise feedback into actionable design strategies with focus on short and long-term impact. Advocate for marketer needs and ensure design decisions are grounded in research and real-world usage.
• Collaboration & Influence: Be a trusted partner across Adobe—working with Firefly, Experience Cloud, and enterprise platform teams. Influence senior stakeholders with compelling narratives, prototypes, and strategy docs.

What you'll need to succeed

• 12+ years in product design, with 5+ years in leadership roles.
• Proven track record leading design for complex enterprise products—ideally in marketing, data, or AI.
• Hands-on design and prototyping skills; ability to inspire by showing, not just telling.
• Deep curiosity and comfort working in emerging spaces (AI agents, LLMs, generative interfaces).
• Strong systems thinker, able to simplify complexity into intuitive, composable workflows.
• Passionate about scaling and mentoring design teams; player/coach mindset is essential.
• A leader who balances strategic vision with execution discipline, adapts team structures as needed, and drives customer-driven change management.
• Experience instrumenting design experiments to measure adoption, value, and trust.
• Proven ability to build and scale a high-performing design organization, while remaining flexible with team structures.
• You've driven systems thinking in design—balancing micro-interactions (chat, editor, agent handoff) with macro-flows (marketer journeys, enterprise governance).

Why Adobe GenStudio

• Be at the forefront of AI + marketing design innovation in a trusted, enterprise-ready environment.
• Shape how the world's largest brands transform their marketing workflows with generative AI.
• Work with a passionate, cross-functional team building something new inside Adobe's global platform.

About Adobe Design

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $173,300 -- $323,600 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

State-Specific Notices:

California: Fair Chance Ordinances. Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado: Application Window Notice. If this role is open to hiring in Colorado, the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role is not listed for Colorado, the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts: Massachusetts Legal Notice. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more. If you require accommodation to navigate the website or complete the application process, email ...@adobe.com or call (408) ###-####.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• Industries: Advertising Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Software Development

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Adobe by 2x

Get notified about new Design Director jobs in San Francisco, CA.