Staff Product Designer, Firefly Site

The opportunity 

Creativity is deeply human—and crafting AI tools that empower it demands clarity, care, and strong design leadership. The Firefly Site creative team seeks a Staff Product Designer to lead the development of intuitive, expressive experiences that help people discover, understand, and adopt Firefly’s AI-powered creative tools.

In this role, you’ll bring cohesion across Firefly’s ecosystem by blending product strategy, UX systems, visual craft, and AI literacy. You’ll thrive in complexity, guide teams through ambiguity, and advocate for users with confidence, empathy, and purpose

What you'll do

• Design connected, approachable experiences that help users discover, understand, and trust AI‑powered creative tools

• Lead with high craft across UX architecture and UI, ensuring AI interactions feel intentional, transparent, and human

• Partner closely with product, engineering, data science, and marketing to align strategy and execution

• Prototype early and often—using interactive prototypes to explore, test, and validate AI‑driven workflows

• Champion clarity and cohesion across Firefly surfaces through systems thinking and design leadership

• Present design direction to senior leaders with confidence, grounding decisions in customer insight and AI understanding

What you need to succeed 

• A portfolio showing exceptional UX and visual design across responsive, multi‑surface experiences

• Proven experience leading design within large, cross‑functional organizations

• Hands‑on experience crafting AI‑powered products or tools, including working directly with AI capabilities and constraints

• Proficiency in prototyping (low‑ to high‑fidelity) to explore and communicate complex interactions

• Experience designing for user acquisition, onboarding, or adoption of sophisticated products

• Mastery of modern design and prototyping tools (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.)

• Excellent communication skills and a deep commitment to inclusive, accessible 

Preferred Accessibility Design Skills:

• 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.

How to apply

Submit your resume and portfolio. We’re especially interested in examples that demonstrate how you’ve shaped AI powered experiences through prototyping, partnered closely with cross functional teams, and navigated complexity to deliver clear, human centered solutions.

About Adobe Design

Adobe Design builds 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.
 

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 

Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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 protected characteristic. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call +1 408-536-3015. 

AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

 

Expected Pay Range:

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 $146,300 -- $274,300 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.

 



In California, the pay range for this position is $189,400 - $274,300


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:

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Colorado:

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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:

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