The opportunityYou will lead and shape design strategy across Acrobat's mobile surfaces, evolving some of Adobe's most successful products while creating the conditions for your team to completely reinvent them. Document Cloud is Adobe's fastest-growing cloud, reaching over 650 million monthly active users through products including Acrobat, Sign, and Scan. Our legacy of innovation speaks for itself: TIME's Best Invention two years running, and a Fast Company top 10 spot in Applied AI for 2026.
You are the kind of leader people want to follow. You build environments where designers develop strong points of view, feel safe taking creative risks, and grow into the best versions of themselves. You know that the work only gets better when the people doing it feel seen, challenged, and genuinely supported.
This is not a role for someone who needs the path clear before they start moving. It is for a design leader who inspires while rallying others, thrives in ambiguity, brings rigor to big ideas, and can hold complex systems and the human moment at the same time.
If you are ready to influence how the world works at scale, invest deeply in the people who will help get it there, and leave something lasting behind, we would love to meet you.
What you'll do - Grow and establish a user-centric design practice where designers develop and represent confident POVs; focusing on long-term vision and near-term goals.
- Partner with product and engineering to envision the possibilities and opportunities for on-the-go knowledge experiences.
- Build an impactful collaborative environment and encourage deep partnerships with cross-functional teams, setting a high bar for design craft, conceiving, defining, and driving design strategy.
- Work across a complex product space, serving as a champion for cohesive workflows and empowering your team to drive alignment among collaborators.
- Jump in on key workstreams, being responsible for directing the strategy and execution for high-impact projects.
- Drive a team-wide design process, collaborating closely with program management.
- Represent the team and the team's work to executives.
- Coach and mentor designers, attract design talent to the team, and hire, grow, retain, and promote designers.
What you need to succeed - Empathetic leadership to cultivate an inclusive and empowering environment for the designers to do innovative and impactful work.
- A deep understanding of creative workflows and personal experience working as a creative with deep connections to the creative community.
- A background in leading a mobile design team and succeeding within a matrix global organization that operates across world-wide timezones.
- Experience influencing and championing user-centric design across functions.
- A track record for working with executives on ambiguous problems and crafting big-picture strategies driven by design.
- The ability to facilitate collaboration across product/design/engineering teams in the early stages of strategic projects. This may sometimes involve driving design thinking workshops.
- Deep expertise in problem framing from customers' point of view and solving problems through storytelling and high design craft.
- Socializing new insights and ideas with design rationale grounded in user research and business goals. Your leadership will incite the team to act for better user and business outcomes. You will need to have excellent written, oral, presentation and storytelling skills to be successful.
- A genuine curiosity about how AI is reshaping end-to-end design workflows, and a track record of experimenting with new tools and methods before they become standard practice.
- Experience designing or leading design for mobile or other constrained contexts, with an instinct for what makes small-screen experiences feel effortless rather than just functional.
- A curiosity about how people discover, adopt, and get value from products on mobile, and a desire to influence that full arc through design.
