Adobe Inc.

Sr Visual Designer, Aqua

Adobe Inc.$161K — $234K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of visual design experience with a strong portfolio in illustration and art direction.
  • Experience designing products for children or playful audiences, with a focus on joyful design.
  • Advanced skills in illustration, color, typography, and composition with a unique style.
  • Ability to create and enforce visual style guides for consistency across teams.
  • Experience directing and collaborating with other artists and designers, providing constructive feedback.
  • Proficient in design software like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Figma, with openness to AI tools.
  • Strong communication abilities to effectively convey visual concepts to various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve Aqua's visual identity across digital platforms.
  • Create original illustrations and artwork that enhance the user experience.
  • Build and maintain comprehensive visual style guides for internal use.
  • Review and direct work from other illustrators to ensure adherence to brand standards.
  • Collaborate with product teams to integrate the visual system into the user experience.
  • Experiment with visual ideas through mood boards and quick sketches for potential directions.
  • Research visual trends that appeal to children and families, applying findings to design work.

Benefits

  • Work in a creative and innovative environment focused on kid-friendly products.
  • Opportunity to shape the visual identity of an impactful product used by families worldwide.
  • Collaboration with a diverse team of creatives and technologists.
  • Possibility to explore new tools and technologies in design and illustration.
Full Job Description
The opportunity

Aqua is building the next generation of creative experiences for kids and families, combining thoughtful product design with emerging technologies to make creativity more accessible, inspiring, and fun.

We're looking for a Senior Visual Designer to define and craft the visual world of Aqua across web, iOS, and Android.

You'll set the look and feel of the product and the world: illustration style, color, motion, and imagery that make Aqua feel warm, playful, and unmistakably its own. You'll create artwork yourself and build style guides that will allow a broader team of illustrators and designers extend that world consistently. This is a craft-first role for someone who wants their visual language to become the identity of a product used by kids around the world.

What you'll do
  • Define and evolve Aqua's visual identity, including illustration style, color palette, typography, iconography, and motion, across web, iOS, and Android.

  • Create original illustrations, graphics, and artwork that bring Aqua's characters, environments, and moments of delight to life.

  • Build and maintain visual style guides that document the Aqua visual language in enough detail for other designers and illustrators to work within it confidently.

  • Direct and review artwork from illustrators and contract designers, giving clear feedback to keep every asset on-brand and on-quality.

  • Partner with product designers and engineers to apply the visual system across UI, marketing surfaces, and in-app moments, including onboarding, empty states, rewards, and celebrations.

  • Explore new visual directions through mood boards, style frames, and quick illustration studies to pressure-test ideas before they're locked in.

  • Stay attuned to what resonates visually with kids and families, and translate that sensibility into design decisions rather than adult-oriented trends.

  • Collaborate with engineering to ensure illustrations and visual assets are production-ready, performant, and implemented faithfully.

What you need to succeed

Must-haves:

  • 5+ years of visual design experience with a strong portfolio demonstrating illustration, art direction, and the ability to define a cohesive visual identity for a product or brand.

  • Demonstrated experience designing for children, families, or playful consumer audiences, with an intuitive sense of what feels joyful and age-appropriate versus generic or overly juvenile.

  • Deep craft skill in illustration, color, typography, and composition, with a portfolio that shows range and a distinctive point of view.

  • Experience creating and documenting visual style guides that others can execute against.

  • Experience directing or collaborating with external illustrators or designers, giving actionable feedback that keeps work consistent with a defined style.

  • Proficiency in industry-standard design and illustration tools (for example, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma) and openness to AI-assisted creative workflows.

  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate visual rationale to product, engineering, and leadership audiences.

  • Comfort working across web, iOS, and Android, understanding how illustration and visual systems adapt across platforms and screen sizes.

Nice-to-haves:

  • Experience with motion or animated illustration (character animation, micro-interactions, or animated onboarding).

  • Background in children's media, publishing, or entertainment (picture books, animation, edutainment).

  • Familiarity with accessibility considerations in color and typography for young or diverse audiences.

Preferred Accessibility Design Skills:

  • Experience designing accessible and inclusive interfaces for people with disabilities.

  • Familiarity with WCAG standards and testing for accessibility compliance.

  • Certifications such as CPACC, WAS, CPWA, or ADS from IAAP are a plus.

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 positionis $124,600 -- $234,250 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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 $161,800 - $234,250

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.

About Adobe Inc.

The Omniture product suite provides an integrated set of services: advanced web analytics and segmentation (SiteCatalyst, Discover and Data Warehouse), search marketing (SearchCenter), optimization (Advanced Testing and Targeting -- Offermatica and TouchClarity), and the marketing integration platform (Genesis). They also have an iPhone application that allows customers to sign into their Omniture account and view statistics from anywhere.

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