COMPLETE Director of Research & Strategy, Adobe Design - San Francisco

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

Adobe is looking for Director of Research & Strategy for the Document Cloud portfolio. You will lead a group of passionate and hard-working experience researchers/strategists who craft experiences across web, mobile, and desktop applications while using AI/ML technologies enabling individual and business productivity. Working closely with Design, Product and Engineering executives, you will provide strategic design and product direction, feedback to the design and engineering teams to uplevel craft, and find resolution to ambiguous problem spaces across the entire Document Cloud, including Acrobat, Signatures, and AI solutions.

What you’ll do

• Coach and mentor experience researchers, hire and attract top-notch talent to the team, and foster a culture where the researchers grown, learn and do their best work.
• Build a collaborative environment and encourage deep partnership with cross-functional teams, setting a high bar for research craft, and define and execute design strategy for redesigns, 1.0s, and lead all aspects of research execution across releases on multiple platforms.
• Contribute to the product strategy discussions through deep customer research and design partnerships to bring visions to life.
• Incite action in cross-functional partners to deliver better user and business outcomes.
• Guide the teams in weekly, monthly and quarterly product releases

What you need to succeed

• 10+ years of equivalent practical experience of managing researchers and strategists, managing research leaders is a plus.
• Lead empathetically, fostering an inclusive and empowering environment for the research team to do innovative and impactful work
• Phenomenal oral and written communication skills are a pre-requisite.
• Articulate research findings and implications/strategy through solid, strategic presentations
• Be an effective facilitator across product-design-research-engineering teams in early stages of key projects.
• Deep expertise in strategic problem framing and solving problems
• Embody a learner and mentor mentality
• Champion for customer-centric and holistic design at all levels in the organization 
• Experience working with executives on ambiguous problems and crafting big picture strategies driven by deep user understanding. Phenomenal oral and written communication skills are a pre-requisite.

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 $149,100 -- $288,500 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.

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