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The opportunity

Adobe Design is looking for a Product Designer to join the Document Cloud team, focused on growth for Acrobat Mobile. This role is a good fit if you find yourself interested in how products grow, not just how they look and feel, and you want to build your skills at the intersection of design, user behavior, and business outcomes.
You will contribute to growth experiments, onboarding flows, and mobile experiences that directly affect how users engage with Acrobat. You will work within an established design team, alongside experienced designers, with real ownership of design deliverables and plenty of room to develop.
Adobe Document Cloud products, including Adobe Acrobat, Sign, and Scan, are used by more than 600 million monthly active users, and Document Cloud is the fastest growing cloud at Adobe. The design team has a strong record of recognized innovation, honored by TIME as a Best Invention in 2023 for Liquid Mode and in 2024 for Acrobat AI Assistant, and named by Fast Company as one of the Most Innovative Companies in Applied AI.
You are a designer who is curious about business, not just craft. You find funnels interesting. You notice when a product loses people and you want to understand why. You read activation rates the way others read design critiques, and you care about whether your work actually moved something, not just whether it shipped.
You are still early in your career, but you already think about design decisions in terms of the user behavior they are trying to shape and the business outcome they are trying to drive. You are comfortable working within established parameters and with guidance from more senior designers, and you are motivated to grow quickly in an environment where design and data work together.
What you'll do

• Contribute to growth design work across Acrobat Mobile, including onboarding flows, entry points, engagement surfaces, and retention features, working within established design patterns and with guidance from senior designers.

• Produce sketches, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes to communicate design concepts clearly to your team.

• Engage with funnel and behavioral data alongside your partners, developing your ability to identify where users drop off and translate those signals into design hypotheses.

• Support experiments by designing test variations, paying attention to what each variation is trying to learn, and helping document outcomes.

• Connect your design decisions to the user behavior and business metric they are intended to influence, and communicate that reasoning clearly in team reviews.

• Apply mobile design patterns consistently across iOS and Android, with close attention to detail in behaviors, terminology, and platform standards.

• Participate in user research activities and bring what you learn back into your design thinking.

• Track and incorporate feedback from collaborators, design leads, and your manager throughout the design process.

What you need to succeed

Must-haves:

• 2+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating solid UX craft and clear interaction thinking.

• Genuine interest in growth as a design domain. You should be able to speak to why it interests you, not just that you have been exposed to it.

• Curiosity about business metrics and user behavior. You do not need to be a data expert, but you should be comfortable asking questions of data and motivated to develop that muscle.

• Ability to produce work at multiple fidelities, from quick sketches and wireframes to polished high-fidelity mockups and prototypes.

• Knowledge of mobile design principles and an understanding of iOS and Android platform conventions.

• Proficiency in Figma, with ability to express design concepts at high fidelity.

• Good communication skills and a collaborative working style. You share work early and welcome critique.

• Ability to manage your own time within a project schedule and meet design deadlines reliably.

• A genuine passion for mobile, an active curiosity about how the landscape is shifting, and a point of view on what it means for the people using these products.

Nice-to-haves:

• Some exposure to growth, PLG, activation, or conversion design work, even in a supporting or self-directed capacity.

• Familiarity with A/B testing concepts or basic experimentation workflows.

• Experience designing for document or productivity applications.

• Curiosity about AI-assisted design and development tools, such as Cursor, Replit, or Claude Code.

• A degree in design is not required. A strong portfolio and resume will speak for themselves.

Preferred Accessibility Skills:

• Growing awareness of accessible and inclusive design practices.

• Familiarity with WCAG conformance criteria and interest in applying them in design reviews and critiques.

About Adobe Design

Adobe Design is the multidisciplinary, global organization behind Adobe experiences. Our full-stack team includes design researchers, design engineers, experience designers, brand designers, content strategists, and program managers dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences for Adobe users.

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.

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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 $101,200 -- $201,950 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 $139,400 - $201,950 In Washington, the pay range for this position is $127,800 - $185,100

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

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