Sr Product Designer, Design Systems Foundations

About the role

Adobe Design is seeking a Product Designer to join Document Cloud Foundations. This role involves participating in key technical planning activities and leading 1-to-1 design system efforts for an emerging team.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and maintain reusable UI components, interaction patterns, and guidelines ensuring consistency and quality across products.
• Partner closely with engineering to align on implementation strategies, tokens, and component APIs.
• Establish and evolve design system principles, standards, and contribution models to support long-term scalability and governance.
• Audit existing product experiences to identify inconsistencies, redundancies, and opportunities for systematization.
• Collaborate with product designers to translate product requirements into flexible, extensible system solutions.
• Champion accessibility, inclusivity, and performance as core principles within the design system.
• Mentor other designers on systems thinking, component design, and best practices for working with a design system.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating experience designing or contributing to a design system at scale and cross-platform.
• Familiarity with design tokens, theming, and scalable styling systems.
• Experience collaborating on or contributing to component libraries (e.g., Storybook, Figma libraries, or similar tools).
• Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and how to apply them systematically across components.
• A history of close collaboration with design, product management, software development, and users from ideation through implementation.
• Strong documentation skills, with an ability to create clear, scalable guidance for diverse audiences.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving spaces, especially early-stage system work.

Nice-to-Haves

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate a multi-level problem space and strategy behind design decisions to stakeholders of all levels.
• Working knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or frameworks like React) and how design systems are implemented in code.
• Experience defining governance models, contribution workflows, or adoption strategies for design systems.
• Experience influencing without authority across multiple teams and product areas.
• Experience measuring and improving design system adoption and impact.

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.

Benefits

Adobe offers a competitive compensation package, including a range of $124,600 -- $234,250 annually in the U.S., and $161,800 - $234,250 in California. Additional benefits include 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.

Pay

The expected pay range for this position is $124,600 -- $234,250 annually in the U.S., and $161,800 - $234,250 in California.

Schedule

Details on the schedule are not specified in the job posting.