
Senior Staff Product Designer, Emerging Agents
Adobe
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $158,000 - $301,050 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead major initiatives within our agentic systems work, translating emerging AI capabilities into production-ready interaction patterns and driving a coherent vision across research, engineering, and product.
- Establish mental models for delegation, collaboration, and control between humans and AI agents.
- Design interaction frameworks for multi-step workflows and tool-using skills.
- Design mechanisms that make reasoning legible, including confidence indicators, provenance, and evaluation UX.
- Build patterns that balance prompt-based and structured interaction.
- Write and refine prompts, skills, system instructions, and behavioral constraints.
- Prototype in code and contribute to production implementations alongside engineering.
- Rapidly iterate through build → test → refine cycles in close partnership with research and engineering.
- Ensure agent behaviors align with real creative processes and tooling needs.
- Partner closely with engineering, research, and product to deliver production systems.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in product, systems, or interaction design.
- Demonstrated experience designing and shipping AI-assisted or agent-based systems.
- Experience designing for creative tools or deep familiarity with creative workflows.
- Hands-on experience working with large language models and designing adaptive or generative interfaces.
- Comfort prototyping in code and contributing production-quality implementations alongside engineering teams.
- Strong systems thinking and experience working within complex, cross-functional environments.
- Experience designing enterprise AI workflows.
- Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration patterns.
- Experience integrating first- and third-party AI systems.
- Background in automation design, developer tooling, or platform ecosystems.
- Accessibility expertise in AI-driven interfaces.
- 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
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
AI-assisted systemsagent-based systemslarge language modelsadaptive interfacesgenerative interfacesautomation designdeveloper toolingplatform ecosystemsinteraction designmulti-agent orchestration
Soft Skills
systems thinkingcollaborationcommunicationleadershipcreativityproblem-solvingiterationcross-functional teamworkuser experience designaccessibility expertise
Certifications
CPACCWASCPWAADS