Director of Research & Strategy
Adobe
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • Oregon • United States
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Salary
💰 $169,700 - $323,350 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead a group of passionate and hard-working researchers and strategists shaping experiences across web, mobile, and desktop applications to develop a rich Adobe Express ecosystem.
- Partner closely with Design, Product and Engineering executives.
- 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 Express ecosystem.
- Build and lead a high-performing research and strategy team; coaching senior talent, attracting top-tier leaders, and fostering a culture of rigor, growth, and impact.
- Build a collaborative environment and encourage deep partnership with cross-functional teams, setting a high bar for research craft and embedding research into strategic planning and execution.
- Define and execute research strategy for redesigns, new audiences and product directions, and lead all aspects of research execution across releases on multiple platforms.
- Contribute to product strategy discussions through deep customer research and design partnerships to bring visions to life.
- Influence cross-functional leaders to act on insights, driving measurable improvements in user and business outcomes.
Requirements
- 10+ years of equivalent practical experience of managing researchers, strategists, and research leaders.
- Experience working directly with executives on ambiguous problems and crafting big picture strategies grounded in deep user understanding.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills are a pre-requisite; able to tailor narratives and presentations for executive, product and design audiences.
- Have leveraged AI solutions as part of an overall research program
- Connect research to business strategy, framing insights as actionable recommendations that resonate with executive audiences.
- Be an effective facilitator across product-design-research-engineering teams in early stages of key projects and initiatives.
- Deep expertise in strategic problem framing and solving problems.
- Embody a learner and mentor mentality; actively grow senior researchers and emerging leaders.
- Champion for customer-centric and holistic design at all levels in the organization.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
research strategyuser researchproduct strategystrategic problem framingAI solutionsdesign partnershipsresearch executioncross-platform developmentdata analysiscustomer insights
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationcoachingfacilitationmentorshipstrategic thinkingproblem-solvinginfluencecustomer-centric mindset