Director of Design, Product Led Growth at Marketo, an Adobe Company

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’s mission is to provide ‘Creativity for All,’ and no product is more central to this mission than Adobe Express. Express makes design and content creation fast, fun, and easy for businesses small and large ensuring professional-looking results that stand out, stay on brand, and engage with their audiences. As the Director of Design, you will lead our PLG design team and drive user acquisition, engagement, and monetization for Express.

You are:

An experienced leader with a proven track record of successfully managing large distributed (and global) design teams. You possess a strong business sense, display competence in driving quality experiences through your design leadership, and have a skillful approach to prioritization. You are driven by action and results, striving to deliver designs efficiently, analyze both quantitative and qualitative data, and iterate rapidly. Furthermore, you take full ownership of your responsibilities, excel in managing and mentoring others, and embody an entrepreneurial spirit that embraces learning from failures.

In this role, you’ll:

• Collaborate and partner: Identify and prioritize opportunities in partnership with Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, and Research leaders. Build alignment and clarity between design and partner teams.
• Combine design vision and execution to achieve results. Apply critical thinking in line with organizational strategy to optimize the funnel while also elevating the quality of end-to-end journeys.
• Mentor and develop: Offer guidance and support to your team members, help them overcome complex challenges, encourage learning and growth opportunities, and assist them in setting achievable career goals.
• Be Customer Driven: Partner deeply with Research and Data to ensure that design decisions are driven by user research and insights, and a rich understanding of behavior.
• Learn and influence: Stay updated on industry and product technologies and trends. Be curious and explore methods, tools, and processes that improve and optimize how we approach PLG.
• Advocate and educate: Connect with cross functional Adobe teams to strengthen the narrative and encourage learning about PLG as a business function and organization. Participate in and encourage thought leadership at Adobe wide and industry wide events.
• Communicate Effectively: Build on how PLG shares its insights with partner teams to increase impact and integration into core product experiences. Clearly communicate design strategy and concepts to senior leadership and partners while advocating for how design decisions contribute to business success.

You’ll Need:

• Proven experience leading and managing design teams at the Director or above level, ideally focusing on growth (PLG) and iterative product design projects where you exponentially increased MAU and revenue.
• Agility to navigate within a highly matrixed organization, working through and across multiple teams, functions, and structures.
• Outstanding collaboration and communication skills, with experience working closely with cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment. Exceptional executive presence to influence others, from senior executives/C-staff to individual Growth practitioners.
• Ability to balance critical thinking at a high-level with providing mentorship to individual team members. Comfortable guiding your team through complex challenges and considering how organizational changes lead to positive business outcomes.
• Extensive knowledge of user-centered design principles, standard methodologies for UX/UI, implementing design research effectively, and the capability to transform business objectives into captivating designs.
• Strong ability to use data and research to inform design decisions and measure success.
• A history of innovative thinking and a passion for pushing design boundaries to achieve business objectives.