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

Are you passionate about user-centered design? Do you have a knack for understanding users’ key problems? Do you love solving complex problems? Adobe\'s Design Research & Strategy team is seeking a User Experience Researcher to contribute to product design and development teams in understanding user goals, workflows, and contexts. 

What you’ll be working on 

As an experience researcher at Adobe, you will work throughout the product lifecycle and focus on steering the early direction of product through a variety of methods. In this role, you will uncover key user insights and turn those insights into impactful, relevant ideas for the product. The ideal candidate would engage in all areas of the product team to clearly understand and influence the business goals, product architecture and design. 

What you’ll bring to the team 

Must-haves: 

• Clear understanding and experience with research methods. Knowledge about when to apply each. 
• Proven ability to articulate a user identity by developing user profiles, personas and core user scenarios. 
• Able to collaborate with design and product development. 
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate a problem space, sometimes in various ways to meet the needs of different recipients. 

Nice-to-haves: 

• Experience with Adobe’s tools (Creative, Document, and/or Digital Marketing); Experience with web analytics and/or software instrumentation/ data visualization. 
• Experience creating designs, prototypes to facilitate/communicate research findings, writing and evangelizing research. 
• Degree in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, data science, human-computer interaction, or related field. 

How to Apply 

To be considered for this role please submit a resume. If selected for an interview, a summary of past research work will also be required. 

About Adobe Design 

Adobe Design builds tools that amplify the world’s ability to create and communicate. We’re a distributed team of designers, researchers, prototypers, content strategists, program managers, and more who work across Adobe’s three product lines: Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud.