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Group Design Manager, GenStudio

Marketo, an Adobe Company
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/12/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/10/2025

Our Company

The following information provides an overview of the skills, qualities, and qualifications needed for this role.

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

The GenStudio design team seeks a Group Design Manager to help us harness the power of creation, marketing, and analytics tools through developing new Gen AI powered marketing workflows. As an integral member of this team, you will push the boundaries of what’s possible today while keeping a keen focus on enterprise customers, our strategic business priorities, and the changing landscape of Gen AI driven marketing.

In this role, you will :

In this highly collaborative role, you’ll drive the Activation team for GenStudio for Performance Marketing. The activations team covers create, content & activations that power the creative and generative workflows in GenStudio. You will be an integral part of setting up the foundation of the create to activation workflows. This would enable GenStudio to realize the vision of delivering on-brand and performant creation.

On a fast-moving team, you’ll manage, lead & drive the team forward through strategy, rapid explorations, feedback, and iterations focused on product goals. Your strong visual & verbal communication skills and capacity to remain user and outcome focused are paramount in helping you influence and persuade.

  • Manage a team of designers & design managers to establish the future vision for campaigns, content, insights & activation to drive customer value.
  • Drive design excellence and contribute to setting the standard for design at our company.
  • Collaborate with designers, content strategists, and researchers including developing standard processes for building and using componentized patterns across the different areas and products supporting the Activation journeys.
  • Support the design teams and dev / engineering teams, across multiple GenStudio workstreams.
  • Work closely with product managers to ensure what we're building is usable.
  • Help development teams engineer components by ensuring they are engineered according to design and interaction specifications.
  • Work with designers to maintain the system as well as create and update documentation.
  • Help establish design standards and principles for scalability, efficiency, and consistency.
  • Evaluate and improve usability and accessibility of components and be a champion for the user.
  • Improve the design to development handoff process.
  • Supervise customer & UX research that is relevant to the team.
  • Participate in customer calls as well as external conferences.
  • Help with hiring and setting up the right design team structure and culture.

What you will need to succeed

Must haves :

  • 8 years’ overall experience in product or UX design.
  • 5 years’ experience leading design teams.
  • Considerable experience in building and orchestrating a cross-product strategy and vision.
  • Grow and establish a user-centric design practice where designers develop and represent confident POVs; focusing on long-term vision and near-term goals.
  • Partner with product and engineering to envision the possibilities and opportunities for future technology.
  • Build an impactful collaborative environment and encourage deep partnerships with cross-functional teams, setting a high bar for design craft, conceiving, defining, and driving design strategy.
  • Work across a complex product space, serving as a champion for cohesive workflows and empowering your team to drive alignment among collaborators.
  • Jump in on key workstreams, being responsible for the strategy and execution for high-impact projects.
  • Drive a team-wide design process, collaborating closely with program management.
  • Represent the team and the team’s work to executives.
  • Coach and mentor designers, attract design talent to the team, and hire, grow, retain, and promote designers.
  • Nice-to-haves :

  • Hands on skills and experience building & designing in Figma.
  • Experience collaborating on a multi-product design team.
  • Prior experience crafting design strategy for GenAI, platform experiences, and / or systems.
  • Deep knowledge around and passion for accessible and inclusive design.
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