Design Manager Jobs in Utah

INTRODUCTION

The Workfront design team is looking for a Group Design Manager to lead the evolution of the Workfront platform experience. This role shapes how enterprise teams plan, manage, and collaborate on complex marketing work at scale.

This is a senior leadership position for an experienced design manager with strong product sense, a deep understanding of enterprise platforms, and the ability to lead through influence in highly cross‑functional environments.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

In this highly collaborative role, you’ll drive the AI strategy and overall platform experience for Workfront. You’ll shape how intelligent capabilities show up across the platform, strengthening Workfront as the gold‑standard system of record for enterprises and their agencies. You’ll also help define our agentic direction and craft experiences that empower the next generation of marketers and marketing operations teams!

• Set the experience vision for key areas of the Workfront platform, with a focus on clarity, scale, and real enterprise workflows
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to shape direction, influence priorities, and connect design decisions to outcomes
• Lead, coach, and grow a team of designers and design managers, building strong judgment, clear points of view, and a culture of feedback
• Maintain a high bar for design quality across usability, accessibility, consistency, and trust
• Drive alignment across teams by facilitating collaboration and navigating trade‑offs in a highly matrixed environment
• Guide teams through ambiguity and change while keeping users and outcomes front and center
• Represent design with clarity and confidence to executives, customers, and partners
• Help evolve the design practice through standards, hiring, team structure, and ways of working

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of experience in product, UX, or platform design
• 5+ years leading design teams and/or design managers
• Strong product sense and experience shaping long‑term experience strategy
• A track record of influencing priorities and direction through design leadership
• Experience setting design standards and mentoring designers toward scalable, accessible experiences
• Deep partnership experience with Product and Engineering
• Comfort operating in complex systems and representing design at senior levels
• A passion for coaching, growing teams, and building strong design culture

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Accessibility Design Skills:

• 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.

ABOUT ADOBE DESIGN

Adobe Design creates tools that amplify the world’s ability to create and communicate. We’re a global 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.

ABOUT ADOBE

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

COMPENSATION

• Expected Pay Range: Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $155,100 -- $293,800 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

STATE-SPECIFIC NOTICES

California:

Fair Chance Ordinances

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:

Application Window Notice

If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:

Massachusetts Legal Notice

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:

Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

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