Adobe is seeking a Group Manager of UX Research to lead a team of researchers within the Document Cloud portfolio, shaping research direction for key products like Acrobat, PDF Spaces, and AI-powered workflows. This role involves mentoring researchers, driving high-impact research strategy, and partnering closely with Design, Product, and Engineering to ensure user insights guide product decisions in a fast-paced, complex environment.
What You'll Do
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of UX researchers and strategists, encouraging a culture of curiosity, rigor, and continuous learning.
- Attract and hire strong research talent, ensuring a diverse and inclusive team with a high bar for craft.
- Drive research planning and execution across multiple product areas, ensuring high-quality insights that inform product roadmaps, 1.0 AI initiatives, and redesigns.
- Partner deeply with cross-functional teams (Design, Product, Engineering, Data Science) to ensure research is embedded early and often in the product development lifecycle.
- Translate research insights into actionable recommendations, influencing product direction and helping teams navigate ambiguity with clarity and confidence.
- Facilitate alignment across teams by guiding discussions, framing problems, and helping partners converge on user-centered decisions.
- Ensure operational excellence, including planning, prioritization, and delivery across weekly, monthly, and quarterly release cycles.
What We're Looking For
- 8–10+ years of experience in UX research or strategy, including 3–5+ years leading researchers or cross-disciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated ability to lead with empathy, cultivate psychological safety, and empower teams to do impactful work.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex insights and present them clearly to partners at all levels.
- Strong facilitation skills across product-design-engineering teams, especially in early-stage problem framing.
- Deep expertise in strategic research, including problem framing, mixed-methods approaches, and translating insights into product opportunities.
- A customer-centric approach, with a track record of championing user needs and end-to-end experience thinking.
- Experience working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, guiding teams and partners toward clarity and aligned strategy.
Nice to Have
- Experience managing research leads is a plus.
Team & Environment
- UX Research team within Document Cloud portfolio, working alongside Design, Product, Engineering, and Data Science
Benefits & Compensation
- Comprehensive benefits programs
- Empowerment to make an impact in a company culture that values innovation and inclusion
- Opportunities to work on AI-powered tools and creative platforms
- Focus on people, purpose, and community
- Adobe for All initiative promoting diversity and inclusion
- Access to innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity and productivity
- Opportunities to contribute to Adobe's mission of empowering everyone to create
- Accommodations available for applicants with disabilities
- Clear guidance on AI use during hiring process
- U.S. pay range: $146,300 -- $278,750 annually; California: $192,500 - $278,750; Washington: $182,500 - $264,300
- Certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award
- Non-sales roles: base salary with short-term incentives via Annual Incentive Plan (AIP)
Work Mode
- Hybrid role available in California, Washington, and other U.S. geographic markets
- Pay varies by work location; roles may be based in multiple U.S. markets
Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
