The Opportunity

Adobe's Privacy Office is hiring an experienced privacy attorney as Director, Associate General Counsel to lead privacy legal support for Adobe's Customer & Experience Organization (CXO) - the business behind Adobe's Digital Experience products and enterprise data platforms. This is your chance to work for a global brand with an unparalleled culture where privacy really matters!

You will lead a group of privacy lawyers and provide main privacy legal guidance to Sales Legal, Product Legal, and Partnerships Legal within CXO. Responsibilities involve offering product privacy counsel, assisting with enterprise deals, and tackling AdTech/MarTech and data platform issues critical to enterprise digital experiences. This position requires both managing the team and actively handling challenging product and commercial privacy concerns.

What you'll Do

Lead the CXO Privacy Legal team

• Coordinate, mentor, and develop a team of privacy counsel supporting the CXO business.

• Set priorities and balance coverage across product, sales, and partnerships demand.

• Take responsibility for the team's operating model, playbooks, PIAs, and knowledge repositories.

Advise product and technical teams

• Engage with Product Legal, Engineering, Product, Security, and Marketing teams to promote the development and adoption of Privacy-By-Design frameworks for digital marketing solutions and systems to address privacy and security risks while enabling product innovation.

• Counsel product and engineering teams regarding Privacy-By-Design for data platforms, customer data platforms (CDPs), identity resolution, data collaboration, journey orchestration, and AI-enabled marketing features.

• Develop, apply, and evaluate privacy impact assessments for Adobe products and technologies, including new AI initiatives. Lead projects to simplify and improve the privacy assessment process.

• Build and scale product privacy playbooks and templates so mentorship reaches teams without one-off review.

• Track and implement developments in privacy law, data-broker regulation, AdTech/MarTech enforcement, and AI governance.

Support enterprise deals

• Support Sales Legal and other legal teams in handling privacy-related negotiations involving customers, partners, and vendors. Deliver regular training, develop templates and playbooks, and give hands-on assistance for strategic deals. Identify and promote improvements to make privacy negotiations more efficient.

• Be a privacy ambassador on enterprise customer calls and in meetings with external collaborators.

• Serve as counsel for privacy and data-protection terms in enterprise sales negotiations, providing heightened support during quarter-end and year-end close cycles.
• Manage advertising and marketing technology along with data-platform privacy
• Act as a strategic advisor to business leaders to help make privacy a competitive differentiator for Adobe.

• Serve as a privacy advocate inside Adobe to help grow our culture of privacy (e.g., conduct trainings, represent the Privacy Office in product strategy and development sessions).

• Advise on privacy and regulatory issues specific to AdTech/MarTech technology. This includes data sourcing and enrichment, data-broker regulation, consent and preference management, and messaging/communications compliance (e.g., TCPA).

• Structure data integrations and partnerships to manage regulatory-classification risk.

What you need to succeed

• J.D. degree and membership in at least one state bar.

• Minimum 10+ years of relevant privacy legal experience, including substantial in-house experience at a technology, SaaS, or data-driven company, and demonstrated people-management experience; management of attorneys strongly preferred.

• Deep experience advising product and development groups on data platforms, identity resolution, and/or CDP, on the privacy issues raised by generative AI and AI-enabled products, and data-broker regulations.

• Experience negotiating privacy and data-security terms in B2B/enterprise agreements.

• Sound, business-pragmatic judgment; able to operate independently on complex matters while raising issues appropriately; strong executive communication skills.

• Outstanding interpersonal skills with a dedication to integrity.

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.

Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

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 $208,500 - $372,400 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.

In California, the pay range for this position is $257,200 - $372,400
In New York, the pay range for this position is $257,200 - $372,400


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:

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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:

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