Adobe
Adobe
Adobe is a software company whose products support creative work, digital marketing, document management, and customer experience operations. Its Creative Cloud includes widely used applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro, while Adobe Experience Cloud brings together marketing automation, analytics, and content management tools for businesses. Adobe also develops solutions for digital asset management, generative AI, PDF workflows, and electronic signatures through products including Acrobat and Acrobat Sign. Its platforms serve organizations across sectors such as financial services, retail, and media and entertainment, as well as individual creative professionals.

Director, Privacy Counsel at Adobe - San Francisco Onsite

Lead Adobe’s privacy legal support for digital experience products and enterprise data platforms. Advise on product privacy, AI governance, AdTech and MarTech, and enterprise negotiations.

Description

  • Lead Adobe’s CXO Privacy Legal team
  • Manage, mentor, and develop privacy counsel supporting the CXO business
  • Prioritize and balance legal coverage across product, sales, and partnership needs
  • Own the team’s operating model, playbooks, privacy impact assessments, and knowledge repositories
  • Provide privacy guidance to Sales Legal, Product Legal, and Partnerships Legal within CXO
  • Advise product and technical teams on Privacy by Design for digital marketing solutions and systems
  • Counsel product and engineering teams on privacy matters involving data platforms, customer data platforms, identity resolution, data collaboration, journey orchestration, and AI-enabled marketing features
  • Create, apply, and assess privacy impact assessments for Adobe products and technologies, including new AI initiatives
  • Lead efforts to streamline and enhance the privacy assessment process
  • Develop and expand product privacy playbooks and templates
  • Monitor and implement changes in privacy law, data-broker regulation, AdTech and MarTech enforcement, and AI governance
  • Support privacy negotiations with customers, partners, and vendors
  • Deliver training and create templates and playbooks for enterprise transactions
  • Participate in strategic enterprise deals and customer discussions
  • Advise on privacy and data-protection provisions in enterprise sales negotiations
  • Guide business leaders on using privacy as a competitive differentiator
  • Strengthen Adobe’s internal privacy culture through training and participation in product strategy
  • Advise on AdTech and MarTech privacy and regulatory matters, including data sourcing, enrichment, consent, preference management, and TCPA compliance
  • Structure data integrations and partnerships to address regulatory-classification risk

Requirements

  • J.D. degree
  • Admission to at least one state bar
  • At least 10 years of relevant privacy legal experience
  • Significant in-house experience with a technology, SaaS, or data-driven company
  • Proven people-management experience, preferably managing attorneys
  • Deep experience advising product and development teams on data platforms, identity resolution, and/or customer data platforms
  • Experience addressing privacy issues related to generative AI and AI-enabled products
  • Experience with data-broker regulations
  • Experience negotiating privacy and data-security provisions in B2B and enterprise agreements
  • Practical, commercially sound judgment
  • Ability to work independently on complex matters and escalate issues appropriately
  • Strong executive communication skills
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills
  • Commitment to integrity

Benefits

  • Annual Incentive Plan (AIP)
  • Potential new-hire equity award
  • Comprehensive benefits programs
  • Reasonable accommodations throughout the application process
  • Equal Employment Opportunity protections

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