Our Company 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 Position Against this backdrop, Adobe is seeking a Chief Privacy Officer to lead and provide vision for all aspects of its global privacy strategy and approach to business execution. Overseeing the company’s global privacy program, the Chief Privacy Officer will work with a broad audience to include senior executives, technologists and business leaders. This leader will manage a complex set of global privacy requirements and expectations. This person will lead a team dedicated to supporting Adobe’s rapidly changing business needs, ensuring compliance with evolving privacy, security and consumer protection laws and industry standards, and appropriately managing legal and brand risk for the company. Reporting to Adobe’s General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer, Dana Rao, the Chief Privacy Officer will be a lawyer with strategic and operational privacy expertise. The successful candidate will be able to identify gaps in legacy programs and build new processes to enhance and advance the function. The Chief Privacy Officer will be able to “speak the language” to inform and influence product and engineering teams. They will establish themselves as a proactive privacy leader with a vision, impacting global industry standard methodologies and rules and regulations with key external partners. Key Responsibilities Specific responsibilities of the Chief Privacy Officer will include: Building trust in Adobe by overseeing the company’s global privacy strategy and policies. Leading and developing best-in-class programs, trainings and processes to address privacy issues relating to legacy and new technologies and services and ensuring operational compliance with global privacy and data security laws and regulations. Continuously developing and improving all aspects of Adobe's privacy compliance program. Serving as a privacy evangelist inside Adobe to advance a culture of privacy. Driving impactful business solutions. Influencing the development of privacy and data protection-centric features of Adobe’s technologies and services. Developing and scaling Privacy-By-Design strategies. Overseeing Adobe’s Privacy Center. Further developing integrated strategies across Adobe to optimize new data use and innovations for customer benefit. Creating and implementing customer-focused strategies, products and experiences to enable effective and responsible data use. Engaging with Adobe engineers and law enforcement agencies for hosted service offerings. Guiding Product, Engineering, Data Science and Innovation teams on proposed or potential data use/product features. Clearly communicating with non-experts to help them understand applicable regulations, requirements and standard methodologies. Influencing and partnering with cross-functional teams to provide transparency and control over personal information of customers and consumers. Leading privacy due diligence on inorganic growth opportunities. Representing Adobe externally before data protection regulators, industry groups and other key partners to drive balanced, scalable and global approaches to complex data privacy protection and needs. Overseeing communication and engagement with all external audiences regarding privacy. Partnering with industry leaders to drive customer-focused programs and policies. Participating in industry forums to help craft relevant privacy, data and digital advertising policies, regulations and standard methodologies. Leading a team to provide privacy counseling and support services to Adobe’s business units and corporate functions. Developing and mentoring talent to be passionate about global privacy and data protection issues. Candidate Profile The ideal candidate will have/be: At least 12 years of relevant privacy experience, including time in-house. Ideally, over five years of experience in SaaS/internet/consumer spaces and some grounding at a top-tier law firm. Deep technical competence with the ability to understand and analyze the breadth of Adobe’s products and offerings, including privacy and data security-related features and functionalities. Experience with product counseling preferred. Global privacy expertise with specific knowledge of privacy regulations and industry standards in all major markets/jurisdictions. Superior relationship management skills with the ability to develop partnerships and relationships throughout the organization as well as with key external collaborators. A proven track record of building and maintaining relationships with other functional leaders and the business. Strong communication (oral and written) skills with the ability to influence and persuade, effectively interfacing at all levels of an organization. A strategic problem-solver with excellent legal and business judgement. Impeccable integrity and ethical behavior with a strong moral compass and a commitment to transparency. A creative, innovative and commercial leader with a positive attitude. Substantial experience working collaboratively and effectively with cross-functional teams. An inspirational manager and motivator capable of attracting, developing and advancing great talent and leading a distributed team, drawing on strengths to achieve common goals. A JD from a leading law school/university. A champion of Adobe’s core values: genuine, innovative, involved and exceptional. Working at Adobe Adobe’s exceptional work environment is recognized around the world. Adobe’s employees are committed to helping each other grow through an unique Check-In approach in which ongoing feedback flows freely. Discover what Adobe’s employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the meaningful benefits the company offers. Adobe is an equal opportunity employer. Adobe hires hard-working individuals, regardless of gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Adobe knows that when its employees feel appreciated and included, they can be more creative, innovative and successful. This is what it means to be Adobe For All. Learn more about Adobe’s vision here. Adobe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.