The Opportunity

Adobe is seeking a Risk Manager to join our outstanding team in San Jose, CA. This is an outstanding chance to lead a world-class risk management program and drive its evolution to new heights. You'll report directly to senior leadership and play a meaningful role in crafting the future of our risk strategy.

Program oversight and execution

• Provide oversight of the risk management lifecycle — ensuring partners are in compliance and managing onboarding, due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and offboarding.
• Conduct ongoing monitoring to detect, investigate, and resolve any issues involving partners, ensuring corrective actions are taken.
• Lead the program's systems and screening processes, setting functional requirements, and prioritizing the roadmap.
• Engage directly with diligence reviews, risk ratings, and critical issues, using good judgment in higher-risk situations.

Maturity, reporting, and risk surfacing

• Own and manage metrics and reporting, offering leadership clear insights into partner risk and control efficiency.
• Advance program maturity with a risk-based approach, streamlining and automating workflows.
• Set clear compliance expectations for partners, maintain policies, and drive accountability.

People and collaborators

• Manage and develop a small team, setting expectations, allocating work, and mentoring for overall success.
• Build positive relationships across various departments, clearly communicating risks and recommendations.

What you'll bring

Required

• Several years of experience in risk management, compliance, audit, or a related field.
• Proven track record of building and managing recurring controls and monitoring routines.
• Experience in people management, with the ability to work hands-on while setting direction.
• A risk-based approach and process efficiency, with good judgment balancing compliance and business needs.
• Strong communication and collaborator management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in a global software, SaaS, or technology company.
• Familiarity with due diligence screening tools or compliance benchmark reporting.
• Experience in operationalizing audit remediation.

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

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Expected Pay Range:

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.

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