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About the Role
Adobe's Legal & Government Relations (LGR) group is seeking a strategic and innovative Senior Manager, Legal Operations. This role oversees outside counsel and vendor management, legal spend and financial operations, operational intelligence, and core business operations, driving operational excellence, financial stewardship, and insight-based decision making. The ideal candidate is a proven people leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, balances competing priorities, challenges conventional thinking, and brings an AI-first mentality to modernizing the legal function.
Responsibilities
- Manage Adobe's external counsel and legal vendor programs, including governance, performance oversight, billing adherence, fee structures, and cost efficiency.
- Own LGR financial operations, including budgeting, forecasting, accruals, spend reporting, and financial controls.
- Partner with Finance and Procurement to improve cost efficiency, prioritization, and financial planning.
- Build operational metrics, dashboards, reporting, and executive insights to promote data-driven decision making.
- Provide operational and financial insights that support long-term planning and leadership decision making.
- Find opportunities to improve efficiency, decision making, and business outcomes through innovative operational practices and new technologies.
- Partner with Solutions Consulting to support transformation initiatives by providing operational context, data, governance, and value measurement.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team.
- Establish clear priorities, goals, and operating rhythms that drive accountability, execution, and continuous improvement.
- Build organizational capability and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and high performance.
Requirements
- Significant experience in Legal Operations, Business Operations, Finance, Consulting, or a related field.
- Proven experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
- Deep expertise managing outside counsel programs, legal spend, vendor relationships, budgeting, and forecasting.
- Strong business and financial competence with the ability to translate data into actionable executive insights.
- Proven ability to lead multiple complex initiatives simultaneously in a dynamic environment.
- Outstanding communication, collaborative and positive attitude, and influencing skills.
- Track record of driving innovation, challenging the status quo, and delivering measurable business impact.
- Passion for AI, technology, and modernizing how organizations operate.
Skills
- AI
- Financial Operations
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Reporting
- Data Analysis
- Vendor Management
- Outside Counsel Management
- Team Leadership
- Innovation
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
Salary/Compensations
- $116,800 - $232,800 annually
- $160,800 - $232,800 (California)
- $160,800 - $232,800 (New York)
- $138,200 - $200,150 (Washington)
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits programs
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com.
- Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
- 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.