Compliance Risk & Assurance

Adobe • San Jose, CA

3d

About The Position

Adobe’s Business Ethics & Integrity organization is seeking a Compliance Risk & Assurance professional to advance its data-driven, risk-based compliance program across global operations. The role connects compliance risk assessments, monitoring, targeted reviews, and analytics to identify significant risks, evaluate whether processes and controls are effective, and focus resources on improvement. The position works across Business Ethics & Integrity and in partnership with Legal, Internal Audit, and other teams to build scalable assurance and monitoring capabilities. It also supports M&A compliance due diligence and explores data, analytics, automation, and emerging technologies, including AI, to strengthen risk identification, efficiency, and actionable insights.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in corporate ethics and compliance, compliance risk management, or compliance monitoring and assurance; experience in internal audit or risk advisory may be relevant when accompanied by substantive corporate ethics and compliance experience.
• Strong understanding of corporate ethics and compliance programs, key compliance risk areas, regulatory expectations, risk assessment methodologies, compliance monitoring, and approaches to evaluating program effectiveness.
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, or executing compliance risk assessments, risk-based compliance monitoring, targeted compliance reviews, or compliance assurance activities.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to use compliance and business data to identify emerging risks, evaluate trends and anomalies, assess program effectiveness, and inform risk-based decisions.
• Experience developing or leveraging metrics, dashboards, key risk indicators, and management reporting to support risk-based decision-making.
• Knowledge of core corporate compliance risk areas, including anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, gifts and hospitality, and third-party risk.
• Strong critical thinking, professional skepticism, and sound judgment, with the ability to connect data, compliance observations, and business context to broader compliance risks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including translating complex findings into clear, practical recommendations for senior leaders.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to work across Legal, Internal Audit, Finance, Security, technical teams, and business functions.
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and help build capabilities in an evolving environment.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with data analytics and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or similar technologies.
• Experience applying automation or AI-enabled capabilities to compliance monitoring and assurance.
• Experience with M&A compliance due diligence, integration, or risk assessment.
• Experience in a global company or similarly complex environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute compliance risk assessments across Adobe’s businesses, geographies, and operations to identify, evaluate, and prioritize ethics and compliance risks.
• Design and implement risk-based compliance monitoring and assurance activities to evaluate processes and controls, identify gaps, and drive remediation and continuous improvement.
• Build and enhance continuous monitoring capabilities using compliance and business data to identify emerging risks, trends, anomalies, and potential control weaknesses.
• Develop risk indicators, dashboards, metrics, and reporting that provide leadership with actionable insights into compliance risks, program effectiveness, and improvement opportunities.
• Partner with Legal, Internal Audit, and business stakeholders to evaluate findings, identify root causes, develop remediation plans, and strengthen compliance processes and controls.
• Support M&A compliance risk assessments and due diligence, including identifying potential ethics and compliance risks and supporting post-close integration and remediation.
• Use analytics, automation, AI, and emerging technologies to improve the efficiency, scalability, and effectiveness of compliance risk assessment, monitoring, and assurance.
• Support broader Ethics & Compliance Office initiatives, including enhancements to policies, processes, governance, and other program activities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior