Compliance Risk & Assurance

Adobe • San Jose, CA

5d • $100,600 - $202,950

About The Position

Adobe’s Business Ethics & Integrity organization is evolving its data-driven, risk-based approach to compliance by proactively identifying emerging risks, evaluating control effectiveness, and using data and technology to drive insight and improvement. The Compliance Risk & Assurance professional will help mature these capabilities across Adobe’s global Business Ethics & Integrity program by connecting risk assessments, monitoring, targeted reviews, and analytics to identify significant risks, evaluate whether controls mitigate them, and prioritize resources.

The role works across Business Ethics & Integrity and partners closely with Legal, Internal Audit, and other teams to develop scalable, risk-based 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, improve efficiency, and generate actionable insights. The position contributes to broader Ethics & Compliance Office initiatives, including policy, process, and governance enhancements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 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 and 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, including the ability to connect data, compliance observations, and business context to broader compliance risks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex findings into clear, practical recommendations for senior leaders.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across Legal, Internal Audit, Finance, Security, technical teams, and business functions.
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and help build new 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 to identify, evaluate, and prioritize ethics and compliance risks across Adobe’s businesses, geographies, and operations.
• Design and implement risk-based compliance monitoring and assurance activities to evaluate compliance 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.
• Leverage analytics, automation, AI, and emerging technologies to improve the efficiency, scalability, and effectiveness of compliance risk assessment, monitoring, and assurance activities.
• Support broader Ethics & Compliance Office initiatives, including enhancements to compliance policies, processes, governance, and other program activities.

What This Job Offers

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