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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 Opportunity
The Adobe Litigation team handles worldwide litigations filed by and against the company, and advises the business on litigation risks. We are a close-knit and collaborative team, and are seeking a hardworking, positive, and high-energy litigator to join us. You will manage cases with the assistance of outside counsel, and will have the opportunity to learn about nearly every aspect of our company.
We are looking for a high integrity, expert investigator with HR, compliance, cyber crimes, and/or law enforcement background to join our Litigation, Trade Secret Protection Program, as the Lead Investigator. The goal of the program is to detect, analyze, and mitigate threats to the company’s intellectual property and confidential business information strategically and to help ensure the strength of our corporate integrity through ensuring compliance with our policies & procedures relating to use of Adobe IP. This is a sophisticated role, which involves working closely with in-house counsel, security analysts, outside counsel, and other partners.
In the role of Lead Investigator, you will focus on priority investigations, help drive the strategic oversight, and work with a multi-disciplinary team to remediate threats. You will also design and improve investigation workflows to accommodate the constantly evolving threat landscape. This work requires real-time problem solving, technical curiosity, critical thinking, excellent judgment, the highest ethical standards, and phenomenal communications skills.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as lead investigator for insider threat/IP Protection investigations and remediations
- Document investigation outcomes and deliver updates to a wide range of partners
- Provide guardrails and guidance to the analysts to increase efficiency of insider threat detection and monitoring, and to ensure investigations are conducted in an ethical manner, purpose-designed to protect the privacy of our employees and third parties counterbalanced against the business need to protect our IP
- Continue improving investigation workflows and supporting playbooks
- Build, nurture and maintain positive relationships with other internal teams, including the technical forensic team and Employment Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Security, Employee Resource Center, and Adobe Technology Services
- Refine and report metrics to the leadership
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of investigations work experience in compliance, human resources, insider threat management, incident response, or security operations
- JD preferred- Employment or complex litigation background helpful.
- Experience conducting and leading interviews
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to succeed in an ambiguous, flexible, fast-paced environment with minimal direct supervision
- Ability to synthesize data from multiple streams of information to identify potential threats to sensitive company information
- Familiarity with data analytics tools used for insider threat information collection on computer networks or knowledge of other risk scoring data analytics tools
- The highest level of integrity and honesty and the ability to protect sensitive confidential information
