Associate Legal Counsel - Acrobat

The Opportunity

Join the group of attorneys and paralegals who provide legal counsel to the product teams at Adobe who develop and market Adobe Acrobat. We are seeking a hardworking, positive and high‑energy lawyer to support product and business teams for Adobe Acrobat. You will work closely with product management, engineering, business strategy and marketing teams, as well as colleagues in Legal, to provide counseling on a range of legal topics including innovative generative AI technologies.

You will be based in San Jose or San Francisco, CA, or Seattle, WA, will report to the lead of the Acrobat legal team, and will help advance our clients' business objectives while managing legal and brand/reputational risk.

• Assist the team with innovative Generative AI functions, evaluating products from a GenAI lens, considering associated risks, reviewing synthetic and other data sets, and generally being mentored by senior lawyers who do this daily.
• Support and build positive relationships with our product development teams.
• Collaborate with our clients in reviewing products, business strategies and initiatives to assess legal compliance and provide practical advice.
• Coordinate with subject matter leads in Adobe’s Legal Department, including privacy, antitrust and intellectual property attorneys.
• Develop and deliver materials and trainings to various internal groups, including engineering, program management and sales‑legal.
• Draft and negotiate all types of technology licensing agreements: both inbound and outbound licenses and partnership agreements.

• J.D. from an accredited law school and necessary bar membership.
• 1‑2 years of relevant legal experience, with software and online services industry experience.
• Proficient at negotiating and drafting various intellectual property agreements including in‑and outbound technology licenses, development agreements, online services agreements, and terms of use for online services.
• Familiarity with privacy and data security issues and compliance (experience with privacy by design is strongly preferred).
• Prior experience with user‑generated content services and mobile app development strongly preferred.
• Technical background or a geek‑level interest in software products and development preferred.
• A flexible, business‑friendly collaborator who thinks creatively and enjoys working with technical issues.
• Candidate must possess a sense of humor and enjoy working on a team and with people at all levels.
• Smart, creative, hard worker with boundless intellectual curiosity.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A commitment to providing clients with high quality, timely legal advice, eager to tackle different types of products and services and related adventures.
• Flexibility to work with colleagues, clients and others in time zones other than where the position is based.
• Ability to exercise common sense to provide both practical and theoretical advice; must be a creative problem‑solver and have good business instincts.
• Desire to make an impact and build an exciting career with our team.

Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

The U.S. pay range for this position is $107,500 – $196,300 annually, with California and Washington ranges indicated separately. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

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Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Application Window Notice:
If this role is open to hiring in Colorado, the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

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Adobe is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.