Policy and Incident Specialist

Adobe; California (PA); On-site; USD 82,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a senior incident response leader to manage significant consumer trust incidents, coordinating across Fraud Prevention, Product, Engineering, Customer Support, Legal, Security, and GTM to drive timely resolution.

You will establish ownership, escalation paths, and clear communications, translate incident insights into scalable policies, and develop playbooks and governance for fraud, abuse, and customer protection.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in tech or economics.
• 5+ years of experience in fraud prevention, trust & safety, risk management, or related field.
• Proven ability to coordinate complex cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.
• Strong judgment and ability to make decisions in ambiguity.
• Experience translating incidents into scalable policies and playbooks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead response to consumer trust incidents across Adobe teams.
• Establish ownership, escalation paths, and action tracking during fast-moving incidents.
• Coordinate with Fraud Prevention, Product, Engineering, Legal, and more.
• Lead post-incident reviews to identify root causes and gaps.
• Translate insights into clear consumer trust policies and decision frameworks.
• Develop policies, playbooks, and escalation criteria.
• Partner with Product to translate policy into processes and customer experiences.
• Identify recurring risks and drive improvements.
• Develop metrics and reporting on incidents and remediation progress.

Skills

Decision making

Crisis management

Cross-functional

Policy development

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree (Tech or Economics)

Job description

What You’ll Do

• Lead the response to significant consumer trust incidents involving fraud, abuse, scams, account compromise, and other emerging threats, coordinating teams across Adobe to assess impact, establish priorities, and drive resolution.
• Provide structure and leadership during fast-moving incidents by establishing clear ownership, escalation paths, action tracking, decision-making, and stakeholder communications.
• Partner across Fraud Prevention, Product, Engineering, Customer Support, Legal, Security, GTM, and other teams to coordinate response and drive cross-functional action.
• Lead post-incident reviews to identify root causes, control and policy gaps, and opportunities to prevent recurrence.
• Translate insights from incidents, investigations, customer experiences, and emerging threats into clear and scalable consumer trust policies and decision frameworks.
• Develop and maintain policies, playbooks, escalation criteria, and operational guidance covering fraud, abuse, scams, customer harm, remediation, and enforcement.
• Partner with Product and operational teams to translate policy into effective processes, controls, product requirements, training, and customer experiences.
• Identify recurring and systemic risks and drive improvements that strengthen consumer protection and Adobe’s ability to respond to future incidents.
• Develop metrics and reporting that provide visibility into incidents, emerging risks, policy effectiveness, and remediation progress.

What You Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree - Tech, economics
• 5 years+ experience
• Strong judgment and demonstrated ability to make effective decisions in complex, ambiguous, and rapidly evolving situations.
• Experience in fraud prevention, trust & safety, risk management, incident management, policy, customer protection, security, or a related field.
• Proven ability to coordinate complex cross-functional initiatives and drive outcomes across teams without direct authority.
• Experience developing policies, decision frameworks, playbooks, governance models, or scalable operational processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to move from individual incidents to broader trends, root causes, and systemic risks.
• Ability to balance fraud and consumer protection with customer experience, business impact, operational feasibility, and risk.
• Strong program management skills with a structured and methodical approach to execution, accountability, and follow-through.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex or sensitive issues clearly to senior stakeholders.

About Adobe

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. The next big idea could be yours.

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Expected Pay Range:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $81,500 - $189,800 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. In California, the pay range for this position is $131,100 - $189,800 In New York, the pay range for this position is $131,100 - $189,800

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.

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California:

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Colorado:

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There is no deadline to apply to this job posting because Adobe accepts applications for this role on an ongoing basis. The posting will remain open based on hiring needs and position availability.

Massachusetts:

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