Senior Product Manager, Privacy Engineering

Adobe; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Privacy Engineering in California to guide strategy and execution of privacy features. You will translate needs from customers, business, and legal into actionable requirements for engineering teams, focusing on data protection, transparency, and compliant experiences across Adobe products.

This highly cross-functional role requires strategic influence, urgency, and ownership as you partner with Legal, Platform Engineering, and Experience teams to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant product management experience in either commercial or well-defined internal-facing products.
• Understanding of technical environments, market dynamics and trends.
• Solid understanding and hands-on experience with AI technologies, models, tools, and applied agentic use cases.
• Solid understanding of data platforms and privacy frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Understand needs around data protection and privacy compliance in our products, services and platforms.
• Translate customer, business, and legal needs into clear requirements and engage with engineering teams to deliver solutions.
• Build features and tools to keep data protected while offering transparency on data processing.
• Collaborate with experience design teams to ensure privacy controls are implemented per policies.
• Prepare and deliver presentations for Directors, VPs and Senior Leaders on privacy capabilities and risks.

Skills

PM experience

AI technologies

Data privacy

Data platforms

Education

Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a quantitative field or computer science

Tools

Certified Information Privacy Technology

Job description

Senior Product Manager, Privacy Engineering

Privacy is changing quickly. People are more aware of their privacy rights and want more control over their data, especially as AI has become part of our everyday work. Regulations are also evolving rapidly across many regions. These changes matter to Adobe as the company expands across consumer, professional, and enterprise markets worldwide. We are looking for a collaborative and innovative Lead Product Manager to guide the strategy and execution of our vision for experiential privacy. In this role, you will help manage privacy risks, identify new opportunities, and build transparent, user‑centered solutions that support Adobe’s values and business goals. This is a highly cross‑functional role. You will need to think strategically, influence others, and work closely with teams across Adobe, including Creativity & Productivity, Customer Experience Orchestration, Adobe Unified Platform Engineering, Digital Employee Experience, and Legal. To succeed, you are comfortable with change, act with urgency, take ownership, and deliver results while partnering with multiple teams and managing competing priorities.

What You’ll Do

• Understand needs around data protection and privacy compliance in our products, services and platforms.
• Translate customer, business, and legal needs into clear requirements and engage with engineering teams to deliver outstanding solutions users trust with their data.
• Help build features, capabilities, and tools composed to keep user and company data protected while offering transparency around how our company processes data.
• Collaborate with experience design teams driving the creation of mockups and review user interface designs to help ensure all privacy controls are implemented in accordance with privacy policies and requirements.
• Build, document and communicate key use cases as the basis for comprehensive, end‑to‑end features and user acceptance testing for privacy requirements and solutions.
• Build privacy success metrics/criteria and supervise performance.
• Partner with legal to assist in the review of privacy impact assessments for different platforms, products, tools, and services.
• Prepare and deliver presentations for higher-level management including Directors, VPs and Senior Leaders with progress, risks and opportunities for privacy‑focused capabilities and processes.
• Act as an advocate and evangelist for privacy and data protection, leading internal training and building awareness.

What is Needed to Succeed

• 5+ years of relevant product management experience in either commercial or well‑defined internal‑facing products.
• Understanding of technical environments, market dynamics and trends.
• Solid understanding and hands‑on experience with AI technologies, models, tools, and applied agentic use cases.
• Solid understanding of data platforms (e.g., data lakes and data farms), privacy enhancement technologies, and various industry frameworks geared around data privacy (e.g., IAB TCF, Global Privacy Platform, etc.).
• Strong product management thinking with a dedication to nail the “What and Why” before jumping into solutioning.
• Proven track record in highly cross‑functional projects, working with product and technical teams with multiple priorities.
• Business‑savvy teammate who can think out of the box, with a keen ability for switching between tactical execution to critical thinking! Persistent appetite to learn quickly with a highly curious, problem‑solving focused mind.
• Exceptional communication skills with a phenomenal sense of humor and dedication to integrity.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a quantitative field, electrical engineering, computer science or equivalent Certified Information Privacy Technology credential is a plus.

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. Let’s Adobe together At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.

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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 $125,800 -- $239,725 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 $165,600 - $239,725 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.

State‑Specific Notices

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

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Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more. Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email [e-mail].