Join Adobe: Associate Senior Legal Counsel, DX AI/ML

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The Opportunity

Adobe seeks an enthusiastic, motivated, high-EQ attorney to join the Adobe Experience Cloud product legal team. This role focuses on providing legal advice and guidance related to artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to Adobe's product and business teams. This full-time position will be based in our San Jose, CA, San Francisco, CA, or New York, NY offices.

What You'll Do

• Support innovative technology and teams regarding AI/ML.
• Build positive relationships and deliver practical legal advice to legal, product, engineering, and business teams on AI/ML, ensuring alignment with company policies and risk mitigation.
• Take ownership of process-related tasks, such as updating forms, drafting templates, and maintaining knowledge resources.
• Provide frontline assistance to product legal and sales legal teams, helping them understand emerging AI/ML issues as applied to Adobe Experience Cloud products, licensing metrics, and AI/ML priorities.
• Stay updated on legal and industry developments related to AI/ML, including emerging regulation, privacy legislation, litigation, and software licensing.

What You Need to Succeed

• J.D. from an accredited law school and membership in good standing in at least one state bar with a minimum of 8+ years of relevant legal experience (e.g., software product development, intellectual property, data protection and privacy), with in-house experience preferred.
• Knowledge of intellectual property issues related to the development and licensing of datasets used to train AI models and the input/output to generative AI products and services.
• Strong interest and/or knowledge of new and emerging artificial intelligence technologies, such as large language models and hybrid AI.
• Intellectual curiosity about emerging regulatory developments affecting AI/ML technologies.
• Flexibility to collaborate with cross-functional teams across different time zones and efficiently handle multiple priorities.
• Highly effective interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, to simplify complex legal issues into plain English.
• Creative problem-solving abilities, sound business instincts, and the capacity to provide both practical and theoretical legal advice on novel issues.
• Proven ability to work independently with minimal direction in a fast-paced environment.
• Initiative in client engagement to add value to client interactions.

Compensation

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets. The pay range for this position is $136,500 -- $261,000 annually, with compensation varying based on location and job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter will share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

For sales roles, starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), with short-term incentives in the form of sales commission plans. For non-sales roles, starting salaries are expressed as base salary, with short-term incentives in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP). Certain roles may also be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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