2025 University Graduate - Associate Legal Counsel

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

Adobe seeks an energetic, motivated, and hardworking junior attorney to join Adobe’s Creative Cloud product legal team. Our creative customers love our products, and they use them to make inspiring photos, art, videos, commercial products, and marketing pieces. 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. This role requires providing timely, accurate, and well-reasoned responses to queries from internal clients to help advance our clients' business objectives while managing legal and brand/reputational risk.

What You’ll Do

• Support and build positive relationships with our product development teams.
• Collaborate with our clients on the review of products, business strategies, and initiatives to assess legal compliance and provide practical advice.
• Assist with product and feature launch processes, including technology release checklists and questionnaires.
• Coordinate with subject matter leads in Adobe’s Legal Department, including privacy, antitrust, and intellectual property attorneys.
• Stay on top of applicable legal and industry developments and provide information and guidance on relevant issues.
• Assist with drafting and negotiating of all types of technology licensing and related documentation.
• Assist with the development and delivery of materials and trainings to various internal groups, including engineering, program management, and sales legal.
  
  

What You Need To Succeed

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and active license to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction.
• 0-3 years of legal experience, with software and online services industry experience and/or a technical background a plus.
• Familiarity with intellectual property agreements including in-bound and out-bound technology licenses and terms of use for online services.
• Familiarity with privacy and data security issues and compliance.
• A with a sense of humor and enjoyment working with a team.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• A commitment to providing clients with high quality and timely legal advice.
• Ability to balance multiple projects at the same time; detail-oriented, efficient, thorough.
• 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.
  
  

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 position is $87,900 -- $196,300 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and 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.

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.

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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