Policy and Incident Specialist
Adobe is hiring a Policy and Incident Specialist in San Jose, United States. It pays $82k-$190k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Adobe.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include incident management, fraud prevention and trust and safety.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 273 other open roles at Adobe.
AI in this role
Lead response to trust and safety incidents, develop consumer protection policies, and coordinate cross-functional risk mitigation strategies.
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.
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 position is $81,500 - $189,800 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. 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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Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
Colorado:
Application Window Notice
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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How we rate this
Policy and Incident Specialist at Adobe rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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- Tell me about a project where incident management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where fraud prevention was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where trust and safety was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where policy development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where risk management was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Incident Management, Fraud Prevention, Trust And Safety, Policy Development, and Risk Management. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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