Senior Manager, Cyber Incident Response Team

The Opportunity

As the Sr Manager of the Adobe Incident Response team, you will be at the forefront of Adobe's response against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats. This role is pivotal in ensuring our incident response strategies are effective, robust, and proactive. You will have the opportunity to strengthen our response capabilities, driving continuous improvement, and collaborating across diverse departments to safeguard our platforms and services. This is an opportunity to lead with innovation, develop innovative defense strategies, and have a significant impact on our security posture.

The Challenge

• Strategic Vision: Partner with security leadership to define and drive the strategic vision, define and implement operational plans, and define success metrics.
• Provide Technical Expertise in Investigations : Lead deep-dive technical investigations into cyber threats, ensuring that root cause analysis, forensics, and mitigation strategies are thoroughly completed. Guide your team in employing sophisticated tools and techniques to track and resolve investigations.
• Continuous Improvement : Assess incident handling performance, identify potential gaps in detection and response capabilities, and recommend improvements to strengthen Adobe's security posture.
• Mentor and Develop Response Teams : Provide leadership and mentorship, cultivating an environment of continuous improvement, skill development, and technical excellence.
• Connect with Executive Leadership : Regularly update Adobe's senior leaders on the status of major incidents, including analysis of root causes, business impact, and recovery efforts. Ensure clear, concise communication at all levels during and after incidents.

What is Needed to Succeed

• Strategic Leadership Experience : 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a minimum of 5 years leading incident response efforts for large, complex organizations.
• Proactive Incident Response Approach : Experience developing and refining incident response strategy, focusing on continuous improvement, using automation and threat intelligence to enhance Adobe's defenses.
• Strong Communication Skills : Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical details to technical and non-technical partners, including executive leadership and legal teams.
• Collaborative Approach : Ability to work seamlessly with multi-functional teams, including legal, business continuity, communications, and IT, ensuring cohesive incident handling and coordination.

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 position is $165,200 -- $337,300 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.


In California, the pay range for this position is $232,900 - $337,300In Washington, the pay range for this position is $207,700 - $300,850

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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Massachusetts:

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