Director, Head of Legal, Western Europe & Latin America
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What you'll do
- Lead, develop, and inspire a team of 7 lawyers and legal professionals across Paris and São Paulo, fostering an inclusive, high-trust environment.
- Own the team’s talent strategy, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development in line with Adobe’s Check-In framework.
- Support and develop junior managers, promoting strong people-leadership practices and inclusivity.
- Define and implement the legal strategy for Southwest Europe (France, Italy and Spain) and Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina as main markets).
- Identify and manage legal risk across commercial, regulatory, data privacy, IP, and AI-related matters, translating risk into clear business guidance.
- Advise senior leaders and contribute to industry guidelines and policy discussions.
- Act as a trusted legal partner to top-level executives, providing proactive, strategic counsel.
- Oversee complex commercial agreements, including licensing, services, partnerships, and AI-related arrangements.
- Support sales, marketing, finance, and product teams through practical legal guidance and targeted training.
- Manage external counsel relationships and the regional legal budget.
- Improve legal operations through process optimization, legal technology, AI innovation and workflows, and effective knowledge management.
- Ensure high standards of governance, documentation, and integrity in line with Adobe’s Code of Business Conduct.
What they're looking for
- Law degree (or equivalent) and active admission to the Bar
- 12+ years of post-qualification legal experience, with significant in-house experience at a multinational technology, software or IP-intensive company.
- > 6 years of people management experience, including direct management of lawyers at varying levels of seniority.
- Proven track record of managing geographically dispersed, multicultural teams — experience managing across EMEA and LATAM strongly preferred.
- Expert knowledge of commercial/IT/IP law and strong working knowledge of GDPR, AI regulation, and competition law in the French, Spanish and/or Italian context.
- Experience overseeing external counsel partnerships and managing legal budgets at a regional level.
- French: Native or bilingual proficiency
- English: Full professional proficiency
Nice to have
- Spanish, Portuguese, Italian: An advantage
- Experience managing across EMEA and LATAM strongly preferred.
Summarised by NextRaise from the employer’s description, which follows in full below.
Full description from employer
Paris, France | Hybrid (3 days onsite)
At Adobe, everything we do is driven by creativity, innovation, and the belief that great ideas come from everywhere. Our products help millions of people bring ideas to life, and our Legal team plays a meaningful role in supporting this mission.
We are looking for an experienced legal leader to join Adobe as Director, Associate General Counsel, Head of Legal – Western, leading legal strategy across Southwest Europe and Latin America.
The Opportunity
You will lead a diverse and geographically distributed legal team and work closely with senior business leaders across the region (spanning from France to Italy, Spain, Portugal to Latin America). You will provide practical, forward‑looking legal guidance while helping shape Adobe’s growth in complex and evolving regulatory environments.
This is not simply a senior legal role — it is first and foremost a people‑leadership role.
The successful candidate will be an experienced manager who builds an inclusive and supportive workplace, high‑performing teams; someone who role‑models Adobe’s values every day and brings the same rigour to developing their people as they do to their legal work.
What You’ll Do
Lead and Develop the Team
Lead, develop, and inspire a team of 7 lawyers and legal professionals across Paris and São Paulo, fostering an inclusive, high‑trust environment.
Own the team’s talent strategy, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development in line with Adobe’s Check‑In framework.
Support and develop junior managers, promoting strong people‑leadership practices and inclusivity.
Shape Legal Strategy
Define and implement the legal strategy for Southwest Europe (France, Italy and Spain) and Latin America(Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina as main markets).
Identify and manage legal risk across commercial, regulatory, data privacy, IP, and AI‑related matters, translating risk into clear business guidance.
Advise senior leaders and contribute to industry guidelines and policy discussions.
Partner with the Business
Act as a trusted legal partner to top-level executives, providing proactive, strategic counsel.
Oversee complex commercial agreements, including licensing, services, partnerships, and AI‑related arrangements.
Support sales, marketing, finance, and product teams through practical legal guidance and targeted training.
Drive Operational Excellence
Manage external counsel relationships and the regional legal budget.
Improve legal operations through process optimization, legal technology, AI innovation and workflows, and effective knowledge management.
Ensure high standards of governance, documentation, and integrity in line with Adobe’s Code of Business Conduct.
What You’ll Bring
Experience and Qualifications
Law degree (or equivalent) and active admission to the Bar
12+ years of post-qualification legal experience, with significant in-house experience at a multinational technology, software or IP-intensive company.
> 6 years of people management experience, including direct management of lawyers at varying levels of seniority.
Proven track record of managing geographically dispersed, multicultural teams — experience managing across EMEA and LATAM strongly preferred.
Expert knowledge of commercial/IT/IP law and strong working knowledge of GDPR, AI regulation, and competition law in the French, Spanish and/or Italian context.
Experience overseeing external counsel partnerships and managing legal budgets at a regional level.
Languages
French: Native or bilingual proficiency
English: Full professional proficiency
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian: An advantage
Ways You Work
A champion of Adobe’s core values: Create the Future, Own the Outcome, Raise the Bar, Be Genuine.
Collaborative leader who empowers their team; Influences and adjusts style to drive strong performance across the matrix.
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence and liaise effectively with collaborators at all levels.
An inspirational manager and motivator capable of attracting, developing and advancing great talent and leading a distributed team, drawing on strengths to achieve common goals.
A strategic problem-solver with excellent legal and business judgement. Impeccable integrity and ethical behavior with a strong moral compass and a commitment to transparency.
Adobe Value - What It Looks Like in This Role
Create the Future
Connects the team's daily work to Adobe's broader vision and the future of the legal profession. Champions legal innovation, AI-readiness, and process improvement — with genuine curiosity about emerging tools, regulatory trends, and what comes next. Encourages bold thinking, learning from failure, and a tech-forward attitude across the team.
Own the Outcome
Takes full accountability for the region's legal health and the performance of each member of the team — not just individual matters. Acts decisively, holds self and others to account, and role-models the strong work ethic and business partner attitude expected of the whole team.
Raise the Bar
Sets a high standard for legal quality and management behaviour, and actively invests in the development of every team member at every level. Brings cultural curiosity and sensitivity to how they lead across a geographically and professionally diverse team.
Be Genuine
Creates an environment where people feel able to be themselves and contribute their best work. Leads with integrity and by example — consistent in private and in public. Builds a team culture defined by fairness, adaptability where people and their development are genuinely at the heart of how the team operates.
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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