Overview In this Senior Manager, Legal Operations role, you drive operational excellence across Adobe's Legal & Government Relations function. You'll lead outside counsel and vendor governance, financial planning, and data-driven insights to inform leadership decisions. The role blends people leadership with AI-enabled modernization to elevate the legal function at scale. You will partner closely with Finance, Procurement, and cross-functionally to deliver measurable business impact. This is a high-visibility position focused on transforming efficiency, spend management, and strategic operations.
Responsibilities- Manage external counsel and legal vendor programs, including governance, performance, billing, and cost efficiency
- Own LGR financial operations: budgeting, forecasting, accruals, spend reporting, and controls
- Collaborate with Finance and Procurement to improve cost efficiency and financial planning
- Build operational metrics, dashboards, and executive insights to promote data-driven decisions
- Provide operational and financial insights to support long-term planning and leadership decisions
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and decision-making through innovative practices and new technologies
- Support transformation initiatives by providing operational context, data governance, and value measurement
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team with clear priorities and operating rhythms
Key requirements- Significant experience in Legal Operations, Business Operations, Finance, Consulting, or related field
- Proven track record leading and developing high-performing teams
- Deep expertise managing outside counsel programs, legal spend, vendor relationships, budgeting, and forecasting
- Strong business and financial acumen with ability to translate data into executive insights
- Proven ability to manage multiple complex initiatives in a dynamic environment
- Outstanding communication, collaboration, and influencing skills
- Track record of driving innovation and challenging the status quo with measurable impact
- Passion for AI, technology, and modernizing organizational operations
- communication
- collaboration
- influencing
- data-driven decision making
- financial forecasting
- operational reporting
