Senior Manager, Adversarial Fraud Testing

Adobe

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On-site
Location
San Jose, CANew York, NYAustin, TX
Salary
$160,200–$320,000 / yr
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Full-time
Posted
23 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Adversarial Fraud Testing

The Senior Manager, Adversarial Fraud Testing leads the Adversarial Fraud Testing function within Global Consumer Trust. This role involves building and leading a high-performing team to proactively simulate and recreate real-world fraud and abuse attacks against externally facing products and fraud controls. The manager will develop testing strategies to identify weaknesses in customer journeys, APIs, account creation, payments, and entitlements. Key responsibilities include recreating significant fraud attacks, establishing repeatable testing methodologies, and partnering with Engineering and Security teams to prioritize remediation. Required technical skills include Python, APIs/HTTP, automation, debugging, Git, and SQL. Candidates should also possess experience with JavaScript, cloud services, and browser automation. The role solves the business problem of identifying systemic weaknesses and validating defenses against evolving adversarial techniques to reduce risk.

What you'll do

  • Build and lead the Adversarial Fraud Testing function within the Global Consumer Trust organization.
  • Develop a strategy to simulate real-world fraud and abuse across customer journeys, APIs, and payments.
  • Recreate significant fraud attacks to identify control weaknesses and determine opportunities to strengthen defenses.
  • Build repeatable testing capabilities using automation, APIs, and scripting to simulate fraud at scale.
  • Validate new and existing fraud controls to ensure mitigations effectively disrupt attack paths.
  • Establish processes for documenting findings, assessing risk, and tracking remediation through completion and retesting.
  • Identify systemic weaknesses across tests to influence the company's fraud prevention strategy and product roadmaps.
  • Build and develop a high-performing team with technical, fraud, and adversarial expertise.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Economics, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of hands-on industry experience.
  • Demonstrated experience leading technical teams in fraud prevention, adversarial testing, security, abuse prevention, risk engineering, or a related field.
  • Technical fluency with APIs, automation, scripting, data analysis, and modern web and cloud architectures.
  • Proficiency in Python/similar programming, APIs/HTTP, automation, debugging, Git, and data/SQL.
  • Strong understanding of how fraudsters exploit digital products, customer journeys, APIs, identity systems, and payments.
  • Experience developing structured testing methodologies and translating findings into actionable product and engineering improvements.
  • JavaScript, cloud services, browser automation, authentication/identity systems, CI/CD, and security testing tools (preferred).

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