Join Adobe’s Benefits Center of Excellence team and play a meaningful role in creating exceptional employee experiences through our Leave of Absence, Disability, Life, and Time Off programs. You’ll help design, deliver, continuously improve and measure the impact of benefits that empower our people to thrive both at work and in life. Our benefits philosophy is to design and deliver inclusive, competitive, and value driven benefits programs that enable peace of mind and productivity, with strategic balance between experience, scale, and financial stewardship.
We are looking for an innovative thought leader for this role, someone who will help transform our Leave of Absence program into a world-class experience and mentor other Benefit analysts on the team. Someone who can make Adobe’s Benefits philosophy come alive by leading benefits programs across US & Canada. This role will be based in the US at our San Francisco or San Jose Office.
What You will do
We identify the following primary responsibilities for this role. However, the list is not exhaustive as priorities might vary.
Lead Benefits Program Management
Support leadership in the execution of strategic goals, multi-year benefit planning, deliver on program objectives, supply industry best practices, conduct market benchmarking, and help with operational initiatives.
Develop strong partnerships with Payroll, Legal, Employee Relations, HR Business Partners, Risk, EX/TR Operations, EX Tech, Accommodations team, Finance, VMO and other stakeholders.
Plan and execute special projects throughout the year, such as request for proposal (RFP) processes, vendor implementations, plan design changes, and ad-hoc projects with internal business partners.
Supervise all compliance activities and set up statutory plans, ensuring the programs are meeting all state, federal and provincial compliance, as well as adherence to company policies and applicable leave laws.
Track and analyze absence data and metrics, as well as operational trends, workflow efficiencies, service delivery, and program effectiveness.
Ensure all operational compliance through program audits, employee communications, documentation reviews, Adobe pay practices, monitoring regulatory requirements. Using an innovative mind to address systemic issues with swift corrective action.
Drive resolution on complex leave and life cases, including intermittent leave, extension requests, return-to-work and ADA-related leave requests.
Oversee third-party vendor management including performance, service delivery, addressing operational concerns, renewals, and all the day-to-day leave administration providing a world-class white glove experience.
7+ years of directly applicable and progressive benefit program management experience in leave administration, benefits management, consulting, or case management experience.
Strong knowledge of leave practice and regulations for FMLA and ADA leave processes, state leave laws, VDI self-funded plan, military provisions, general provincial laws and rights, accommodations, other federal regulations, and return-to-work practices.
Demonstrated experience managing complex leave cases, implementing business process excellence, providing stellar employee experience, utilizing HRIS/leave management systems, monitoring compliance, and providing operational effectiveness and sound decision-making.
Knowledge of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) regulations, ADA, HIPAA, and other applicable federal, state, and local laws governing benefits.
Strong organizational, analytical, problem solving, critical thinking and communication skills, as well as ability to exercise sound judgement, maintain confidentiality with sensitive employee information.
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 $93,600 - $200,700 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 $138,600 - $200,700

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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