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Solving complexity. Accelerating results.
At Penguin Solutions, we understand the boundless potential of technology and support our customers in turning cutting-edge ideas into outcomes—faster, and at any scale.
With over two decades of experience as trusted advisors, Penguin Solutions is an end-to-end technology company solving the industry’s most complex challenges in computing, memory, and LED solutions. Penguin designs, builds, deploys, and manages high-performance, high-availability enterprise solutions, allowing customers to achieve their breakthrough innovations.
Solving complexity. Accelerating results.
At Penguin Solutions, we understand the boundless potential of technology and support our customers in turning cutting-edge ideas into outcomes—faster, and at any scale.
With over two decades of experience as trusted advisors, Penguin Solutions is an end-to-end technology company solving the industry’s most complex challenges in computing, memory, and LED solutions. Penguin designs, builds, deploys, and manages high-performance, high-availability enterprise solutions, allowing customers to achieve their breakthrough innovations.
Director, Commercial Legal
At Penguin Solutions (Nasdaq: PENG) – The AI Factory Platform Company – we’re building a team of innovators who thrive on collaboration, creativity, and the opportunity to help shape the future of AI. As part of the AI technology revolution, our teams design, build, deploy, and manage AI factories for enterprises, sovereign AI initiatives, and neocloud providers worldwide.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Penguin Solutions operates globally through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations. For nearly three decades, we have operated at the intersection of memory and AI/HPC infrastructure. That engineering expertise positions us to power the next generation of AI workloads, from training to inference and agentic AI at scale.
Penguin Solutions brings together differentiated infrastructure software, advanced memory, compute systems, end-to-end services, and industry-leading partner solutions in a full-stack AI factory platform designed to help customers deploy and scale AI workloads with speed and precision.
At Penguin Solutions, we value ideas over hierarchy and believe in servant leadership, where leaders enable teams to do their best work. We empower employees to take ownership, drive innovation, and grow through challenging work, continuous learning, and exposure to advanced AI tools and technologies. With flexibility where it matters and a strong focus on outcomes, Penguin Solutions is a place to do your best work, grow your career, and make a meaningful impact.
Job Overview
We are seeking a Director, Commercial Legal to serve as a key legal partner supporting high-impact, global commercial transactions across our AI infrastructure, memory, and advanced computing businesses. The level will depend on experience, but the mandate is clear: this person will be the day-to-day owner of the company's commercial legal function for large, complex transactions, with significant autonomy to shape strategy and priorities.
This is a position at the center of a rapidly scaling AI business where you will own and drive large, complex commercial transactions end-to-end, while managing a high-volume, diverse portfolio of commercial deals. Your work will span everything from routine vendor and procurement agreements to complex, high-value transactions that enable production-scale AI deployments for enterprise and next-generation customers.
You will work closely with sales, operations, supply chain, and product teams to structure, negotiate, and execute agreements that directly support Penguin’s strategic growth and customer expansion.
The ideal candidate brings a strong commercial foundation, thrives in a dynamic environment, and can translate legal risk into business velocity, while knowing when to escalate novel or high-risk issues.
Why This Role
- Front-row seat to the AI infrastructure transformation from training to inference and enterprise deployment
- Direct impact on strategic, revenue-generating transactions
- Ownership of a broad, high-volume deal portfolio spanning routine agreements to strategic, novel transactions
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies (AI systems, memory architectures, data center infrastructure)
- High visibility across legal leadership and business teams
- Opportunity to help scale contracting frameworks for a rapidly growing global platform company
Responsibilities
1. Strategic Commercial Contracting (Core Focus)
- Own large, complex commercial transactions end-to-end, from structuring through negotiation and execution, while independently managing a range of deal complexity from standard to highly customized, strategic transactions
- Lead drafting, review, and negotiation of simple to complex commercial agreements, including:
- Enterprise customer agreements for AI infrastructure and hardware solutions
- Vendor, supplier, and procurement agreements
- Supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, and distribution arrangements
- Balance legal risk, deal velocity, and commercial objectives in a fast-moving environment
- Provide clear, actionable guidance to business stakeholders on contract structure, risk allocation, and negotiation strategy
2. AI Infrastructure, Hardware & Supply Chain Focus
- Support transactions involving AI infrastructure deployments, hardware systems, and memory-driven architectures
- Advise on key issues including:
- Delivery, acceptance, and performance standards
- Warranty frameworks and support models
- Liability allocation in complex, multi-party environments
- Downstream customer and ecosystem obligations
- Partner closely with operations and supply chain teams to ensure contracts align with real-world deployment and scaling requirements
- Identify recurring risk patterns and drive standardization and scalability in contracting approaches
3. Business Partnership & Growth Enablement
- Act as a trusted advisor to sales, product, finance, and operations teams
- Enable efficient deal execution by delivering practical, business-oriented legal solutions
- Support Penguin’s expansion into enterprise, neocloud, and sovereign AI markets, including longer-cycle, high-value deployments
- Contribute to development of:
- Contract templates and playbooks
- Scalable processes for increasing deal volume
- Training and enablement for business teams
4. Risk Management & Escalation
- Exercise strong judgment in determining when to act independently versus escalate
- Spot and escalate regulatory, compliance, or non-standard risk issues
- Support transactions involving regulated or government-adjacent customers, as applicable
Qualifications
- JD from an accredited law school
- Active bar membership in good standing
- 12+ years of relevant legal experience, with substantial commercial contracting expertise
- Demonstrated ability to independently negotiate complex customer and vendor agreements
- Experience supporting technology, hardware, infrastructure, or supply chain-driven businesses
- Strong business judgment and ability to translate legal risk into practical guidance
- Excellent communication skills with both legal and non-legal stakeholders
- Comfort operating in a remote, fast-paced, and cross-functional environment
- Comfortable using AI tools in legal workflows, with an interest in identifying opportunities to deploy AI to improve efficiency, quality, and scalability within the legal function.
- Highly pragmatic, business-oriented, and solutions-driven
- Comfortable operating with autonomy and accountability
- Strong collaborator across technical and commercial teams
- Curious and adaptable in a rapidly evolving AI landscape
- Organized and capable of managing multiple priorities
- Positive, low-ego, and team-oriented
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in AI infrastructure, data centers, memory systems, or advanced computing environments
- Familiarity with export controls or regulated customer environments
- In-house experience at a high-growth technology or infrastructure company
- Prior law firm experience handling complex commercial transactions
Location
This position is a hybrid position in Durham, North Carolina or Fremont, California. Our hybrid schedule is 3x per week onsite. However, we are open to strong remote candidates in the United States.
Travel
This position may require periodic travel to our headquarters in the California Bay Area for transaction-related work, customer meetings, and team meetings. Travel is purposeful and planned around key business events.
Compensation & Benefits
The base pay range that the Company reasonably expects to pay for this position in the United States is $225,000 - $260,000; the pay ultimately offered may vary based on business considerations, including location, work arrangement, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and education. The position is bonus-eligible, and there are medical, dental, and vision benefits available. There is a 401k saving plan and other benefits, such as Paid Time Off, Life Insurance, and an Employee Assistance Plan.
Inclusion & Belonging Statement
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment that embraces differences and fosters belonging for all.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly committed to all policies which will afford equal opportunity employment to all qualified persons without regard to age, national origin, race, ethnicity, creed, gender, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Nearest Major Market: Durham
Nearest Secondary Market: Raleigh
Solving complexity. Accelerating results.
At Penguin Solutions, we understand the boundless potential of technology and support our customers in turning cutting-edge ideas into outcomes—faster, and at any scale.
With over two decades of experience as trusted advisors, Penguin Solutions is an end-to-end technology company solving the industry’s most complex challenges in computing, memory, and LED solutions. Penguin designs, builds, deploys, and manages high-performance, high-availability enterprise solutions, allowing customers to achieve their breakthrough innovations.
Solving complexity. Accelerating results.
At Penguin Solutions, we understand the boundless potential of technology and support our customers in turning cutting-edge ideas into outcomes—faster, and at any scale.
With over two decades of experience as trusted advisors, Penguin Solutions is an end-to-end technology company solving the industry’s most complex challenges in computing, memory, and LED solutions. Penguin designs, builds, deploys, and manages high-performance, high-availability enterprise solutions, allowing customers to achieve their breakthrough innovations.
Director, Commercial Legal
At Penguin Solutions (Nasdaq: PENG) – The AI Factory Platform Company – we’re building a team of innovators who thrive on collaboration, creativity, and the opportunity to help shape the future of AI. As part of the AI technology revolution, our teams design, build, deploy, and manage AI factories for enterprises, sovereign AI initiatives, and neocloud providers worldwide.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Penguin Solutions operates globally through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations. For nearly three decades, we have operated at the intersection of memory and AI/HPC infrastructure. That engineering expertise positions us to power the next generation of AI workloads, from training to inference and agentic AI at scale.
Penguin Solutions brings together differentiated infrastructure software, advanced memory, compute systems, end-to-end services, and industry-leading partner solutions in a full-stack AI factory platform designed to help customers deploy and scale AI workloads with speed and precision.
At Penguin Solutions, we value ideas over hierarchy and believe in servant leadership, where leaders enable teams to do their best work. We empower employees to take ownership, drive innovation, and grow through challenging work, continuous learning, and exposure to advanced AI tools and technologies. With flexibility where it matters and a strong focus on outcomes, Penguin Solutions is a place to do your best work, grow your career, and make a meaningful impact.
Job Overview
We are seeking a Director, Commercial Legal to serve as a key legal partner supporting high-impact, global commercial transactions across our AI infrastructure, memory, and advanced computing businesses. The level will depend on experience, but the mandate is clear: this person will be the day-to-day owner of the company's commercial legal function for large, complex transactions, with significant autonomy to shape strategy and priorities.
This is a position at the center of a rapidly scaling AI business where you will own and drive large, complex commercial transactions end-to-end, while managing a high-volume, diverse portfolio of commercial deals. Your work will span everything from routine vendor and procurement agreements to complex, high-value transactions that enable production-scale AI deployments for enterprise and next-generation customers.
You will work closely with sales, operations, supply chain, and product teams to structure, negotiate, and execute agreements that directly support Penguin’s strategic growth and customer expansion.
The ideal candidate brings a strong commercial foundation, thrives in a dynamic environment, and can translate legal risk into business velocity, while knowing when to escalate novel or high-risk issues.
Why This Role
- Front-row seat to the AI infrastructure transformation from training to inference and enterprise deployment
- Direct impact on strategic, revenue-generating transactions
- Ownership of a broad, high-volume deal portfolio spanning routine agreements to strategic, novel transactions
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies (AI systems, memory architectures, data center infrastructure)
- High visibility across legal leadership and business teams
- Opportunity to help scale contracting frameworks for a rapidly growing global platform company
Responsibilities
1. Strategic Commercial Contracting (Core Focus)
- Own large, complex commercial transactions end-to-end, from structuring through negotiation and execution, while independently managing a range of deal complexity from standard to highly customized, strategic transactions
- Lead drafting, review, and negotiation of simple to complex commercial agreements, including:
- Enterprise customer agreements for AI infrastructure and hardware solutions
- Vendor, supplier, and procurement agreements
- Supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, and distribution arrangements
- Balance legal risk, deal velocity, and commercial objectives in a fast-moving environment
- Provide clear, actionable guidance to business stakeholders on contract structure, risk allocation, and negotiation strategy
2. AI Infrastructure, Hardware & Supply Chain Focus
- Support transactions involving AI infrastructure deployments, hardware systems, and memory-driven architectures
- Advise on key issues including:
- Delivery, acceptance, and performance standards
- Warranty frameworks and support models
- Liability allocation in complex, multi-party environments
- Downstream customer and ecosystem obligations
- Partner closely with operations and supply chain teams to ensure contracts align with real-world deployment and scaling requirements
- Identify recurring risk patterns and drive standardization and scalability in contracting approaches
3. Business Partnership & Growth Enablement
- Act as a trusted advisor to sales, product, finance, and operations teams
- Enable efficient deal execution by delivering practical, business-oriented legal solutions
- Support Penguin’s expansion into enterprise, neocloud, and sovereign AI markets, including longer-cycle, high-value deployments
- Contribute to development of:
- Contract templates and playbooks
- Scalable processes for increasing deal volume
- Training and enablement for business teams
4. Risk Management & Escalation
- Exercise strong judgment in determining when to act independently versus escalate
- Spot and escalate regulatory, compliance, or non-standard risk issues
- Support transactions involving regulated or government-adjacent customers, as applicable
Qualifications
- JD from an accredited law school
- Active bar membership in good standing
- 12+ years of relevant legal experience, with substantial commercial contracting expertise
- Demonstrated ability to independently negotiate complex customer and vendor agreements
- Experience supporting technology, hardware, infrastructure, or supply chain-driven businesses
- Strong business judgment and ability to translate legal risk into practical guidance
- Excellent communication skills with both legal and non-legal stakeholders
- Comfort operating in a remote, fast-paced, and cross-functional environment
- Comfortable using AI tools in legal workflows, with an interest in identifying opportunities to deploy AI to improve efficiency, quality, and scalability within the legal function.
- Highly pragmatic, business-oriented, and solutions-driven
- Comfortable operating with autonomy and accountability
- Strong collaborator across technical and commercial teams
- Curious and adaptable in a rapidly evolving AI landscape
- Organized and capable of managing multiple priorities
- Positive, low-ego, and team-oriented
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in AI infrastructure, data centers, memory systems, or advanced computing environments
- Familiarity with export controls or regulated customer environments
- In-house experience at a high-growth technology or infrastructure company
- Prior law firm experience handling complex commercial transactions
Location
This position is a hybrid position in Durham, North Carolina or Fremont, California. Our hybrid schedule is 3x per week onsite. However, we are open to strong remote candidates in the United States.
Travel
This position may require periodic travel to our headquarters in the California Bay Area for transaction-related work, customer meetings, and team meetings. Travel is purposeful and planned around key business events.
Compensation & Benefits
The base pay range that the Company reasonably expects to pay for this position in the United States is $225,000 - $260,000; the pay ultimately offered may vary based on business considerations, including location, work arrangement, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and education. The position is bonus-eligible, and there are medical, dental, and vision benefits available. There is a 401k saving plan and other benefits, such as Paid Time Off, Life Insurance, and an Employee Assistance Plan.
Inclusion & Belonging Statement
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment that embraces differences and fosters belonging for all.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly committed to all policies which will afford equal opportunity employment to all qualified persons without regard to age, national origin, race, ethnicity, creed, gender, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Nearest Major Market: Durham
Nearest Secondary Market: Raleigh
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- Law & Legal Services
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in legal director jobs.
- Juris Doctor degree and active state bar admission required
- 10 or more years of legal experience with at least 3 in a leadership role
- Demonstrated experience managing and developing in-house legal teams
- Deep expertise in corporate governance, compliance, or regulatory matters
- Proven ability to advise C-suite and board-level stakeholders on legal risk
- Experience with contract negotiation, drafting, and enterprise-level transactions
Tips for Your Legal Director Job Search
Tailor your resume to business outcomes
Legal directors are evaluated on how their work affected the organization, not just their legal expertise. Reframe every bullet to show what you protected, resolved, or enabled for the business, such as contracts negotiated, litigation costs reduced, or regulatory risks mitigated.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists legal director openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Highlight cross-functional leadership experience
Hiring managers for this role want to see that you can work alongside finance, HR, and executive leadership, not just manage legal matters. Name the departments you partnered with and describe a decision you shaped outside pure legal counsel.
Match your specialization to the sector
A legal director résumé strong in healthcare regulatory compliance reads very differently from one built around M&A or employment law. Before applying, identify the sector's dominant legal concerns and make sure your most relevant experience appears in the top third of your résumé.
Prepare a strategic legal initiative story
Interviewers at the director level will ask you to describe a legal program or policy you built from scratch. Have a concise story ready that covers the problem you identified, how you designed the solution, and the measurable result it produced for the organization.
Negotiate using total compensation benchmarks
Legal directors often receive equity, bonus structures, and professional development budgets alongside base pay. Before your offer conversation, research total compensation for your sector and geography using publicly filed proxy statements and published compensation surveys so you can negotiate the full package, not just base salary.
Legal Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most legal directors?
The companies hiring the most legal directors right now include WilmerHale, CRUSOE, and Airwallex, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Demand is strongest in industries with complex regulatory environments, including healthcare, financial services, and technology.
How many legal director jobs are remote?
About 80% of legal director openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting the role's need for in-person executive engagement. The sub-areas most likely to support remote arrangements are compliance and privacy law, where work is document- and policy-driven rather than tied to a physical location.
How do you become a legal director?
Becoming a legal director typically requires earning a Juris Doctor, passing the bar in your state, and spending years building deep expertise in a specialty such as employment law, compliance, or corporate transactions. From there, you need to move into roles with increasing management responsibility, whether supervising junior attorneys or leading a small legal team, before stepping into a director-level position.
Can you get hired as a legal director without prior director experience?
Yes, you can move into a legal director role without holding that exact title before, but you need to demonstrate the substance of the job. Employers look for candidates who have managed legal teams or projects, advised senior leadership, and owned a significant area of legal risk. A strong record of cross-functional influence and business partnership often matters as much as your formal title history.
What does the legal director interview process look like?
The legal director interview process typically involves an initial screening with HR or a recruiter, followed by a substantive interview with the general counsel or chief legal officer, and then panel discussions with business unit leaders or C-suite executives. Candidates are often asked to walk through a complex legal challenge they managed and explain how they advised the business. Some employers include a written scenario or case exercise before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to legal director jobs?
You can find and apply to legal director jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Find roles that fit your specialization and experience level and apply directly to each listing.
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