Legal Counsel – Worldwide Commercial Platforms and Transactions

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TI seeks a skilled, highly motivated, and proactive self-starter to join our Worldwide Commercial Platforms and Transactions team in the legal organization. You will be a trusted advisor to business leaders across a growing global semiconductor company. You will play a key role in reshaping how commercial legal work gets done, moving from matter-by-matter legal work to scalable, data-driven, and AI-enabled legal frameworks.

What you'll do

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Deconstruct classic matter support into legal tasks and design reusable, modular legal structures and legal frameworks that enable speed, scale, and a consistent risk posture.

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Build and maintain the legal data, playbooks, and knowledge assets that support data-driven advice grounded in prior deal history, defined legal positions, and prevailing market norms, and identify cross-matter trends and gaps that inform new positions and process improvements.

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Modernize our operations through standardization, automation, and AI

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Manage your own portfolio of complex, international commercial matters as part of an experienced, collaborative Dallas-based legal team.

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Own the legal path to TI's business outcomes, leading with a clear recommendation even when the answer is not obvious, and seeing matters through to completion.

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Serve as the legal decision-maker on matters requiring attorney judgment, lead matters of high strategic importance, and advise senior management directly.

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Advise across commercial contracts, online commerce, intellectual property, open-source and software licensing, supply chain, marketing, communications, and cybersecurity.

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Apply strong business judgment, working across an international team, to advise on emerging and evolving business models.

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Bring an enduring excitement for learning the semiconductor industry, anticipate emerging trends in technology, markets, and regulation, and proactively partner with the business to address those trends before they arrive.

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Manage the scope, quality, and cost of outside counsel engagements.

How you'll work

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Start with the business objective: quickly assess whether an issue advances it, reframe the issue when needed, and deprioritize it when it does not.

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Bring a healthy dose of informed skepticism and curiosity to every project and conversation: ask the next question, test assumptions (including the business's and your own), and look past the obvious answer to understand the underlying risk and opportunity.

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Bring TI's perspective and your own view assertively into every discussion.

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Begin each project with a clear definition of success, align with stakeholders at the outset, and track whether your actions deliver the intended outcome.

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Escalate with purpose—to drive alignment, enable decisions, or shift strategy—while owning forward progress.

Minimum requirements:

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Licensed, or eligible to become licensed, to practice law in the State of Texas.

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Five or more years of transactional or litigation experience at a leading law firm, in a corporate legal organization, or equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications:

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Proven entrepreneurial mindset and attitude to identify opportunities, to solve issues in a creative and practical manner and to move fast

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Transactional experience, preferably in an international setting.

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Experience with technology licensing, tech transfer, or IP-intensive transactions.

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Experience representing or working with technology and/or manufacturing companies; experience in the defense industry is a plus .

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Hands-on experience building contract playbooks or templates, or using legal technology such as AI tools or contract lifecycle management (CLM) platforms.

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Proven ability to manage multiple matters simultaneously, balancing attention to detail with strategic thinking, supported by project management experience.

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Clear, persuasive written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

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Intellectual curiosity and constructive skepticism, with a track record of probing assumptions, asking incisive questions, and translating what you learn into practical, business-focused advice.

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Genuine enthusiasm for the semiconductor industry and a demonstrated habit of spotting future trends and working proactively with business partners to get ahead of them.

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Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with a diverse international team of lawyers and business managers.

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Commitment to developing others through direct, specific, and honest feedback.