Legal Counsel - Commercial Engagements

Texas Instruments•Dallas, TX

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About The Position

Texas Instruments’ Law Department is seeking a skilled, motivated, and proactive attorney to join its Worldwide Commercial Engagements team. The role supports a global semiconductor company in a fast-moving environment and serves as a trusted legal advisor to leaders across TI. The successful candidate will manage an independent portfolio and work with an international team to advise on emerging and evolving business models. The position offers broad international exposure to complex commercial contracts, online commerce, intellectual property, open-source and software licensing, supply chain, marketing, crisis communications, and cybersecurity. The attorney will apply business judgment, take initiative, anticipate issues, and drive matters to completion. They will define project success, align with stakeholders, assess whether issues advance meaningful business objectives, and escalate purposefully to improve outcomes, enable decisions, or shift strategy while maintaining responsibility for progress. The role will help move legal work from custom, one-off advice to modular contract architecture by developing reusable contract structures and legal frameworks that enable speed, scale, and a consistent risk posture. The attorney will also support modernization through standardization, automation, and AI, and contribute to data, playbooks, and knowledge assets that enable data-driven advice grounded in deal history, defined legal positions, and market norms.

Requirements

Must be, or be eligible to become, licensed to practice law in Texas.
At least five years of experience practicing transactional law (preferred) and/or litigation-related work at a top law firm, corporate law department, or equivalent; ideally in an international context.

Nice To Haves

Experience with technology licensing, technology transfer, or IP-intensive transactions.
Strong advocacy, critical-thinking, and analytical skills.
Ability to solve problems creatively, independently, and collaboratively.
Ability to balance attention to detail with strategic thinking.
Ability to manage multiple issues or projects simultaneously; project management experience.
Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
Willingness to tackle new subject areas and eagerness to learn continuously.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with a diverse international team of lawyers and business managers.
Interest and enthusiasm for leveraging technology in the provision of legal services.
Experience representing or interacting with technology, automotive, and/or manufacturing companies.

Responsibilities

Advise TI leaders on commercial engagements and emerging or evolving business models.
Manage an independent portfolio of legal matters and drive them to completion.
Assess whether issues support meaningful business objectives, define project success, align stakeholders, and track outcomes.
Escalate issues thoughtfully to improve outcomes, enable decisions, or materially shift strategy while maintaining forward progress.
Create reusable contract structures and legal frameworks to support scalable, consistent commercial contracting.
Help modernize legal operations through standardization, automation, and AI.
Contribute to maintaining legal data, playbooks, and knowledge assets that support data-driven advice.