Director & Senior Legal Counsel
WD · Irvine, CA · 1 mo ago
HybridLegalFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: h3 headings for sections present: About the role? Actually job description includes: "Job Description" then description. We need sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections with real specific content. Let's parse.
Content: Intro paragraph about WD building infrastructure... then "Job Description While this position is targeted for our primary location, we are also open to considering qualified candidates for our San Jose, California office." That's location info.
Then "WD is seeking an experienced and commercially astute Director & Senior Legal Counsel to join its Global Commercial Legal team." That's role description.
Then "In this high-impact role, you will serve as a trusted legal partner..." That's responsibilities.
Then "Key Responsibilities" with bullet list.
Then "Qualifications" with required experience, license, subject matter knowledge, language.
Then "Preferred Experience ..." etc.
Then "Competencies & Success Factors" list.
Then "About WD's Legal Team" paragraph.
Then "Additional Information" includes EEO etc (boilerplate to remove). Also "Compensation & Benefits Details" includes pay range info, benefits list.
We need to extract substantive content for sections: About the role (role description), Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities), Requirements (maybe Qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe required experience?), Skills (Competencies & Success Factors?), Benefits (Compensation & Benefits Details includes benefits), Pay (Compensation & Benefits Details includes salary range), Schedule (none). We should not create Schedule if no content.
We must not repeat job title as heading. So no h3 for Director & Senior Legal Counsel.
We need to use for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must only include sections with real specific content. Let's decide which sections have content.
About the role: we have description: "WD is seeking an experienced and commercially astute Director & Senior Legal Counsel to join its Global Commercial Legal team. In this high-impact role, you will serve as a trusted legal partner to WD's Worldwide Sales and Marketing Organization, providing sophisticated legal advice across a broad range of commercial transactions. You will play a central role in shaping go-to-market strategies, managing commercial risk, and supporting commercial operational excellence." That's substantive.
Responsibilities: we have Key Responsibilities bullet list.
Requirements: maybe we can combine required experience etc. The posting has "Qualifications" with required experience, license, subject matter knowledge, language. That could be Requirements. But we also have separate "Qualifications" heading in posting. The instruction says use headings as given: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to map content accordingly.
We could treat "Requirements" as the mandatory qualifications (required experience, license, subject matter knowledge, language). And "Qualifications" as preferred qualifications? But we have both required and preferred. The posting has "Qualifications" section with Required Experience, License, Subject Matter Knowledge, Language, then "Preferred Experience". Then "Competencies & Success Factors". So we could put required items under Requirements, and preferred plus competencies under Qualifications? Or we could put all under Qualifications and leave Requirements empty? But we must not emit heading with filler. So we need to decide which heading has real content.
We have content for both required and preferred. Could split: Requirements = required experience, license, subject matter knowledge, language. Qualifications = preferred experience, additional language proficiency, competencies & success factors? But competencies are more like skills. The instruction includes Skills heading separate. So maybe Skills = competencies & success factors. Qualifications = preferred experience (and maybe additional language). Requirements = required experience etc.
Let's map:
- About the role: role description paragraph.
- Responsibilities: Key Responsibilities bullet list.
- Requirements: Required Experience, License, Subject Matter Knowledge, Language (professional fluency in English). Possibly also note "8 or more years of relevant transactional legal experience..." etc.
- Qualifications: Preferred Experience (working in or with technology companies, additional language proficiency is a plus). Could also include "Additional language proficiency is a plus." That's it.
- Skills: Competencies & Success Factors list (Business Partnership, Transactional Excellence, Independent Judgment, Collaboration, Communication, Leadership & Mentorship, Detail & Rigor, Integrity, Adaptability, Growth Mindset). Those are skills/competencies.
- Benefits: from Compensation & Benefits Details: list of benefits (paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan.)
- Pay: salary range info: "The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York." Also mention factors influencing pay. That's specific enough.
- Schedule: no specific schedule info; we should not create.
We must remove boilerplate: EEO, legal, accommodation request, application deadline, notice to candidates, etc. Also remove "Additional Information" EEO etc. Also remove "Based on our experience..." etc. Also remove "Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages..." maybe keep? It's about compensation but could be considered boilerplate? It's still about pay but maybe keep as part of Pay section? It's somewhat generic but still about pay. Might keep but it's not specific. Safer to keep only substantive: salary range description and benefits list. The note about pay not being wages until earned is generic; could be considered boilerplate. I'd omit.
Also remove "We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including ..." we keep that list.
Also remove "Please note that not all roles are eligible..." maybe keep as part of Benefits? It's about LTI eligibility; could be considered benefits detail. Might keep but it's somewhat generic. I'd keep the list of benefits and maybe mention LTI program eligibility as part of Benefits? The posting includes LTI program description. That's specific enough to keep.
Thus Benefits section could include: eligibility for STI Plan, SIP, LTI program (RSUs or cash equivalents), plus list of benefits.
Pay section: salary range description and factors.
Now produce HTML.
Structure:
for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must only include sections with real specific content. Let's decide which sections have content.
About the role: we have description: "WD is seeking an experienced and commercially astute Director & Senior Legal Counsel to join its Global Commercial Legal team. In this high-impact role, you will serve as a trusted legal partner to WD's Worldwide Sales and Marketing Organization, providing sophisticated legal advice across a broad range of commercial transactions. You will play a central role in shaping go-to-market strategies, managing commercial risk, and supporting commercial operational excellence." That's substantive.
Responsibilities: we have Key Responsibilities bullet list.
Requirements: maybe we can combine required experience etc. The posting has "Qualifications" with required experience, license, subject matter knowledge, language. That could be Requirements. But we also have separate "Qualifications" heading in posting. The instruction says use headings as given: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to map content accordingly.
We could treat "Requirements" as the mandatory qualifications (required experience, license, subject matter knowledge, language). And "Qualifications" as preferred qualifications? But we have both required and preferred. The posting has "Qualifications" section with Required Experience, License, Subject Matter Knowledge, Language, then "Preferred Experience". Then "Competencies & Success Factors". So we could put required items under Requirements, and preferred plus competencies under Qualifications? Or we could put all under Qualifications and leave Requirements empty? But we must not emit heading with filler. So we need to decide which heading has real content.
We have content for both required and preferred. Could split: Requirements = required experience, license, subject matter knowledge, language. Qualifications = preferred experience, additional language proficiency, competencies & success factors? But competencies are more like skills. The instruction includes Skills heading separate. So maybe Skills = competencies & success factors. Qualifications = preferred experience (and maybe additional language). Requirements = required experience etc.
Let's map:
- About the role: role description paragraph.
- Responsibilities: Key Responsibilities bullet list.
- Requirements: Required Experience, License, Subject Matter Knowledge, Language (professional fluency in English). Possibly also note "8 or more years of relevant transactional legal experience..." etc.
- Qualifications: Preferred Experience (working in or with technology companies, additional language proficiency is a plus). Could also include "Additional language proficiency is a plus." That's it.
- Skills: Competencies & Success Factors list (Business Partnership, Transactional Excellence, Independent Judgment, Collaboration, Communication, Leadership & Mentorship, Detail & Rigor, Integrity, Adaptability, Growth Mindset). Those are skills/competencies.
- Benefits: from Compensation & Benefits Details: list of benefits (paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan.)
- Pay: salary range info: "The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York." Also mention factors influencing pay. That's specific enough.
- Schedule: no specific schedule info; we should not create.
We must remove boilerplate: EEO, legal, accommodation request, application deadline, notice to candidates, etc. Also remove "Additional Information" EEO etc. Also remove "Based on our experience..." etc. Also remove "Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages..." maybe keep? It's about compensation but could be considered boilerplate? It's still about pay but maybe keep as part of Pay section? It's somewhat generic but still about pay. Might keep but it's not specific. Safer to keep only substantive: salary range description and benefits list. The note about pay not being wages until earned is generic; could be considered boilerplate. I'd omit.
Also remove "We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including ..." we keep that list.
Also remove "Please note that not all roles are eligible..." maybe keep as part of Benefits? It's about LTI eligibility; could be considered benefits detail. Might keep but it's somewhat generic. I'd keep the list of benefits and maybe mention LTI program eligibility as part of Benefits? The posting includes LTI program description. That's specific enough to keep.
Thus Benefits section could include: eligibility for STI Plan, SIP, LTI program (RSUs or cash equivalents), plus list of benefits.
Pay section: salary range description and factors.
Now produce HTML.
Structure:
About the role
WD is seeking an experienced and commercially astute Director & Senior Legal Counsel to join its Global Commercial Legal team. In this high-impact role, you will serve as a trusted legal partner to WD's Worldwide Sales and Marketing Organization, providing sophisticated legal advice across a broad range of commercial transactions. You will play a central role in shaping go-to-market strategies, managing commercial risk, and supporting commercial operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, negotiate, and finalize a wide range of commercial sales and customer agreements, including master purchasing agreements, distribution agreements, nondisclosure agreements, statements of work, amendments, and related business documents.
- Partner closely with business stakeholders to evaluate transaction risks, develop practical risk mitigation strategies, and drive deals to close efficiently.
- Advise on and support the development of go-to-market strategies from a legal perspective, including drafting enabling agreements and engaging cross-functionally to assess and address legal and business risks.
- Review and contribute to responses to customer RFPs and RFQs in collaboration with internal teams across sales, finance, and operations.
- Support and enhance end-to-end contract management process, including the development and maintenance of strategic playbooks, standard templates, and contract lifecycle management (CLM) workflows related to sales transactions.
- Champion the use of technology and process innovation to improve efficiency and consistency across the global commercial legal function.
- Oversee and provide quality guidance to contract administrators and managers within the commercial organization as needed.
- Lead or contribute to special legal and business initiatives as assigned, demonstrating flexibility and a collaborative approach across the broader legal team.
Requirements
- 8 or more years of relevant transactional legal experience in a law firm, in-house legal department, or government legal setting, with a demonstrated track record of drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial and sales-related agreements.
- Current member in good standing of a U.S. State Bar, or Registered In-House Counsel in California (or eligible therefor); Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school or its equivalent.
- Working knowledge of U.S. consumer protection, competition, and intellectual property laws.
- Professional fluency in English, both written and verbal.
Qualifications
- Preferred experience working in or with technology companies or the broader technology industry.
- Additional language proficiency is a plus.
Skills
- Business Partnership: Ability to engage deeply with business objectives, translate legal risk into actionable strategy, and serve as a trusted advisor rather than a gatekeeper.
- Transactional Excellence: Consistent delivery of high-quality, timely work product across a broad range of commercial matters.
- Independent Judgment: Proven ability to operate autonomously, manage competing priorities, and exercise sound judgment with limited supervision.
- Collaboration: Effective cross-functional partner who builds trust with internal stakeholders, teammates, and outside counsel; comfortable working across cultures and time zones.
- Communication: Clear, concise, and respectful communicator — both one-on-one and in group settings.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Willingness to guide and develop less experienced counsel and contract administrators; leads by example.
- Detail & Rigor: Strong analytical skills and meticulous attention to detail in all work product.
- Integrity: Unwavering commitment to WD's corporate values, ethics, and Code of Conduct.
- Adaptability: Thrives in a demanding, high-volume environment while maintaining quality and positive relationships.
- Growth Mindset: Self-motivated, resourceful, and enthusiastic about continuous learning and improvement.
Benefits
- Eligibility for bonuses under WD’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) based on Company and individual performance.
- Eligibility to participate in the annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents.
- Paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program.
- Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity.
- Tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan.
Pay
The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to: relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; skills, ability, knowledge of the job; performance, contribution and