Job Description

This role serves as a key legal advisor to the Revenue organization, partnering closely with Sales, Sales Operations, and cross-functional stakeholders to help drive commercial outcomes while managing legal and business risk. Provides practical, solutions-oriented counsel on commercial sales matters, including customer contracting strategy, negotiation support, and interpretation of key terms across a range of customer agreements. Leads and oversees the drafting, review, and negotiation of complex commercial contracts (e.g., master agreements, order forms, statements of work, renewals, amendments, and related documents) by aligning deal terms with company policies and applicable laws. Establishes scalable contracting frameworks and playbooks by developing and maintaining templates, clause guidance, approval pathways, and escalation mechanisms to improve consistency and cycle time. Identifies and mitigates legal and compliance risks affecting revenue-generating activities by advising on topics such as confidentiality, data protection, intellectual property, warranties, indemnities, limitation of liability, and dispute provisions, and by coordinating with specialists as needed.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides expert legal counsel on highly complex commercial, regulatory, and dispute matters to enable business objectives while managing legal, regulatory, and reputational risk.
• Leads legal strategy for critical transactions and strategic agreements by structuring terms, negotiating risk allocation, and ensuring enforceable protections aligned with governance requirements.
• Advises senior leaders on legal and compliance implications of significant business initiatives by identifying key issues, evaluating options, and recommending practical mitigation strategies.
• Develops, maintains, and stewards legal standards, templates, playbooks, and negotiation guidance to improve contracting consistency, efficiency, and risk outcomes across the organization.
• Guides compliance and governance execution by interpreting laws, advising on controls, and supporting responses to audits, inquiries, and escalations.
• Builds legal capability across the team by coaching other legal professionals, providing subject-matter guidance, and leading knowledge sharing on complex topics.

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

• US licensed, with 8+ years of experience
• Substantial commercial experience, preferably at least some of which has been gained in-house
• Demonstrated expertise in drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements
• Proven track record in providing pragmatic and business-focused legal advice to senior stakeholders
• Ownership of projects and tasks through to completion

SKILLS:

• Strong negotiation and contract drafting skills
• Excellent written, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders

PREFERRED:

• Experience in hardware and/or semiconductor industries

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee's pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• 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. This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including 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 Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.