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As of Aug 26, 2026, the average yearly pay for director legal counsel in the United States is $139,444.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $109,000.00 and $160,500.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What does a director legal counsel do?

A Director Legal Counsel is a senior legal professional responsible for overseeing a company's legal affairs and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations. They provide strategic legal advice to executive management, manage legal risk, and often oversee a team of in-house lawyers. Their duties typically include drafting and reviewing contracts, managing litigation, advising on corporate governance, and developing legal strategies that align with business objectives. They also collaborate with external law firms and represent the company in negotiations or legal proceedings. The role requires strong leadership, negotiation, and analytical skills, along with extensive legal experience.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a director legal counsel?

To thrive as a Director Legal Counsel, you need a Juris Doctor (JD) degree, active bar membership, and substantial experience in corporate or commercial law. Familiarity with contract management systems, regulatory compliance software, and legal research databases like Westlaw or LexisNexis is typically required. Strong leadership, negotiation, and communication skills set outstanding candidates apart, enabling effective guidance of legal teams and stakeholders. These competencies ensure sound legal risk management, strategic business support, and organizational compliance.

What are some of the main challenges a director legal counsel faces when aligning legal strategy with business objectives?

A Director Legal Counsel often encounters the challenge of balancing rigorous legal compliance with the company's strategic goals. This involves interpreting complex regulations while supporting business initiatives, managing risk without stifling innovation, and ensuring clear communication between legal and non-legal stakeholders. Collaborating across departments, such as compliance, finance, and executive leadership, is essential to anticipate potential legal issues and proactively address them, all while maintaining a strategic perspective that supports organizational growth.
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Director Legal Counsel

San Diego, CA • On-site


Qualcomm
Technology, Communication and Media • 10K+ employees

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Company rating: 8.8 out of 10

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49th of 246 rated software companies

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Job description

Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Legal Group, Legal Group > Legal Counsel
General Summary:
***Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible for a U.S. Government security clearance***
Qualcomm is looking for an attorney to join our Qualcomm Government Technologies (QGOV) legal team. The successful candidate will provide sophisticated legal advice and services on contractual and regulatory, cybersecurity, and commercial and technology-related issues that arise for a commercial company engaging with U.S. government and other government, international defense, and public safety customers. In this role, you will apply advanced knowledge of legal risk management, public-sector decision-making, and cross-functional legal coordination to develop practical solutions for senior leadership and business stakeholders.
Qualifications:
• 7+ years in practice with relevant experience.
• Demonstrated ability to advise senior leadership, make legally sound strategic recommendations, and coordinate across departments, agencies, or business teams.
• Experience with technology, cybersecurity, or national security related legal issues.
• Leadership experience directing legal strategy, managing matter teams or portfolios, developing training programs, or supervising significant legal processes.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Juris Doctorate degree or international equivalent.
• 5+ years of relevant experience as counsel at a law firm or in-house.
• Active bar license or other lawful ability to practice law in the state or jurisdiction where the employee will be located (for example, ability to gain admission as registered in house counsel).
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
• Drafts, negotiates, reviews, and revises complex legal documents, including proposals, agreements, and strategic legal memoranda.
• Applies advanced knowledge of legal risk, compliance standards, privacy, cybersecurity, national security, and technology-related issues to support strategic objectives.
• Reviews legal, factual, technical, policy, and operational information from multiple sources to troubleshoot complex matters, identify key issues, and recommend practical resolution options.
• Works with other Legal colleagues to direct legal strategy and decision-making across assigned portfolios, and collaborates across internal teams, departments and outside counsel to resolve complex legal issues.
• Develops training, best practices, and internal processes to strengthen legal judgment, and consistent execution across contracts and legal teams.
Level of Responsibility:
• Works independently with little supervision.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
• Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to make key decisions).
• Substantial creativity is needed to innovate new processes, procedures, or work products within guidelines or to achieve established objectives.
• Works on abstract problems in unique situations that require intricate analysis, and evaluation of ambiguous factors. Directs the resolution of highly complex, unusual, or abstract business problems across functional or organization lines. Through assessment of intangible variables, identifies, and evaluates fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for major functional areas.
• Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.
Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).
To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.
EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.
Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.
Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$165,600.00 - $248,400.00
The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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Qualcomm is enabling a world where everyone and everything can be intelligently connected. You interact with products and technologies made possible by Qualcomm every day, including 5G-enabled smartphones that double as pro-level cameras and gaming devices, smarter vehicles and cities, and the technology behind the smart, connected factories that manufactured your latest purchase. Our powerful connectivity solutions keep you connected—even in remote areas. Qualcomm 5G and AI innovations are the power behind the connected intelligent edge. You’ll find our technologies behind and inside the innovations that deliver significant value across multiple industries and to billions of people every day.

Industry

Technology, communication and media

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

San Diego, CA, US

Year founded

1985


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