Commercial Counsel

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Lumentum is seeking a highly motivated Commercial Counsel to join its Commercial Legal Team. This position is based in our Greensboro, North Carolina office and is an onsite role. This attorney will serve as a strategic legal advisor supporting high-value commercial transactions across our global business. The role offers the opportunity to partner closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to structure, negotiate, and execute sophisticated commercial arrangements that support Lumentum's industry-leading photonics and networking technologies. The successful candidate will lead complex, high-value commercial and supply chain transactions while serving as a trusted strategic advisor to business leaders across the company. The ideal candidate combines exceptional legal drafting and negotiation skills with sound business judgment and a practical, solution-oriented approach.

What You'll Do

• Lead the drafting, negotiation, and execution of complex domestic and international commercial transactions with customers, suppliers, manufacturers, and strategic partners.
• Negotiate strategic customer and supplier agreements, long-term supply and capacity reservation agreements, manufacturing, OEM, EMS, procurement, sourcing, development, distribution, reseller, services, and other commercial agreements.
• Provide strategic legal guidance from deal structuring through negotiation, execution, implementation, and post-closing support.
• Partner directly with senior leaders across Sales, Global Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, Finance, Product Management, Engineering, and Executive Leadership.
• Advise on forecasting, supply commitments, pricing, allocation, manufacturing capacity, warranties, indemnification, limitation of liability, intellectual property, and dispute resolution.
• Develop practical, business-oriented solutions that appropriately balance legal risk and commercial objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement through contract templates, negotiation playbooks, AI-enabled legal workflows, and scalable legal processes.

What Success Looks Like

• Serve as the primary legal advisor on commercial and strategic sales and supply chain transactions.
• Build trusted relationships with business leaders and become a go-to legal advisor for strategic commercial matters.
• Negotiate sophisticated agreements that enable business growth while appropriately managing legal and commercial risk.
• Help modernize the Commercial Legal function through process improvements, knowledge management, and AI-enabled legal tools.
• Deliver practical, timely legal advice that supports the company's business objectives while maintaining a strong risk management mindset.

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• 5–8 years of relevant legal experience, including experience at a nationally recognized law firm and, preferably, in-house with a technology, semiconductor, manufacturing, or industrial company.
• Significant experience independently negotiating sophisticated commercial transactions.
• Demonstrated ability to advise senior business leaders and influence business decisions through practical legal counsel.
• Strong understanding of commercial contracting principles.
• Exceptional drafting, negotiation, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple complex transactions simultaneously while maintaining excellent client service.
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate legal concepts into practical business advice.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting semiconductor, electronics, manufacturing, networking, telecommunications, or other advanced technology businesses.
• Experience negotiating long-term supply, manufacturing, procurement, or strategic sourcing agreements.
• Familiarity with international commercial transactions and cross-border contracting.
• Experience improving legal operations through automation, AI tools, contract lifecycle management systems, or process optimization.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Lumentum is illuminating the networks of tomorrow with advanced photonic technologies that enable AI, data centers, telecom, industrial, and sensing applications. As AI accelerates the global demand for bandwidth and energy efficiency, we deliver the building blocks that keep data moving reliably, efficiently, and at massive scale. Our optical products support AI and compute infrastructure, cloud and DCI environments, metro and long-haul networks, while our lasers drive breakthroughs in precision manufacturing and sensing. For nearly five decades, Lumentum has been at the intersection of light and innovation. What began as a vision with JDS Uniphase to harness the power of photonics has evolved into a global force driving the communication infrastructure of tomorrow. At Lumentum, we’re building more than a business—we’re building a team of passionate innovators whose drive to collaborate, create, and connect the world fuels everything we do. We are part of the AI technology revolution and we are illuminating the path forward. Headquartered in San Jose, California, we operate worldwide through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations.