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SunPower’s legal team is looking for an experienced, creative, and energized attorney to advise our fast-moving team of product managers, engineers, and marketers on a variety of product development, consumer protection, privacy, regulatory, supply chain and intellectual property issues, and manage a team of lawyers and paralegals across product, supply chain, and intellectual property disciplines. This is a leadership role in a growing Legal department, supporting an expanding business. This role requires focus, drive, compassion, and thoughtfulness, and reports to the General Counsel. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on leadership with a focus on providing actionable and practical legal and business support and solutions to the Company
• As a member of the Legal Leadership team, support and develop a team of lawyers and paralegals, and work across the Legal team to develop and implement best practices
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including executive management, business leads, product managers, engineers, technical experts, and inventors
• Partner with internal clients effectively throughout the product development lifecycle, leading brainstorming and invention harvesting sessions, advising on new products and features, identifying applicable legal constraints and product risks, proposing solutions and mitigation measures that facilitate business objectives
• Proactively address and advise on product liability, reliability, and quality matters
• Work with and advise the supply chain teams on supply chain strategies that mitigate business, legal and financial risk
• Draft and negotiate commercial and intellectual property agreements affecting the company's products and services
• Lead SunPower’s legal IP strategy needs, priorities, and resources, including patent cost reduction, monetization, and licensing opportunities
• Support and develop a team of lawyers and paralegals

Other responsibilities

• Performs special projects and responsibilities assigned by the General Counsel

Required Qualifications

• J.D. and active member of the bar in good standing in any U.S. jurisdiction
• 14 or more years of experience
• OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Combination of law firm and in-house litigation experience
• Experience with trade compliance
• Strong foundation in drafting agreements and counseling on product and IP related issues, including relating to consumer protection, privacy, data protection, intellectual property protection and strategy, technology transactions and litigation
• Basic financial reporting capabilities and ability to manage to budget
• Experience and comfort working with senior executives
• Capacity to think strategically to identify issues and develop long-term solutions
• Ability to handle multiple assignments simultaneously and manage major projects to successful completion
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a strong customer-focus orientation
• Excellent presentation, facilitation, and project management skills, as well as the ability to navigate within a corporate environment and work with a variety of stakeholders
• Strong technology skills
• Organizational and management skills necessary for the development and implementation of procedures and guidelines

Equal Employment Opportunity
The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer and makes employment decisions, including but not limited to, hiring, firing, promotion, demotion, training, and/or compensation, on the basis of merit. Employment decisions are based on an individual’s qualifications as they relate to the job under consideration. The Company’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions, the actual sex of the individual, or the gender identity or gender expression), race, color, religion, including religious dress practices and religious grooming practices, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, familial status, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected veteran or military status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws, ordinances, or regulations. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company, including supervisors and co-workers.

EOE Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled

SunPower Supports EEO

Accommodation for Applicants to SunPower Corporation
SunPower Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, you may use the following alternative email address to contact us about your interest in employment at SunPower Corporation: jobs@sunpower.com. Please indicate in the subject that line of your email that you are requesting accommodation. Only candidates being considered for a position who require an accommodation will receive a follow-up response.

NOTICE TO ALL APPLICANTS AND EMPLOYEES

Availability of Affirmative Action Plan for Review

SunPower is a federal government contractor. As a part of the Company’s obligations under law, it must develop a written Affirmative Action Program (AAP) for the Disabled, Recently Separated Veterans, Armed Forces Service Medal Veterans, Disabled Veterans and Active Duty Wartime Or Campaign Badge Veterans and for Women and Minorities as specified by law. Non-confidential and non-proprietary aspects of the AAP are available for inspection by applicants and employees, consistent with applicable law, which will be made available during office hours by contacting the EEO Officer.