Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Legal Group, Legal Group > Legal Counsel

General Summary:

Responsible for providing advice and services on transactional legal matters, utilizing knowledge of law, legal principles, common practice, and policies related to one’s practice area and in support of QCT’s business units and strategies. Maintains awareness of legal risks and compliance standards. Analyzes potential business offers/proposals and drafts, negotiates, and reviews agreements and policies to support legal and BU needs. Collaborates across departments and organizations to gather information and develop legal solutions and strategy in support of the business needs.

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 to practice law in the state or jurisdiction where the employee will be practicing (or ability to obtain upon hiring).

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5-7+ years in practice with relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience as counsel at a law firm or in-house with a focus on relevant specialty (e.g., technology, real estate).
• Extensive drafting and negotiating experience.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Applies highly advanced knowledge of law, legal principles, and common practice to develop legal solutions and address legal issues.
• Implements legal strategy, and seeks out, understands, and applies best practices to support corporate objectives.
• Drafts, negotiates, and reviews complex documents (e.g., guidelines, agreements, and/or policies).
• Independently provides advice and support on moderately complex legal matters. Serves as a legal resource within a department.
• Applies advanced knowledge of legal risks, policies, and compliance requirements to support a business or technology area.
• Reviews legal and policy information from a variety of sources in order to troubleshoot complex or novel legal issues and provides solutions.
• Seeks information within and across departments to identify fundamental patterns/trends.
• Makes decisions that have implications across teams. Decisions reflect broad knowledge of functional areas and strategies.

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.
• Works within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department.
• 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.
• Participates in strategic planning.

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 .

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