Lattice Overview

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.

Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

Job Description:

LEGAL COUNSEL – GLOBAL OPERATIONS

Corporate & Governance | Legal

What Will You Get to Do?

Are you a practical, business-minded attorney who enjoys helping global organizations scale across borders? Do you thrive at the intersection of global corporate governance, business operations, employment law, and compliance?

As Legal Counsel – Global Operations, you will play a key role in supporting the legal infrastructure that enables Lattice Semiconductor to operate effectively across a growing global footprint. As Lattice grows, it's workforce, geographic reach, and operational complexity have expanded significantly, particularly throughout Asia-Pacific.

In this role, based in India, you will support a broad range of legal matters spanning subsidiary governance, compliance, global operations, and employment and HR support. You will support operations broadly – general corporate, human resources, finance, tax, compliance, and business leaders worldwide to help ensure Lattice can operate efficiently while appropriately managing legal and compliance risks.

The successful candidate will join Lattice's Legal Department, operating within its Corporate & Governance legal team, while partnering with colleagues across the broader Legal team.

This position offers significant exposure across both the Legal Department and the broader business. This is a highly collaborative, business-facing role that provides a unique opportunity to influence decision-making, support strategic initiatives, and help shape the legal infrastructure of a growing global public company.

You're Good At – The Ideal Candidate Has Extensive Experience With the Following:

Corporate Governance and Subsidiary Management: Supporting global subsidiary governance activities, including board and shareholder approvals, maintenance of corporate records, director and officer appointments, powers of attorney, statutory filings, and other legal entity management responsibilities across multiple jurisdictions;

Cross-Border Business Operations: Supporting cross-border operational matters impacting employees and business operations throughout the world, including international mobility initiatives, business travel issues, remote work arrangements, global workforce expansion efforts, and more;

Global Employment and Human Resources Support: Supporting a broad range of employment-related matters, including local law related matters for employment agreements, employee onboarding, workplace accommodations, investigations, leaves of absence, workforce restructurings, employee separations, and other HR-related legal issues;

Global Law Coordination: Coordinating with outside counsel across multiple jurisdictions; obtaining, interpreting, and implementing local law advice; and translating complex legal requirements into practical recommendations for business stakeholders;

Compliance and Policy Support: Providing day-to-day legal support relating to anti-corruption, competition law, privacy, records management, internal policies, investigations, compliance reviews, and corporate governance matters;

Post-Acquisition Integration and Organizational Growth: Supporting integration activities, workforce scaling initiatives, and other strategic projects associated with the continued growth and evolution of the company following acquisitions and global expansion efforts;

Process Development and Legal Operations: Building scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, and governance frameworks; improving legal operational efficiency; and partnering with internal stakeholders to develop practical solutions that support business objectives while appropriately managing risk;

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working effectively across Human Resources, Finance, Tax, Export Compliance, Internal Audit, Security, and business teams to provide timely, practical, and business-focused legal advice on a broad range of operational matters.

General Legal Support: Supporting other legal matters, projects, and responsibilities as assigned.

You Have:

• Applicable education and license to practice law;
• Approximately 5–8 years of experience at a law firm and/or as in-house counsel supporting multinational organizations;
• Strong understanding of corporate governance, compliance, and operational legal support functions, including subsidiary governance, corporate secretarial matters, and legal entity management;
• Experience managing outside counsel and coordinating legal advice across multiple jurisdictions;
• Significant experience supporting employment law matters, HR-related issues, and global workforce management activities;
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills;
• Strong project management, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills;
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities across a fast-paced global environment;
• Sound business judgment and the ability to provide practical, solution-oriented legal advice;
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams across multiple time zones.

Nice to Have:

• Experience supporting a U.S.-listed public company or advising multinational public-company clients;
• Experience supporting semiconductor, technology, software, electronics, manufacturing, or engineering-focused organizations;
• Experience supporting import/export compliance, sanctions compliance, or other international regulatory matters;
• Experience supporting post-acquisition integration activities, international workforce expansion, or other large-scale organizational growth initiatives;
• Prior in-house legal experience within a multinational company.

Who Are We?

At Lattice Semiconductor, we develop technologies that we monetize through differentiated programmable logic semiconductor products, system solutions, design services, and licenses. We are the low power programmable leader, solving customer problems across the network from the Edge to the Cloud in growing communications, computing, industrial, automotive, and consumer markets.

Following the acquisition of AMI, Lattice has expanded its global footprint, engineering capabilities, and customer reach, creating exciting opportunities to help shape the next chapter of the company's growth. Our employees span multiple continents and support a diverse range of technologies, markets, and customers worldwide.

Join Team Lattice—and help us build the legal and operational foundation that supports a smart, secure, and connected world. Together, we enable what's next.

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Additional Information:

This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in:

India

Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry. Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry.

Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions. Our global workforce, some 1,000 strong, shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win. For more information about how our FPGA, CPLD and programmable power management devices help our customers unlock their innovation, visit www.latticesemi.com. You can also follow us via Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace. Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.