Director, Commercial Legal

At Penguin Solutions (Nasdaq: PENG) – The AI Factory Platform Company – we’re building a team of innovators who thrive on collaboration, creativity, and the opportunity to help shape the future of AI. As part of the AI technology revolution, our teams design, build, deploy, and manage AI factories for enterprises, sovereign AI initiatives, and neocloud providers worldwide.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Penguin Solutions operates globally through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations. For nearly three decades, we have operated at the intersection of memory and AI/HPC infrastructure. That engineering expertise positions us to power the next generation of AI workloads, from training to inference and agentic AI at scale.

Penguin Solutions brings together differentiated infrastructure software, advanced memory, compute systems, end-to-end services, and industry-leading partner solutions in a full-stack AI factory platform designed to help customers deploy and scale AI workloads with speed and precision.

At Penguin Solutions, we value ideas over hierarchy and believe in servant leadership, where leaders enable teams to do their best work. We empower employees to take ownership, drive innovation, and grow through challenging work, continuous learning, and exposure to advanced AI tools and technologies. With flexibility where it matters and a strong focus on outcomes, Penguin Solutions is a place to do your best work, grow your career, and make a meaningful impact.

We are seeking a Director, Commercial Legal to serve as a key legal partner supporting high-impact, global commercial transactions across our AI infrastructure, memory, and advanced computing businesses. The level will depend on experience, but the mandate is clear: this person will be the day-to-day owner of the company's commercial legal function for large, complex transactions, with significant autonomy to shape strategy and priorities.

This is a position at the center of a rapidly scaling AI business where you will own and drive large, complex commercial transactions end-to-end, while managing a high-volume, diverse portfolio of commercial deals. Your work will span everything from routine vendor and procurement agreements to complex, high-value transactions that enable production-scale AI deployments for enterprise and next-generation customers.

You will work closely with sales, operations, supply chain, and product teams to structure, negotiate, and execute agreements that directly support Penguin’s strategic growth and customer expansion.

The ideal candidate brings a strong commercial foundation, thrives in a dynamic environment, and can translate legal risk into business velocity, while knowing when to escape novel or high-risk issues.

• Front-row seat to the AI infrastructure transformation from training to inference and enterprise deployment
• Direct impact on strategic, revenue-generating transactions
• Ownership of a broad, high-volume deal portfolio spanning routine agreements to strategic, novel transactions
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies (AI systems, memory architectures, data center infrastructure)
• High visibility across legal leadership and business teams
• Opportunity to help scale contracting frameworks for a rapidly growing global platform company

• Own large, complex commercial transactions end-to-end, from structuring through negotiation and execution, while independently managing a range of deal complexity from standard to highly customized, strategic transactions
• Lead drafting, review, and negotiation of simple to complex commercial agreements, including:
  • Enterprise customer agreements for AI infrastructure…