Principal Corporate Counsel: Product Legal

7 days ago

San Jose, United States Cisco Systems, Inc. Full time
Principal Corporate Counsel: Product Legal

Cisco, the world's leading networking, communications and security company, is on a mission to empower an inclusive future for everyone. We're proud to consistently be recognized as one of the best places in the world to work by Fortune, and we are looking for outstanding people to join our legal team.


What You'll Do

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cisco legal team directly supporting the Cisco Networking Team, which includes some of Cisco's largest product lines most strategic development areas. We're looking for a curious, motivated self-starter who can:

  1. Develop an understanding of Cisco's core networking products and the unique, relevant legal challenges specific to those products
  2. Cultivate close working relationships with the sales, engineering, product management, business development, operations, finance, and legal teams bringing our products to market
  3. Partner closely with legal teams supporting both supply chain and sales to negotiate complex commercial agreements with suppliers, partners, and customers
  4. Be knowledgeable on issues related to global privacy, data protection, lawful intercept and data localization/sovereignty
  5. Become a strategic business advisor to the Business Unit, able to make sound legal judgments to guide the Business Unit's go-to-market strategies
  6. Develop strong understanding of the product portfolio and its specific legal needs
  7. Communicate legal issues in plain-English
  8. Be a phenomenal teammate, willing to pitch in and assist wherever needed
  9. Provide practical guidance to product management and engineering teams on new and existing services, products, and features throughout the entire product lifecycle

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bar admission in any jurisdiction with good standing, with a minimum of 7+ years of relevant experience (the ideal candidate will have both law firm and in-house experience).

Desired Skills and Characteristics

  • Superior business judgment, advocating for acceptable legal risk to enable business outcomes
  • Customer and client-centric approach, demonstrating respect and a positive attitude
  • At ease with complexity and an intellectual curiosity about all aspects of the business
  • Strong contract negotiation and drafting skills, with the ability to discuss complex issues in a clear and simple manner both in writing and orally
  • Focused attention to detail and ability to work independently
  • Strong organizational and interpersonal skills and desire to make legal processes more efficient
  • Wanting to contribute to a team culture passionate about shared success
  • Proven knowledge of software licensing, intellectual property, and marketing
  • Experience and familiarity with lawful intercept, data localization and data sovereignty laws
  • Experience and familiarity with data privacy and cybersecurity laws and regulations such as GDPR and CCPA, as well as as-a-service offerings
  • External privacy and/or security certifications (e.g., CIPP/E, CISSP) is a plus

Our Legal Department

We are a community of over 500+ professionals in Legal and Compliance committed to driving Cisco's success and maintaining a fun, diverse and cohesive working environment. We think of ourselves as leaders within the company, demonstrating a customer centric, open, and agile approach to helping Cisco continuously evolve its business and lead the industry. We are in over 25 countries, supporting each other as one team and are proud of the many ways we give back to our communities.

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We're the Internet's optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it's not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We're helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We're helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other's backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we're committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us #WeAreCisco

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