Senior Director, Associate General Counsel: Product Legal, Optics, and Silicon
4 weeks ago
Application Window is Expected to close on 11/4/2024
What You'll Do
You will have lead responsibility for supporting Cisco's optics and silicon components businesses, including managing a Legal team and advising business executive partners for Cisco's routing and switching hardware engineering and go-to-market teams.
We are looking for a highly motivated, solution driven and tech-savvy people leader who is excited about working in a dynamic environment and who will:
- Develop deep knowledge of Cisco's hardware and Silicon One business, processes, and go-to-market strategies.
- Bring subject matter expertise in component/silicon hardware go-to market, IP protection strategies, and hardware industry regulation.
- Develop close working relationships with the sales, engineering, operations, and finance teams building and bringing products to market.
- Provide legal advice across sales transactions, intellectual property, market access and regulatory issues.
- Adeptly assess and balance legal risk while enabling business outcomes through pragmatic guidance.
- Manage, energize, and empower a dedicated Legal team.
- Develop and refine legal strategy for a growing business in collaboration with other Legal team members and business executives.
- Be a connecting force across cross-functional teams.
- Lead with problem solving, curiosity, drive, and thoughtfulness.
Who You Are
You must have excellent legal and business judgment, demonstrated people leadership capabilities, strong critical thinking and communication (written and verbal) skills, and a proven work ethic. You should be able to work directly with executives and early in career team members alike, be self-directed, in addition to collaborative and flexible with the ability to thrive in a collegial, fast-paced environment. You must be able to develop and support a dynamic legal strategy for Cisco's optics and silicon component businesses, taking into account legal and business considerations and market conditions. You must problem solve with speed, simplicity and organization and lead with compassion and sound judgment. Advanced executive engagement, social skills, and influencing abilities are a must. Success requires confidence, rigor, diligence and a passion to learn and contribute to the team and the business.
Your Minimum Qualifications:
- Bar admission in any jurisdiction with good standing, with a minimum of 12+ years of relevant experience at a law firm and/or in-house (the ideal candidate will have both law firm and in-house experience.)
- Legal experience in the computer or networking hardware industry. A background in semi-conductors is preferred.
- Extensive experience in building, developing, and motivating high functioning teams, including in a hybrid world.
- Solid knowledge of intellectual property and product development issues, with go to market experience.
Preferred Characteristics/Skills:
- Outstanding contract negotiation and drafting skills, including extensive experience negotiating complex licensing agreements and working with large customers and strategic partners.
- Tight-knit collaboration skills for close partnerships with business, technical, and Legal team members.
- Ability to understand and synthesize complex issues, assess legal and business risk, and provide concise, plain English, business-focused advice.
- Ability to build credibility, advocate, influence, and become a trusted adviser to the business and Legal team members.
- Business-centric approach to handling complex legal issues, while demonstrating grace and a positive attitude.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize, lead and deliver on simultaneous projects/deliverables under deadline pressure.
- Drive and commitment to supply to talent development, legal strategy, and cross-functional initiatives across the Legal organization.
- Humility and a sense of humor.
Our Legal Department
We are a team of 500+ Legal and Compliance professionals in 25+ countries committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment as we work together to drive Cisco's success. We serve as trusted advisors to the business - problem solving, navigating complexities, and enabling transformation along the way. We use technology to make life easier - leveraging Cisco's innovative networking and collaboration tools to enable flexible, hybrid work. And we adopt the responsibility to be a force for good - donating our time and expertise through pro bono and community impact initiatives.
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. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you
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