Principle Corporate Counsel: Product Legal

The application window is expected to close on: 7/8/2025

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Cisco Legal is searching for a Principal Corporate Counsel to join our Data Center, Internet, and Cloud Infrastructure Legal team. The primary focus of the role is supporting the data center compute team, a business unit that generates more than $2.5 billion in annual revenue based on the UCS server portfolio and the Intersight Platform cloud service. The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence has supercharged the business, and you will support Cisco's GPU-bearing servers, Nexus Hyperfabric AI, and relationships with key vendor partners in the chip manufacturing and storage industries. This person will also help support Cisco's development of network as a service offers. The role includes cross-functional engagement with our Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Support, and Operations teams.

You are phenomenal at communicating succinct legal advice to executives and engineers alike, while balancing reasonable legal risk to enable important business outcomes. You have a curiosity about, and a passion for, both technology and the legal craft and are building extraordinary drafting and counseling skills. You are organized, dependable, and responsive (while we typically have no need to work nights or weekends, we want you to be open to it if the business teams need your support.)

How You'll Contribute:

• Develop detailed knowledge of the data center compute products, business processes, people and go-to-market strategies around the world to support all stages of the product lifecycle.
• Dive into privacy, regulatory, business and operational challenges for a growing worldwide business
• Collaborate with our Sales and Channel teams, both Legal and account executives, across all stages of the customer and partner sales motion
• Establish relationships throughout the Cisco organization and Cisco Legal team
• Learn to make fast, smart legal judgments to help our business continue to scale

• J.D. or equivalent, licensed to practice law, and 7+ of relevant legal experience, in-house and/or law firm experience, with at least 2 years of in-house experience.
• Background in technology law (e.g., licensing, drafting, product development, negotiations, regulatory guidance, etc.)
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and handle simultaneous projects for multiple businesses under deadline pressure.
• Ability to understand complex contractual, business, and legal issues, assess risk, and provide concise, plain English, business-focused legal advice.
• Experience with privacy and data protection and use issues.

• Practical business judgment and ability to balance legal requirements and business risk along with the ability to find common ground and be collaborative under pressure
• Experience supporting the development and sale of technology products and services on an international scale, including dealing with tax, regulatory, engineering, intellectual property, etc.
• Capability to quickly absorb, evaluate, and respond to novel issues and craft creative solutions
• Strategic thinker and easily adapt to differing needs and interests of business stakeholders and Cisco's customers.

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put - we power the future.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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