Principal Corporate Counsel: Sales Legal (hybrid)

Join The Cisco Legal Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cisco legal team directly supporting the Americas Sales Legal business. You will be a member of Cisco's Americas Sales Legal team supporting the Global Enterprise Segment (GES) and U.S. Commercial (USC) segment, representing over $16 billion in annual sales.

Your Impact

You will support GES and USC sales teams ensuring alignment between the business teams and Sales Legal team. Your role will involve supporting deals, resolving critical issues, and negotiating complex customer negotiations. You will be accountable for overall quality of your work and ensuring the needs of the business teams are appropriately balanced against the risk to Cisco. Tasks include:

• Supporting your legal peers and clients as an integral part of the Americas Sales Legal team.
• Serving as primary legal support to GES and USC business and account teams.
• Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating sales contracts (direct and partner-based).
• Serving as a trusted advisor to GES and USC sales leaders and other business functions on a range of legal and business issues.
• Providing guidance on ethics and compliance matters.
• Participating on global cross-functional teams working on process improvement initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

Bar admission in any jurisdiction with good standing and 8+ years of relevant law firm and/or in-house experience. Legal experience in software and cloud service industries. Detailed knowledge of commercial, contract and business law. Knowledge of intellectual property and data protection laws. Complex contract negotiation and drafting skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Proven ability to negotiate and draft complex software and cloud agreements. Experience negotiating complex business transactions, preferably in a high-pressure, quarter driven technology sales environment. CIPP/E certification is a plus.

Why Cisco?

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. 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.

Message to Applicants Applying to Work in the U.S. and/or Canada

The starting salary range posted for this position is $189,200.00 to $240,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time. U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees; 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco; Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year; Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program; 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next; Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members; Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies. Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.