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 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. Your impact will include:

• Support your legal peers and clients as an integral part of the Americas Sales Legal team.
• Serve as primary legal support to GES and USC business and account teams.
• Review, draft, and negotiate sales contracts (direct and partner-based).
• Serve as a trusted advisor to GES and USC sales leaders and other business functions on a range of legal and business issues.
• Provide guidance on ethics and compliance matters.
• Participate on global cross-functional teams working on process improvement initiatives.

Minimum qualifications include:

• 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.
• Complex contract negotiation and drafting skills.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Proven ability to negotiate and draft complex software and cloud agreements.
• Experience negotiating complex business transactions.
• CIPP/E certification is a plus.

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. 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.

The starting salary range 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, including 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. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.