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 the overall quality of your work and ensuring the needs of the business teams are appropriately balanced against the risk to Cisco.

Your responsibilities 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.

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.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.