Principal Corporate Counsel Products jobs at Cisco in United States, Cary

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

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cisco Product Legal team directly supporting the Splunk Business Unit. We are seeking a great teammate, excited to join a highly collaborative and collegial product counsel team, and eager to dive into a wide variety of work to help drive the business forward. We’re looking for a curious, motivated self-starter who can:

• Develop an understanding of Splunk’s observability products and the unique, relevant legal challenges specific to those products.
• Cultivate close working relationships with the sales, engineering, product management, business development, operations, finance, and legal teams bringing our products to market.
• Partner closely with legal teams supporting both supply chain and sales to negotiate complex commercial agreements with suppliers, partners, and customers.
• Provide tactical guidance to product management and engineering teams on new and existing services, products, and features throughout the entire product lifecycle.
• Provide expertise on privacy and data protection issues on a global basis.
• Be adept at making sound legal judgments quickly to facilitate agile business execution.
• Manage legal requests from multiple internal clients, while prioritizing key transactions.
• Respond promptly and professionally to requests from internal clients.
• Break down complex legal and product issues and communicate them clearly and effectively in plain English.
• Assist in the continuous improvement of standard form agreements and legal playbooks.
• Be a great teammate, willing to pitch in and assist wherever needed.
• Perform other legal and business-related duties as needed to support the success of the Splunk business.

• Bar membership in a U.S. jurisdiction, with good standing and at least 7 years of legal experience.
• Experience (minimum of 3 years) in in-house legal roles, with a demonstrated track record of advising senior leadership in product and engineering.
• Extensive experience advising on product development, engineering innovation, and go-to-market strategies, including practical, business oriented legal guidance throughout the product lifecycle.
• Strong expertise in intellectual property, advanced software licensing frameworks, and evolving data protection laws, with experience advising on their application in complex technical environments.
• Strong leadership abilities, with a proven capability to drive cross-functional collaboration, mentor team members, and contribute to fostering a high-performing and inclusive team culture.

• Demonstrated mastery in technology transactions, including drafting, negotiating, and closing complex commercial agreements such as SaaS contracts, enterprise licensing deals, and global data processing agreements.
• Advanced knowledge of and practical expertise with global privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA) and their implications for technology businesses, including experience developing compliance strategies for emerging technologies.
• Proven track record of delivering results in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment, with the ability to simultaneously lead multiple high-priority projects to successful completion.

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

About Corporate Security

Your Impact

The Systems and Technical Lead will have an impact in multiple areas listed below.

• You will be a key member of our team that defines, designs, and builds dynamic and futuristic technology solutions in the physical security space that protect our most valuable assets (People).
• Analyze business needs, translate them into technical specifications, and build architectural designs for software, hardware, or infrastructure.
• Be the link between Corporate Security objectives and technical execution, ensuring that technology solutions effectively support the organization's goals.
• You will have the opportunity to be engaged on some of the best in the industry large enterprise class platforms and develop solutions in collaboration using AI.
• Opportunities to work on Cisco’s Corporate Security systems – Critical Event Management, Systems that leverage AI, Analytics platforms, Software Integrations, Visitor Management and other components.

Job Responsibilities

• Technology Development and Testing: Evaluate, develop, and test new physical security technologies, participating in proof-of-concept testing to identify deployment suitability.
• Lead or participate in design sessions with the software development team to ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Responsible for solution based results, working with end users to clearly understand the needs and articulate solution approach and coordinate or deliver training.
• Collaborate with external vendors to accomplish specific tasks.
• SME in 3rd-party physical security software solutions as needed
• Keep Innovation at the front while solving current gaps

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Physical Security Technology experience in Access control & video surveillance, Threat detection and alarm monitoring, Critical Event Management platforms, Visitor management systems.
• 5+ years of Software Development experience with a good understanding of data integrations and analytics.
• Demonstrable understanding of Physical Security Technology and IT infrastructure requirements
• Experience with architectural design , network devices VLANs, DHCP, when designing security systems.
• 5+ years of providing technical leadership throughout the development lifecycle , ensuring that the solution is built according to the defined architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical Skills:Expertise with physical security technologies (e.g., Lenel, Ambient AI), Critical Event Management and Mass Communication platforms (e.g., Everbridge, Alert Media, DataMinr), Software Development (Java, JavaScript, Oracle etc.,)
• Collaborative Engagement:Work with Facilities, Security, IT teams, and integrators to support project timelines and execution.
• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills:Ability to identify and resolve security system issues in a timely manner, analyze security data, identify trends and develop effective solutions.
• Communication and Emotional Intelligence:Ability to connect with various collaborators, users, management, and vendors efficiently.
• Organization Skills: Be able to multi-task, prioritize efficiently, and complete tasks on time.

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.

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.

Security research including development of tools for vulnerability discovery, analysis, and mitigation. Development of fuzzers and static analysis tools to identify new vulnerabilities in software. Development of static and run-time analysis tools to figure out root cause and input conditions related to a vulnerability. Vulnerability triage and proof of concept exploit development to support the creation of detection content. Additional responsibilities include helping users and other analysts with setup, installation, and usage of the vulnerability research tools and demonstrating leadership in the security community through publishing open-source tools, papers, presentations, and blog posts

• Perform security analysis to discover new vulnerabilities in software and/or embedded systems.
• Create tools for the discovery and triage of vulnerabilities.
• Write detailed technical advisories on new vulnerabilities.
• Develop proof of concept exploits for testing IPS and IDS effectiveness.
• Perform patch analysis to find and trigger vulnerabilities.
• Reverse engineer binary applications, protocols, and formats.
• Analyze zero-day vulnerabilities and emerging security threats and technologies.
• Demonstrate leadership within the security community.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cyber Security, or other tech-related degree
• 3+ years of experience in vulnerability research or a closely related area, e.g. exploit, fuzzing or mitigation development
• 3+ years’ experience with C/C++, and a scripting language (e.g., Python), and assembly (e.g., x86/x64, ARM, etc.)

• Experience with binary auditing and reverse engineering, and with related tools such as IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, Ghidra, etc. and with plugin development.
• Experience with common vulnerabilities and methods of exploitation, such as memory corruption, web application exploitation, file format vulnerabilities, protocol-based weaknesses, etc.
• Published technical contributions to the security community (e.g. CVEs, security advisories, blog posts (0-day/n-day analysis), open source contributions, academic publications, etc.)
• Candidates with experience in vulnerability research in industrial control systems are encouraged to apply
• Knowledge of common file format and network protocol structures.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision and to tackle additional tasks as the need arises.

The application window has been extended and is expected to close on: May 31, 2025.

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

In this role, you will deliver excellent legal support to Splunk – a 4.3B+/year sales organization. You will support the Splunk sales team, ensuring alignment between the business and Legal. Your role will involve supporting deals, resolving critical issues, negotiating with sometimes complicated customers. You will be accountable for overall quality of your Legal work product and ensuring the needs of the business are appropriately balanced against the risk to Cisco.

You will also:

• Build strong internal and external relationships while balancing the needs in Splunk’s sales theater with Cisco's global strategy and priorities;
• Provide deep knowledge of relevant aspects of U.S. laws concerning AI, data privacy/governance, and cybersecurity;
• Negotiate outbound product, software license, sales channel and strategic alliance sales, and SaaS contracts;
• Anticipate changes to relevant laws impacting Cisco's privacy program and security posture and its customers;
• Support the shaping of sophisticated transactions, including developing strategic relationships;
• Provide improvement of standard form agreements, playbooks, contract templates, and legal processes;
• Effectively advise and educate on and assist in the enforcement of Cisco's policies and compliance programs;
• Implement pivotal projects that advance Cisco's business including Cisco's priorities and initiatives.

• Bar admission in any jurisdiction with good standing with a minimum of 8+ years of proven experience with identifying and supporting issues identified by selling product, services and SaaS contracting contexts.
• In depth knowledge of privacy, cybersecurity, and AI-related laws, regulations and guidelines (Minimum of 3+ years with at least one CIPP-certification).
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to effectively communicate and manage internal stakeholders and clients with minimal direction.
• Ability to draft and negotiate a variety of legal documents, with a focus on data security and privacy agreements.

• Excellent business judgment, advocating for acceptable legal risk to enable business outcomes and in knowing when and how to escalate issues to the appropriate level and propose solutions.
• Ability to operate optimally in a team environment and pursue common goals.
• Commitment to deliver exceptional customer service to internal clients and external customers, including anticipating and responding to customer/client requirements promptly and consistently meeting commitments and deadlines.
• Proven ability to be a change agent and readily embrace new and innovative approaches.