Cisco Corporate Counsel 

Canada, Ontario, Toronto 

754574402

• Provide transactional legal support to the Canadian sales teams, including drafting and negotiating contracts for direct and channel sales such as software license, product and service purchase agreements, cloud agreement, XaaS agreements, channel and alliance agreements.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the sales team and other supporting functions by understanding Cisco’s strategy and priorities.
• Analyze and help to resolve business and legal issues through clear, practical legal guidance.
• Participate in key global initiatives with cross-functional legal teams.
• Ensure Compliance and Data Privacy policies and legal requirements.

• Adaptability. Comfortable working in a dynamic environment and demonstrate the ability to optimally handle frequent changes in priorities, deadlines, and workload.
• Business & Legal Knowledge . You have in-depth knowledge of IT commercial and contract law, and some familiarity with intellectual property, privacy and data protection law. You understand contracting principles and their impact on the business and are able to find creative solutions to complex issues.
• Communication and Influence. You have strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate concisely (in writing and verbally) complex legal and business issues. You anticipate and respond to customer/client requirements promptly.
• Continuous Learning . You have a natural curiosity and hunger to learn and to apply that learning to specific tasks to improve your work and the work of others around you.
• Ability to Positively Disrupt. You won’t suffer in silence in the face of outdated methodologies, broken processes or inefficient ways of doing things. Instead, you are a change agent who can clearly articulate these issues and their repercussions in a constructive manner and take full ownership of identifying and implementing better, more innovative processes. You have a creative approach with the ability to use design thinking and other tools to innovate.
• Critical Thinking. You have a track record of conducting a careful and thoughtful analysis of complex legal and business agreements and the ability to weigh and articulate the risk and reward of various scenarios in a business-friendly manner.
• Organizational Abilities. You have well-developed organizational and prioritization abilities allowing for the smooth and simultaneous management of multiple projects with complex and demanding deadlines.
• Standout Colleague. You are willing to collaborate and share knowledge, acting in a responsive and proactive manner. You operate well in a team environment and positively impact team members.

Our Minimum Qualifications for this role:

• Bar admission in Canada with a minimum of 5+ years of proven experience, working and supporting transactional legal matters, preferably in a multinational organization and/or a technology company.
• Negotiate to a specific goal with little supervision.
• Excellent business judgment, advocating for acceptable legal risk to enable business outcomes.
• Customer and client-centric approach, demonstrating respect and a positive attitude under all circumstances.
• Operate efficiently and optimally in an environment heavily dependent on Cisco and third-party tools and communications systems, including high proficiency in and effective use of basic desktop applications.
• Proficiency in both English and French (preferred)
• Preferred location: Toronto or Montreal

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).