Cisco Senior Corporate Counsel Product Legal 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

351737010

The application window is expected to close on: 3/5/2025

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.

The Cisco Product Legal Team is looking for an experienced, motivated, “tech-enthusiast” attorney to serve as a premier legal advisor and primary business partner to the Splunk AI team. You will work closely with key internal legal, business and technology partners on various strategic and day-to-day legal matters relating to the development and release of Splunk offerings. You will support the introduction of new solutions, help ensure production readiness, build scalable compliance strategies, and address all requirements. You will drive consensus building across legal partners to deliver aligned legal counsel across multifaceted and complex legal issues.

To succeed in this role, you will need to possess excellent critical thinking skills, business judgment, executive presence, and proven leadership skills; maintain a strong work ethic and a high degree of accountability and follow up; and have the ability to use business context to generate pragmatic and effective legal solutions to achieve business objectives while mitigating risks. You should be highly self-motivated and able to work independently, collaboratively, and flexibly in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment; and adapt your approach and demeanor to match shifting demands of different situations. Success requires self-motivation, inquisitiveness, confidence, diligence and a passion to learn about new technologies and to pave ways in unchartered territories. Responsibilities include:

• Supporting product development, readiness and releases by reviewing product release checklists for issues related to intellectual property, open source, data privacy & security, marketing, competition, payment, and other legal and regulatory issues, with a focus on AI/ML legal issues
• Building a trusted advisor relationship with senior managers and leaders across the organization
• Performing due diligence to help ensure compliance with third-party agreements, open source licenses, security attestations and applicable certifications and government regulations
• Developing positive, strong, and cohesive relationships with cross-functional partners across Splunk to optimally deliver on sophisticated tasks and provide solutions to mitigate legal risks;
• Understanding technical lingo and concepts as well as be fluent in enterprise software development methods and business models
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating technology and partnership agreements, including EULAs, Terms of Service, inbound/OEM license agreements, MSP/ISV agreements, partner interoperability agreements, strategic alliance agreements, and consulting and development agreements.

• JD degree from ABA accredited university and in good standing of the Bar with 8+ years of experience providing legal support to technology businesses at both a well-regarded law firm and corporate legal department
• Proven experience in the software/SaaS industry with strong understanding of cloud service offerings, including managed service offerings and multi-tenant SaaS architecture as well as on-prem and hybrid offerings
• Expertise in intellectual property, open source issues, data privacy, and information and product security
• A keen interest in AI technology and familiarity with current AI/ML policy and regulation and the ability to keep up to speed where the technological, legal, and regulatory landscape is fast moving

• Experience working on AI-powered products or services in a legal counseling capacity.
• Experience working with software developers and product managers to guide compliance and resolve complicated issues in creative and effective ways
• Experience navigating complex issues, and driving high-impact projects, in a large cross-functional environment