# Legal Counsel

**Company**: Cisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $192,300.00 - $243,900.00
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Cisco's Privacy and Data Regulatory Legal team as a Legal Counsel. You will advise the business on data governance, data risk management, and data regulatory readiness. The team helps shape and enable Cisco's global privacy and data governance compliance strategy.

Responsibilities:

- Own the interpretation and provide specialized, actionable data advice on domestic and international laws and regulations concerning privacy, data protection, and AI governance.

- Advise on enterprise data governance frameworks, standards, and controls.

- Counsel stakeholders on data classification, data inventories, data stewardship, data minimization, records retention, and defensible deletion.

- Establish legal standards for data sourcing, data use, data sharing, data aggregation, deidentification, anonymization, and synthetic data initiatives.

- Define governance requirements for critical data stewardship and accountability structures across the company.

- Review and draft data processing agreements, data sharing agreements, AI-related contractual provisions, and privacy and security terms.

- Partner with product, engineering, security, and compliance teams to operationalize governance requirements.

- Develop guidelines and criteria for assessing legal risks associated with new uses of data in connection with analytics, AI, agents, and machine learning.

- Advise leadership on data-related risk, opportunity, and strategic data utilization initiatives.

- Develop data policies, training, and governance guidance.

- Lead responses to regulatory inquiries, audits, investigations, and litigation readiness.

- Work with Government Affairs to influence data legislation, standards, and frameworks.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Juris Doctor and active bar membership.

- 8+ years of legal experience.

- Deep expertise in privacy, cybersecurity, data governance, or technology transactions.

- Experience with global privacy and data laws, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and emerging AI regulations.

- Large technology company, cloud company, telecom, SaaS, or cybersecurity business.

- Experience leading cross-functional, enterprise-wide governance programs in a multinational technology company.

- Familiarity with data and AI governance and responsible data use programs.

- Professional Certification in Privacy, AI such as IAPP CIPP/US, AIG, CIPE.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.

- Paid parental leave.

- Short and long-term disability coverage.

- Basic life insurance.

- Paid time away, including 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.

Salary Range: $192,300.00 - $243,900.00

## Skills

### Required
- Juris Doctor
- active bar membership
- privacy
- cybersecurity
- data governance
- technology transactions
- GDPR
- CCPA/CPRA
- AI regulations

### Nice to have
- IAPP CIPP/US
- AIG
- CIPE
- data and AI governance
- responsible data use programs

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