# Director, Associate General Counsel for Cisco’s Security Business Group (SBG)

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: RTP, North Carolina
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $239,700.00 to $303,800.00
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a strategic and technology-focused attorney to serve as Director, Associate General Counsel for Cisco’s Security Business Group (SBG). Reporting to the Sr. Director, Associate General Counsel for Cisco’s Security, Observability and Data Platform organization, you will lead the legal professionals delivering elite, front-line counseling across the full breadth of product development and go-to-market activities for the dynamic business units comprising SBG.

You will serve as the principal Product Legal partner to the leader of the Security Business Group. You will build trusted relationships with senior executives and cross-functional partners, translate complex legal issues into practical business guidance, and lead your team through a dynamic period of innovation, growth, and organizational integration.

Responsibilities:

- Lead, develop, and inspire the legal teams supporting the SBG units, establishing clear priorities and delivering coordinated, high-quality legal support across the organization.

- Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to senior business leaders on product development, technology strategy, go-to-market models, regulatory requirements, intellectual property, commercial matters, and other significant legal and business risks.

- Guide legal support for SBG products and services throughout their lifecycles, including compose and development, product readiness, launch, commercialization, integration, and compliance.

- Develop scalable legal strategies and operating models that enable innovation and growth while effectively handling risk across sophisticated security software, cloud, data, AI, and platform offerings.

- Collaborate proactively across Product Legal and with Legal subject-matter guides and cross-functional partners, including product management, engineering, sales, marketing, finance, operations, privacy, security, regulatory, AI governance, competition, intellectual property, and corporate development teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Juris Doctor or equivalent law degree and active bar membership in good standing in at least one jurisdiction.

- 10-12+ years of relevant legal experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department, including meaningful experience advising enterprise technology, software, cloud services, cybersecurity, or observability businesses.

- 5+ years of experience leading attorneys and other legal professionals, including responsibility for team development, performance management, prioritization, and delivery of legal services across a sophisticated organization.

- Demonstrated experience advising senior executives on sophisticated product development and go-to-market matters involving intellectual property, licensing, data, privacy, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, regulatory requirements, and technology transactions.

- Experience leading legal support for global product portfolios or business units, including the ability to assess sophisticated legal and business risks and provide practical, business-focused mentorship.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Deep knowledge of enterprise security, cybersecurity, SaaS or platform technologies and their associated business models and regulatory environments.

- Experience serving as the legal advisor to senior executives and participating in business leadership teams within a large, global technology company.

- Consistent track record to lead through transformation, business integration, and evolving product and go-to-market strategies.

- Strong people leadership skills, with a record of building inclusive, high-performing teams and developing legal professionals.

- Outstanding judgment, executive presence, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, modesty, and a solutions-oriented approach to sophisticated challenges.

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

- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- Juris Doctor
- legal experience
- team leadership
- strategic advisory
- product development
- intellectual property
- regulatory requirements
- cybersecurity

### Nice to have
- enterprise security
- SaaS or platform technologies
- business leadership
- people leadership
- solutions-oriented approach

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