# EMEA Privacy & Data Regulatory Legal Counsel

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: UK, Ireland or Belgium
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cisco Legal drives innovation with integrity, partnering across executive leadership, engineering, and sales to shape digital policy, protect customer trust, and champion ethical technology development.

As EMEA Privacy & Data Regulatory Legal Counsel, you will serve as a strategic advisor aligning Cisco's global privacy program with rapidly evolving digital, privacy, and AI governance frameworks across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

**Responsibilities**

- Provide Regulatory Counsel: Deliver actionable legal advice on privacy, data protection, and AI governance across EMEA (including UK and EU GDPR).

- Champion Privacy by Design: Embed privacy and security by design across Cisco's portfolio (including LLMs and AI features) and lead complex DPIAs/TIAs.

- Lead Cross-Border Governance: Ensure compliance for international data transfers (EU SCCs, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, BCRs).

- Shape AI & Digital Policies: Translate the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, and the Data Act into practical product requirements and executive guidance.

- Enable Commercial Velocity: Resolve escalated customer data processing agreements (DPAs), data residency requirements, and regulatory inquiries.

- Support Works Councils & HR: Guide employee privacy matters and Works Council engagements across EMEA jurisdictions.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Law degree with active Bar admission in good standing in a UK or EMEA jurisdiction.

- 10+ years of relevant experience as a privacy and data regulatory lawyer across EMEA frameworks.

- Proven track record managing international data transfers and global accountability frameworks (EU SCCs, DPF, BCRs).

- Sound business judgment with ability to balance legal risk and commercial velocity in fast-paced environments.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Active external privacy or security certifications (e.g., CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, CISM, or CISSP).

- Strong experience with AI governance and emerging digital regulations (specifically the EU AI Act).

- Substantive experience at the intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, and operational resilience (e.g., incident reporting frameworks under GDPR, NIS2, and DORA).

- Experience engaging with European Works Councils and navigating local labor-privacy requirements.

- Professional working proficiency in one or more additional European languages (e.g., French, German, or Spanish).

## Skills

### Required
- Law degree
- Bar admission
- Privacy and data regulatory experience
- International data transfers
- Global accountability frameworks

### Nice to have
- AI governance
- Emerging digital regulations
- Cybersecurity
- Operational resilience
- European languages

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