Director, Associate General Counsel: Product Legal

About this role

The application window is expected to close on: 09/17/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received .

Members of the Legal organization at select locations will generally be expected to follow a hybrid work model, which includes two days of in-office attendance each week, with limited exceptions.

Meet the Team

Cisco Legal’s Product Legal organization provides strategic, business-focused counsel across Cisco’s product development and go-to-market activities. We partner closely with product, engineering, marketing, finance, operations, sales, and executive leadership to advance innovation, manage risk, and help bring trusted technology solutions to customers worldwide. Cisco’s Security, Observability and Data Platform organization, which includes the Security and Splunk business units, deliver ground breaking, AI-powered security and observability products and platforms that help organizations protect, supervise and strengthen resilience across their entire digital footprint.

Your Impact

We are seeking a strategic, and technology-focused attorney to serve as Senior Director, Associate General Counsel for Security, Observability and Data Platform . Reporting to the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel leading the Product Legal 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 these business units. You will serve as the principal Product Legal partner to the leader of the Security, Observability and Data Platform organization. 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. ●      Lead, develop, and inspire the legal teams supporting the combined Splunk and Security business 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 Security, Observability and Data Platform products and services throughout their life cycles, 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 and observability software, cloud, data, AI,  and platform offerings. ●      Collaborate proactively across Product Legal and with Legal subject-matter experts and cross-functional partners, including product management, engineering, sales, marketing, finance, operations, privacy, security, regulatory, 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. ●      15+ years of relevant legal experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department, including substantial experience advising enterprise technology, software, cloud services, cybersecurity, or observability businesses. ●      7+ 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, observability, data analytics, cloud, SaaS, or platform technologies and their associated business models and regulatory environments. ●      Experience serving as the principal 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, humility, and a solutions-oriented approach to sophisticated challenges.

Why Cisco?  At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.  We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

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