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Meet The TeamThis is an exciting opportunity to join the Cisco legal team directly supporting the Americas Service Provider business. You'll work with Cisco Service Provider customers in the technology, media and communications segment to enable customer success and meet Cisco goals; develop close working relationships with the sales, engineering, operations, finance and legal teams bringing our products to market, and gain a deep understanding of our go-to-market strategies, business processes, and product offerings.
Your ImpactWe are looking for a fun, creative teammate, hungry to dive into a wide variety of hands on work to help drive the business forward.
General expectations for this role: - Adaptability. You are highly motivated, determined, tech-savvy and comfortable working in a dynamic environment and demonstrate the ability to optimally handle frequent changes in priorities, deadlines, and workload.
- Communication and Influence. You have strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate expertly and concisely (in writing and verbally) complex legal and business issues in plain-English with senior staff both inside and outside the company.
- Ability to Positively Disrupt. You are a change agent who can clearly articulate issues with outdated methodologies, broken processes or inefficient ways of doing things and their repercussions in a constructive manner and take full ownership of identifying and implementing better, more innovative ways of doing things.
- Critical Thinking. You have a track record of conducting a careful and thoughtful analysis of complex legal and business agreements and the ability to weigh and articulate the risk and reward of various scenarios in a business-friendly manner.
- Organizational Abilities. You have well-developed organizational and prioritization abilities allowing for the smooth and simultaneous management of multiple projects with complex and demanding deadlines.
- Relationship Management and Customer Centricity. You are a relationship builder. Whether it's forming relationships with customers, clients, support team members, suppliers, or partners, you demonstrate an ability to build credibility, advocate, influence and become a trusted adviser to help achieve the goals of Cisco and our customers. You approach your work with a healthy dose of customer centricity appropriate to the situation, meaning you remember to always keep a pragmatic focus on what helps Cisco best address the needs of our Service Provider customers.
Minimum Qualifications - JD degree and Bar admission in any jurisdiction with good standing, with 5+ years of relevant experience at a law firm and/or in-house.
- Legal experience in software and cloud services industries.
- Detailed knowledge of commercial, contract and business law. Knowledge of intellectual property and data protection law.
- Complex contract negotiation and drafting skills, with the ability to discuss issues in a clear and simple manner both in writing and orally for a broad range of issues and contracts, including but not limited to licensing, warranties, indemnities, and limitations of liability.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience and familiarity with data privacy such as GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy laws, as well as as-a-service offerings.
- Understanding of and experience applying revenue recognition and other financial principles common to a US-based publicly traded company.
- CIPP/E certification is a plus.
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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco's flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco's Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
