Director, Associate General Counsel: Product Legal

The application window is expected to close on: 11/19/2026 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 Business Group builds market-leading software, hardware, and SaaS solutions spanning network security, zero-trust identity, cloud and application protection, and sophisticated threat detection (XDR and Talos) to secure enterprise digital transformations globally. Your Impact 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. • 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. 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. Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary range posted for this position is $239,700.00 to $303,800.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, expe