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Meet the Team

Cisco’s Channels Legal Team within Cisco’s best in class legal department provides legal support to Cisco’s Global Partners and Routes to Market Sales (GPRS) Team enabling its authorized channel partners to contribute approx. 90% to Cisco’s overall bookings in a $50B+ company. Our team is collaborative and driven to help grow Cisco’s revenue while minimizing risks. Most importantly, we take the time to know each other as people and have fun together. We are passionate about creating a caring, inclusive environment where people love coming to work.

Your impact

You'll work with Cisco business teams to enable a diverse array of arrangements with our most important strategic partners. You’ll be part of a dynamic in-house legal department supporting the business to redesign existing channel and incentive programs, and expand Cisco’s business in new areas (e.g. marketplace platforms). Supporting Cisco’s channel ecosystem presents the most complicated problems we face as a company—you’ll help us solve them in a stimulating, fast-paced environment with smart and creative people.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bar admission in any jurisdiction and in good standing with 5+ years of experience practicing law, preferably in-house legal experience in a technology B2B sales/commercial legal role.
• Direct experience advising a channel partner organization and/or leading negotiations involving systems integrators, distributors, resellers and managed service providers.
• Understanding of different types of technology offerings (e.g. hardware, software, Xaas, support) and the ways in which they are sold/licensed.
• Experience managing commercial deals and collaborating with multiple stakeholders (e.g. finance, sales, operations, partner organization, compliance).
• Excellent drafting skills for a variety of documents (e.g. agreements, email communications, presentations, etc).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of US antitrust laws impacting a channel distribution ecosystem.
• Experience developing and delivering training to internal clients and legal colleagues.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight and as part of a team.
• Eagerness to learn new things and unafraid to ask questions.
• Knowledge of privacy and data protection law and experience applying revenue recognition and other financial principles common to a US based publicly traded company.

#WeAreCisco

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. Simply put – we power the future.

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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