Principal Corporate Counsel: Content at Cisco

What You'll Do

You will join Ciscos Regulatory Affairs and Human Rights team as the primary attorney for product safety and accessibility. You will advise and lead on Ciscos policies and regulatory compliance pertaining to content moderation, responsible innovation, and accessibility, closely partnering with your colleagues on the Regulatory Affairs team and across Cisco Legal, as well as Government Affairs, Engineering, Sales, and Corporate Affairs.

About You

You are a diligent, agile, and curious attorney with proven experience advising businesses in local regulatory and corporate policy areas pertaining to content moderation, responsible innovation, and accessibility. You are a positive, engaged, and adaptable colleague who is passionate about Ciscos purpose to Power and Inclusive Future for All, your clients, and their business. You possess excellent social, communication and drafting skills, and you can synthesize complex issues and influence and lead across functions (both legal and non-legal). You have sharp business focus and are dedicated, highly collaborative, and pragmatic. You are adaptable and a self-starter. You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, team environment and demonstrate the ability to optimally handle frequent changes in priorities, deadlines, workload, and conflicting laws. You are not afraid of complexity and are intent on offering simple, elegant solutions.

But more important than all of that, you are an amazing colleague who is eager to join a fun and dynamic team. You appreciate your teammates, you dont take yourself too seriously, and you are deeply committed to sustaining a welcoming and inclusive team.

We cant wait for you to join us.

How Youll Contribute

Your primary responsibilities will be to:
• Act as the subject-matter expert and resource across a range of regulatory issues, including content moderation, product trust and safety, responsible innovation, and accessibility.
• Counsel your legal colleagues, product engineering, go-to-market teams, and other business teams on global regulations and develop Cisco policies and implementation plans to meet our compliance obligations and customer expectations on these topics.
• Assist with responses to regulatory inquiries and investigations.
• Develop and implement Ciscos strategy with respect to new laws and regulations and Ciscos commitments related to them.
• Advance Ciscos commitment to developing sustainable, scalable, and ethical approaches to complex business issues.
• Support Ciscos regional Government Affairs leads on their work related to emerging regulatory trends and frameworks that impact Ciscos business.

Your Minimum Qualifications
• Law degree (J.D. or non-U.S. equivalent), with excellent academic credentials. You are a licensed attorney in good standing in one or more jurisdictions where Cisco does business.
• 7+ years of relevant legal, in-house, and/or law firm experience. Prior in-house experience with a public company is preferred, but we will consider a candidate with demonstrated experience working with technology companies on regulatory matters in relevant subject-matter areas.
• Substantive legal experience and knowledge in regulatory and/or corporate policy matters involving at least some of the following areas: human rights, trust and safety, content moderation, responsible innovation, accessibility, law enforcement response.

Who You'll Work With

Cisco Legal is a community of over 450 professionals committed to driving Ciscos success and maintaining a fun, diverse and collaborative working environment. We think of ourselves as leaders within the company, leveraging a customer-centric, transparent, and agile approach to helping Cisco continuously evolve its business and lead the industry. We are based in more than 25 countries, supporting each other as one team and proud of the many ways we give back to our communities.

You will be joining Cisco Legals Regulatory Affairs and Human Rights team, and you will report to our Associate General Counsel, Director of Human Rights. The Regulatory Affairs and Human Rights team is comprised of lawyers, operational specialists, program managers, engineers, and subject matter experts focused on topics ranging including data and privacy, global trade, environmental compliance, sustainability, telecommunications, and human rights. The teams charter is aligned with influencing, interpreting, and implementing evolving and existing regulations that impact Ciscos business. As a result, you will partner with your colleagues in Legal and numerous other functions across the company to have an immediate impact with your analytic rigor, business judgment, and ability to get things done.

We are all deeply committed to sustaining a work environment where all of us can thrive. We don't just accept difference; it's one of our key values. We listen to each others opinions. We know that diverse teams are the strongest teams, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We think youre going to love it here.
Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think were old (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but were also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do you cant put us in a box

But Digital Transformation is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair? Dont care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? Thats cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us

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