Principal Corporate Counsel

Meet the Team
This is an exciting opportunity to join Cisco's Legal team supporting our Brazil Sales organization. As a member of the Latin America and Canada team, you'll collaborate with a group of nine dedicated professionals who are committed to making every team member's journey both rewarding and challenging.

Our team reports directly to the Americas Legal Sales VP, offering plenty of opportunities for cross-functional collaboration. Here, you'll gain new skills, take on fresh challenges, and grow your expertise in a dynamic, supportive environment.

In Brazil we are Great Place to Work #1

Your Impact
In This Role, You Will

• Provide transactional legal support to the Brazil sales teams, including drafting and negotiating contracts for direct and channel sales such as software license, product and service purchase agreements, cloud agreement, XaaS agreements, channel and alliance agreements.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior sales management and other supporting functions, such as Finance, by deeply understanding Cisco's strategy and priorities and communicating clear and timely guidance and risk analysis to Sales and other stakeholders to enable them to make informed decisions on issues of commercial risk.
• Analyze and help to resolve business and legal issues through clear, practical legal guidance.
• Participate in key global initiatives with cross-functional legal teams designed to improve and accelerate our commercial contracting practice.
• Ensure Compliance and Data Privacy policies and legal requirements are understood and addressed
• Be a highly collaborative team mate, willing to pitch in and assist wherever needed, including accepting distributed workflow cases from other segments time to time.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience working and supporting transactional commercial legal matters in a multinational organization, including understanding of and experience negotiating complex software and services transactions, drafting language for a broad range of issues and contracts with complex technology issues such as intellectual property, software licensing, cloud, compliance, data protection, antitrust, and export-import regulations.
• Expert knowledge of commercial, contract and business law. Knowledge of intellectual property and data protection law.
• Advanced knowledge in public sector procurement process and regulations.
• Experience and familiarity with data privacy such as LGPD, GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy laws, as well as as-a-service offerings.
• Proficiency in English with demonstrated ability to clearly communicate in English both verbally and in writing.
• Excellent academic credentials and admitted to practice Law in the applicable jurisdiction.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Spanish is a plus.
• Understanding of and experience applying revenue recognition and other financial principles common to an US-based publicly traded company.
• Excellent business judgment, advocating for acceptable legal risk to enable business outcomes.
• Customer and client-centric approach, demonstrating respect and a positive attitude under all circumstances.
• Data privacy certification.

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.