Senior Counsel, Data Governance & Privacy (Hybrid)
Cisco Systems
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Job summary
Cisco Systems is seeking a strategic Legal Counsel to join the Privacy and Data Regulatory Legal team. You will shape and enable global privacy, data governance, and AI governance strategies, partnering with product, engineering, security, and business leaders to provide risk-based legal guidance for trusted digital transformation.
The role emphasizes translating complex legal requirements into actionable business guidance, advising on enterprise data governance, and supporting data-related
Qualifications
- Juris Doctor degree with active bar membership.
- 8+ years of legal experience.
- Deep expertise in privacy, cybersecurity, data governance, or technology transactions.
- Experience with global privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA) and emerging AI regulations.
- Experience leading cross-functional governance programs in a multinational tech company.
Responsibilities
- Own interpretation of privacy, data protection, and AI governance laws internationally.
- Advise on enterprise data governance standards, data classification, and lifecycle governance.
- Counsel on data classification, inventories, stewardship, minimization, retention, and defensible deletion.
- Establish governance for sourcing, use, sharing, anonymization, and synthetic data initiatives.
- Define data governance requirements and accountability structures across the company.
- Draft and review Data Processing and Data Sharing Agreements, AI-related contracts and privacy terms.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, security, and compliance to operationalize governance.
- Develop guidelines for legal risks with data uses in analytics, AI, and ML.
- Advise leadership on data-related risk and strategic data utilization.
- Develop data policies, training, and governance guidance.
- Lead responses to regulatory inquiries, audits, and litigation readiness.
- Coordinate with Government Affairs on data legislation and standards.
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Job description
Cisco Systems is seeking a strategic Legal Counsel to join the Privacy and Data Regulatory Legal team. You will shape and enable global privacy, data governance, and AI governance strategies, partnering with product, engineering, security, and business leaders to provide risk-based legal guidance for trusted digital transformation.
The role emphasizes translating complex legal requirements into actionable business guidance, advising on enterprise data governance, and supporting data-related
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