Senior Corporate Counsel, Product Legal – Splunk AI Full-time

The application window is expected to close on: 3/5/2025

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This is a remote position.

Meet the Team

Join us as we pursue our exciting vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our products and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, a Cisco company, we are committed to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other’s success.

Your Impact

The Cisco Product Legal Team is looking for an experienced, motivated, “tech-enthusiast” attorney to serve as a premier legal advisor and primary business partner to the Splunk AI team. You will work closely with key internal legal, business and technology partners on various strategic and day-to-day legal matters relating to the development and release of Splunk offerings. You will support the introduction of new solutions, help ensure production readiness, build scalable compliance strategies, and address all requirements. You will drive consensus building across legal partners to deliver aligned legal counsel across multifaceted and complex legal issues.

To succeed in this role, you will need to possess excellent critical thinking skills, business judgment, executive presence, and proven leadership skills; maintain a strong work ethic and a high degree of accountability and follow up; and have the ability to use business context to generate pragmatic and effective legal solutions to achieve business objectives while mitigating risks. You should be highly self-motivated and able to work independently, collaboratively, and flexibly in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment; and adapt your approach and demeanor to match shifting demands of different situations. Success requires self-motivation, inquisitiveness, confidence, diligence and a passion to learn about new technologies and to pave ways in unchartered territories. Responsibilities include:

• Supporting product development, readiness and releases by reviewing product release checklists for issues related to intellectual property, open source, data privacy & security, marketing, competition, payment, and other legal and regulatory issues, with a focus on AI/ML legal issues
• Building a trusted advisor relationship with senior managers and leaders across the organization
• Performing due diligence to help ensure compliance with third-party agreements, open source licenses, security attestations and applicable certifications and government regulations
• Developing positive, strong, and cohesive relationships with cross-functional partners across Splunk to optimally deliver on sophisticated tasks and provide solutions to mitigate legal risks;
• Understanding technical lingo and concepts as well as be fluent in enterprise software development methods and business models
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating technology and partnership agreements, including EULAs, Terms of Service, inbound/OEM license agreements, MSP/ISV agreements, partner interoperability agreements, strategic alliance agreements, and consulting and development agreements.

Minimum Qualifications:

• JD degree from ABA accredited university and in good standing of the Bar with 8+ years of experience providing legal support to technology businesses at both a well-regarded law firm and corporate legal department
• Proven experience in the software/SaaS industry with strong understanding of cloud service offerings, including managed service offerings and multi-tenant SaaS architecture as well as on-prem and hybrid offerings
• Expertise in intellectual property, open source issues, data privacy, and information and product security
• A keen interest in AI technology and familiarity with current AI/ML policy and regulation and the ability to keep up to speed where the technological, legal, and regulatory landscape is fast moving

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on AI-powered products or services in a legal counseling capacity.
• Experience working with software developers and product managers to guide compliance and resolve complicated issues in creative and effective ways
• Experience navigating complex issues, and driving high-impact projects, in a large cross-functional environment

#WeAreCisco

#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection-we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer-80 hours each year-allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate’s hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.