Legal Counsel

Location: Hybrid / Paris

Travel: 10%

Meet the Team:

Join a dynamic, international legal team tackling diverse projects within a global technology corporation. You will work alongside experienced leaders who champion flexible, independent work practices within a culture that prioritizes high ethical standards and corporate integrity. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate across functions to drive business success and innovation, engage in ongoing professional development to advance your legal career.

Your Impact:

We are seeking a committed, creative Legal Counsel to support the Cisco EMEA Legal team, with a focus on France and other regions based on language skills. Our responsibilities include drafting and negotiating agreement such as sales, software licensing, cloud, SaaS, and Data Processing agreements in line with Cisco’s business strategy. We provide legal advice on privacy, work with cross-functional teams, engage in strategic projects, and deliver legal training. We also ensure that key information is effectively communicated to the management chain and business clients.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of commercial law experience obtained In-house for a large technology company

• Completed your Legal studies in France.

• Excellent written and oral skills in English and French are essential, fluency in other languages will be considered a plus (especially Arabic)

• Demonstrated experience using legal technology or contract life cycle management (CLM) platforms to manage workflows, including AI tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent drafting skills, including an eagle-eye for detail and a creative outlook.

• Readiness to support and help finalize dynamic, complex sales agreements against demanding deadlines and processes.

• A "can-do," dedicated, and flexible attitude guided by sound judgment.

• A growth mindset and a focus on developing relationships with both business clients and global team members.

• Well-developed organizational skills for the simultaneous management of multiple projects.

• The ability to operate efficiently in an AI-driven environment heavily dependent on e-enabled tools.

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.