Paralegal: Splunk Product Legal; Hybrid

The application window is expected to close on: 02/27/2026

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received
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Will consider all US candidates, prefers West Coast Location.

Members of the Legal organization at select locations will generally be expected to follow a hybrid work model, which includes two days of in-office attendance each week, with limited exceptions.

Meet the Team

Join a passionate and dynamic team dedicated to driving innovation and perfection within the Splunk Business Unit. We are united by a shared vision to empower organizations by making machine data accessible, actionable, and invaluable. Our team flourishes with collaboration, creativity, and a dedication to delivering exceptional experiences for our customers. At Cisco, we celebrate our work, support each other's growth, and embrace a culture of fun and success.

Be part of a journey where your contributions truly make an impact!

Your Impact

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cisco Product Legal team directly supporting the Splunk Business Unit. We are seeking a great teammate, excited to join a highly collaborative and collegial product legal team, and eager to dive into a wide variety of work to help drive the business forward. We're looking for a curious, motivated self-starter who can:

• Develop an understanding of Splunk's products and the unique, relevant legal challenges specific to those products

• Cultivate close working relationships with internal stakeholders, including sales, engineering, product management, business development, operations, finance, and other legals legal teams

• Keep up to date on, and provide support, our product compliance programs

• Support cross-portfolio user experience matters

• Partner with both supply chain and sales to help support complex commercial agreements with suppliers, partners, and customers (under appropriate supervision)

• Provide mentorship to product management and engineering teams on new and existing services, products, and features throughout the entire product lifecycle

• Provide mentorship on developer tools and ecosystems

• Be knowledgeable on issues related to privacy and data protection issues on a global basis

• Coordinate inbound legal support requests for the Product Legal Team

• Support collection and management of team KPIs

• Support Product Legal-related policies

• Assist in the continuous improvement of processes and knowledge management (including resource collateral, form agreements, team presentation standards, and playbooks)

• Be adept at making sound judgments quickly to facilitate agile business execution.

• Respond promptly and professionally to requests from internal clients.

• Handle legal requests from multiple internal clients, while prioritizing key matters

• Break down complex issues and communicate them clearly and effectively in plain English.

• Be a great teammate, willing to pitch in and assist wherever needed.

• Perform other legal and business-related duties as needed to support the success of the Splunk business.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience at a law firm and/or in-house (the ideal candidate will have both law firm and in-house experience).

• Legal experience in software and technology businesses.

• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills and desire to make legal processes more efficient and optimized

• Familiarity with intellectual property, security, global data privacy and protection, regulatory, and contract law matters.

• Focused attention to detail and ability to work independently with self-motivation

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.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more…