Leader, Privacy Program

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  • Location:
    RTP, North Carolina, US
  • Alternate Location
    Anywhere US based
  • Area of Interest
    Legal
  • Compensation Range
    142800 USD - 227200 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    *None
  • Job Id
    1442805


The application window is expected to close on: July 18, 2025


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


Meet the Team


The Regulatory Affairs team within Cisco’s Legal department is comprised of lawyers, operational specialists, program managers, engineers, and subject matter experts focused on topics including privacy, global trade, cybersecurity, telecom, environmental sustainability, and various regulatory practice areas. The team is chartered with influencing, interpreting, and implementing compliance strategies for evolving and existing regulations. The team interacts with internal and external partners on topics impacting Cisco’s business to educate and advocate for Cisco’s positions. We partner with colleagues in Legal and functional teams across the company to drive impact.


The Privacy Center of Excellence is seeking an experienced program leader to manage a team and engage with leadership across Cisco to maintain, evolve, and grow the Cisco Privacy Program.


Your Impact


The Privacy Program Lead is responsible for managing and overseeing the organization's privacy initiatives and ensuring compliance with data protection laws/regulations, industry standards, and customer demands. This role involves developing and operationalizing privacy and data related policies and standards, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and driving a culture of privacy awareness throughout the organization. In this role, you will:


  • Support and contribute to implementing the Privacy Center of Excellence’s mission of compliance, market access, and differentiation.
  • Work closely with Cisco’s Regional Privacy Officers, privacy lawyers, engineers, and operations specialists to develop, operationalize, and evolve frameworks to manage privacy risk, enable responsible data use, and enhance trust in Cisco.
  • Engage and collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams in Legal, Government Affairs, Security & Trust, Product, People & Communities, and other departments.
  • Lead a team of privacy and operations professionals working with key collaborators throughout Cisco to lead Cisco privacy training, due diligence, escalated assessments, reporting, notices, requests, inquiries, policies, standards, controls, and guidelines as well as drive the adoption of standardized, scalable, and automated (where possible) processes.
  • Maintain program metrics, certifications, and conduct maturity program scoring.

Minimum Qualifications:


  • Bachelors degree in relevant field with a minimum of 8+ years of experience in privacy, data protection, compliance, or a related field
  • Proven leadership skills with a track record of motivating, empowering, supporting, and engaging team members to achieve optimal business results, develop their skills and careers, and enjoy their work.
  • Strong experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to develop, deliver, and guide effective, efficient compliance strategies and programs.
  • Ability to identify privacy risks, calibrate and prioritize them, develop mitigation strategies, and align privacy goals with business objectives.
  • Experience working in program management, privacy, data compliance, or other relevant areas and knowledge of program tools(e.g., Monday.com, Asana, Microsoft Project, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:


  • Professional certifications such as Certified Information Privacy Professional, Certified Information Privacy Manager, or Program Management Professional are a plus.
  • Experience developing and leading a team.

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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. Simply put – we power the future.


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.


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 access 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.

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