Data Analyst: People Legal Team

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

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

Cisco’s People Legal team partners across the business to support employment-related legal matters, compliance programs, employee transitions, and strategic people initiatives. The team operates in a fast-paced, multifaceted legal environment where data integrity, collaboration, and operational excellence are essential to delivering timely, informed, and scalable support.

Your Impact

Cisco’s People Legal team is seeking a strategic and analytical Data Analyst to help drive data integrity and redefine operational workflows across legal data management and collaboration tools. In this role, you will have a broad view of the People Legal team and help bridge fragmented manual data management workflows with high-impact, AI-ready architecture.

You will transform complex, unstructured data into actionable insights, support legal operations reporting, improve process efficiency, and help enable data-driven decision-making across Legal, People & Communities, and related organizational partners.

• Own accurate and timely management of sensitive legal data in case management and related systems, including Salesforce, eBilling, Workday, and DocuSign.
• Maintain, analyze, and report on data across multiple workstreams, including external legal matters, compliance programs, employee transitions, and legal operations activities.
• Derive insights from Legal, People & Communities, and organizational datasets to support strategic decisions, exploratory data analysis, and operational reporting needs.
• Partner with the Operations Manager to diagram, analyze, and evaluate data processes, identify trends and bottlenecks, and recommend operating efficiencies.
• Serve as a data liaison for external compliance vendors, managing complex data flows and validating critical inputs for regulatory filing accuracy, including mandatory federal filings, state-level mandates, and global requirements.
• Analyze complex datasets using AI, automation, and digital collaboration tools to support development of AI-ready data architecture.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in data, metrics, analytics, reporting, or equivalent experience in roles of increasing complexity or scope.
• Experience managing, analyzing, and reporting on data in systems such as Workday Reporting, Salesforce, database reporting tools, or case management platforms.
• Experience using AI, automation, or collaborative tools to support data analysis, process improvement, or reporting.
• Experience managing multiple data requests, reports, or projects within established timeframes.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data, metrics, analytics, reporting, or equivalent experience in roles of increasing complexity or scope.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret, explain, and communicate the meaning of measures and metrics.
• Strong organizational skills, technical acumen, and ability to self-manage while effectively taking direction.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work cross-functionally with stakeholders at multiple levels of leadership.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify, assess, and communicate data gaps, inconsistencies, and risk areas.
• Positive, team-focused, service-oriented, and results-driven approach, with curiosity and a passion for improving efficiencies through data and technology.

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 details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. 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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.