Responsibilities

• Internal/Employee Communications: Develop and execute communication plans aligned to business priorities and organizational goals.
• Internal/Employee Communications: Own and manage large-scale organizational communications, including global all-hands meetings, leadership forums, and major announcements.
• Internal/Employee Communications: Maintain a coordinated communications calendar and cadence to ensure timely, consistent outreach across audiences and regions.
• Internal/Employee Communications: Write and refine clear, engaging messages tailored to diverse employee groups.
• Internal/Employee Communications: Manage the planning, timing, and cascade of communications to ensure messages land effectively across the organization.
• Executive Thought Leadership: Develop internal and external communications for executives, including emails, presentations, and briefing materials.
• Executive Thought Leadership: Own and maintain a centralized presentation library to ensure leaders have access to current messaging and visual assets.
• Executive Thought Leadership: Plan and execute executive presentations and speaking content for major Cisco, customer, partner, and industry events through strategic communications planning and execution.
• Executive Thought Leadership: Manage executive social media presence to elevate visibility and engagement.
• Executive Thought Leadership: Create executive blog content and oversee executive correspondence to ensure consistent, authentic messaging.
• Change Management/Strategic Communications: Lead communications planning and messaging for organizational change initiatives.
• Change Management/Strategic Communications: Partner cross-functionally to coordinate effective communication delivery across teams, regions, and channels.
• Change Management/Strategic Communications: Collaborate with stakeholders to design distribution plans that reach the right audiences at the right time.
• Change Management/Strategic Communications: Advise on and manage business-critical communications, including time-sensitive or high-impact situations.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in executive communications and/or marketing within the technology sector, with the ability to translate complex topics into clear, compelling narratives.
• Advanced ability to design and structure presentations that inform, influence, and inspire senior audiences.
• Exceptional writing skills, including the ability to synthesize complex or fragmented information into cohesive stories.

Preferred

• Experience communicating about cloud and/or AI infrastructure technologies in a clear, engaging, and audience-appropriate way.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to adapt messaging across formats and channels.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across functions and geographies, both virtually and in person.
• Comfortable presenting to diverse audiences—from individual contributors to executive leadership—with confidence and executive presence.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technologies into clear narratives while building strong relationships and driving work forward independently.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life insurance
• grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time
• 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