Marketing Manager, Content

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$145K/yr – $184K/yrMid Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end content system for executive, customer, analyst, sales, and thought-leadership materials; shape corporate voice, visuals, and cohesive narratives across channels while coordinating with product, marketing, and comms teams.

  • Lead cross-functional content initiatives and storytelling programs
  • Develop and maintain visual identity and executive messaging
  • Monitor industry trends to identify opportunities for proactive storytelling

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop executive, customer, analyst, sales, launch, and thought-leadership materials, including presentations, messaging, briefs, scripts, and visual content.
  • Establish and drive cohesive visual identity discipline across varied external and internal-facing communications assets.
  • Bring clarity and cohesion to our most strategic narratives—from AI to infrastructure to the future of secure compute
  • Shape and strengthen our executive voice across channels and platforms.
  • Participate in the content creation lifecycle: from intake and drafting to review coordination, stakeholder feedback, and publishing.
  • Partner with product, marketing and broader communications teams to source inputs, align messaging, and maintain editorial quality.
  • Monitor industry trends and identify whitespace for proactive storytelling.

Requirements

  • Bachelors + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience PhD +1 year of experience developing content, messaging, or product marketing for complex technology, infrastructure, networking, semiconductor, or AI businesses.
  • Experience creating executive presentations, messaging frameworks, master narratives, customer materials, sales assets, and multimedia content.
  • Experience leading complex, cross-functional content initiatives and guiding contributors or project teams.
  • Experience communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred

  • Demonstrated experience using generative AI tools as an integral part of the content-development process, including creating graphics, presentations, and other written and visual assets.
  • Experience developing content for executives, customers, sellers, analysts, partners, and employees.
  • Experience in networking, semiconductors, optics, AI infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, or related technology markets.
  • Experience working across a matrixed organization.
  • Experience building reusable content systems, visual libraries, or AI-assisted content workflows.
  • Strong writing, editing, visual storytelling, prioritization, and project execution skills.

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
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
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Salaries

Posted range

$145K/yr – $184K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,138 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
10

Funding

Total Funding
$2.5M
Last Raise
$2.5M
Seed, 39 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 1987
    Seed • $2.5M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
13.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$779.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
38.8%
Direct
49.8%
Referral
9.4%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~95.5K

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Marketing Manager, Content

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