Marketing Manager, Content

020 Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Marketing Manager for Content to lead high-priority materials spanning silicon, optics, networking, and AI infrastructure. You will craft executive briefs, presentations, messaging and visuals, translating complex technology into clear business outcomes.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to build reusable content systems, maintain editorial quality, and shape narratives across channels while guiding cross-functional teams through the content lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of related content/marketing experience or Master's with 4+ years.
• PhD with 1+ year in content, messaging, or product marketing for tech domains.
• Experience creating executive presentations and master narratives.
• Experience leading cross-functional content initiatives.
• Ability to translate complex concepts for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop executive, customer, analyst, sales, launch, and thought-leadership materials.
• Establish cohesive visual identity across external and internal assets.
• Clarify narratives from AI to infrastructure and secure compute across channels.
• Shape executive voice and messaging across platforms.
• Participate in the content lifecycle from intake to publishing with stakeholders.
• Coordinate with product, marketing, and communications teams to align inputs and ensure quality.
• Monitor industry trends to identify whitespace for storytelling.

Skills

Executive presentations

Messaging frameworks

Master narratives

Customer materials

Sales assets

Multimedia content

Cross-functional leadership

Technical communication

Gen AI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

The application window is expected to close on: 09/30/2026

Meet the Team

The Silicon One team creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development—from design to qualification to production—is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world.

Your Impact

As the Marketing manager, Content you will lead the creation and activation of high-priority content that advances Silicon One’s business and portfolio narratives. Develop executive, customer, analyst, sales, launch, and thought-leadership materials, including presentations, messaging, briefs, scripts, and visual content. Translate complex concepts across silicon, optics, networking, AI infrastructure, programmability, telemetry, and security into clear and compelling business outcomes. Partner with senior technical and business leaders to develop accurate, differentiated content and influence alignment across Cisco. Build reusable content modules, visual systems, and AI-enabled workflows that improve the quality, speed, and scalability of content development.

You will:

• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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 Qualifications

• 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.

Why Cisco?

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.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $145,200.00 to $184,100.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. 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: $145,200.00 - $212,100.00
• Non-Metro New York state & Washington state: $129,100.00 - $188,300.00 * 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.

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