Sr. Manager, Employee Communications (Remote)

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Cisco's Global Employee Communications team is looking for an experienced leader, collaborator, and storyteller who embodies a positive attitude, believes in the power of great teamwork, and values strong, healthy collaboration. In this role, you will partner with business leaders and stakeholders across all Cisco functions-including Business Entities (BEs) such as Splunk-to support our Communications Centers of Excellence and advance company-wide business priorities.

Reporting to the Director of Employee Communications, this hands-on, global role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth, and highly collaborative environment. You will deliver creative and effective communication strategies, champion procedures, and set high standards for quality and operational excellence-all while fostering a culture of mutual support, continuous learning, and positive collaboration as part of a passionate, high-performing team.

This role can be performed from anywhere in the United States.

• Strategic Communications Leadership: Co-lead the development and execution of global, employee-focused communication and content strategies for business-critical initiatives, ensuring alignment with corporate priorities.
• Event & Editorial Management: Co-lead the planning and execution of major global employee meetings and events. Manage editorial coverage and internal communications for key company initiatives and external events such as WEF, RSA, Cisco Live, .conf, GSX etc.
• Employee Engagement & Inclusion: Facilitate strategic and tactical communications that drive employee engagement, foster inclusion, and reinforce key messaging across all levels of the organization.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to align employee engagement with external and executive communications.
• Center of Excellence Enablement: Contribute to the development, implementation, and management of the Employee Communication Center of Excellence, driving best practices across Cisco.
• Team Leadership & Development: Manage and mentor a team of internal communications specialists, supporting their professional growth, tracking progress on key projects, and fostering operational excellence, speed, and efficiency.
• Storytelling & Messaging: Craft compelling, clear, and impactful narratives for a global employee audience. Deliver innovative solutions to engage and inspire employees worldwide.
• Change Agility & Creative Problem-Solving: Adapt communications to evolving business needs in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, delivering creative and effective strategies.
• Global Perspective: Demonstrate expertise in supporting and communicating with large, geographically dispersed employee populations, maintaining high standards for quality and rigor.

• Co-lead the strategy for communication tools and standard methodologies, including global employee meetings, SharePoint intranet, email (Outlook, Poppulo), video, graphic design, editorial calendar (Airtable), Slack, Webex, and digital signage.
• Track and analyze internal communication engagement metrics; recommend improvements based on data.
• Manage editorial calendars in Airtable.
• Lead enterprise employee communications strategy and governance, including integrated editorial planning, publishing standards, and shared storytelling frameworks to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment across channels and teams.
• Own and evolve core employee communications platforms and programs, partnering with IT and third parties to deliver scalable tools, trusted sources of truth (e.g., intranet and Bridge), and high-impact editorial vehicles for key company moments.

• 10+ years of experience leading strategic internal communication programs and teams.
• Proven experience leading communications for a technical function at a mid-to-large company.
• Strong ability to influence and collaborate with all levels of leadership.

• Experience managing and scaling global communications, events, programs, and processes.
• Demonstrated success in high-growth environments and organizational change management.
• Exceptional writing and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field; graduate degree and/or technology industry experience is a plus.
• Passion for telling the most exciting technology stories of the decade.

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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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.