Marketing Manager, Content

Cisco•San Jose, CA

2d•$145,200 - $184,100•Remote

About The Position

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. 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.

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.

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
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
annual bonuses
performance-based incentive pay