Strategic & Employee Communications Director

Keysight Technologies, Inc.•Sacramento, CA

About The Position

Keysight is seeking a Strategic & Employee Communications Director to lead global employee communications aligned with the company’s business priorities, values, and culture. The role leads employee communications through Pulse, Keysight’s intranet, and develops clear narratives, campaigns, and calls to action that help employees understand company strategy and initiatives and build engagement. It leads communications for enterprise priorities, transformations, organizational changes, and business milestones, while advising senior leaders and creating executive and employee-facing materials. The director leads the employee communications function, including editorial strategy, content standards, channel effectiveness, and daily operations. The position creates content in written, visual, presentation, video, and other multimedia formats; applies AI and digital tools responsibly to improve communications; and coordinates messaging across employee, executive, external, business, and marketing communications. It builds cross-functional partnerships and uses employee feedback, channel data, and business outcomes to measure and improve communications. The preferred location is Santa Rosa, California.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, plus 10 or more years of communications or equivalent experience.
Excellent visual and written storytelling skills, including the ability to synthesize and simplify complex engineering information into clear, compelling content.
Strong proficiency with generative AI and emerging communications technologies, including responsible use for content development, workflow automation, audience insights, and communications measurement.
Experience leading communications professionals and complex cross-functional programs.
Strong attention to detail.
Ability to work under deadlines and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
Technical proficiency to publish and manage the backend of a SharePoint-based intranet and use an internal email platform.
Self-starter with a strong work ethic who takes initiative and works independently.
Good organizational, interpersonal, and project management skills.

Nice To Haves

Communications experience in a high-tech field.
Photoshop experience.

Responsibilities

Set and execute a global employee communications strategy aligned with Keysight’s business priorities, values, and culture.
Translate company strategy and key initiatives into clear narratives, campaigns, and calls to action that build employee understanding, alignment, and engagement.
Lead communications for major enterprise priorities, transformations, organizational changes, and business milestones.
Advise senior leaders on communications strategy and develop executive messages, presentations, talking points, and employee-facing materials.
Lead the employee communications function, including editorial strategy, content standards, channel effectiveness, and day-to-day operations.
Use AI, automation, and digital tools to improve the speed, scale, and effectiveness of communications while maintaining quality, accuracy, security, and brand standards.
Create and oversee communications in written, infographic, presentation, video, and other multimedia formats.
Strengthen coordination across employee, executive, external, business, and marketing communications through shared planning, messaging, and timing.
Build partnerships across Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Strategy, Marketing, Legal, business groups, and regional teams.
Use employee feedback, channel data, and business outcomes to measure effectiveness and continuously improve communications.