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Cisco · Presencial · San Jose, California, US
The application window is expected to close on: 10/26/2026

Meet the Team

The Customer Experience (CX) Marketing team is responsible for differentiating Cisco’s CX, positioning it as a personalized, proactive, and predictive experience that defines our market leadership.


Your Impact

As the engine behind our communication strategy, you will partner closely with geography leaders to articulate how Customer Experience (CX) drives unmatched value across our portfolio, with Cisco IQ serving as the primary delivery vehicle. This role is central to scaling our impact by creating engaging content that resonates across diverse global markets and sales enablement organizations.


Responsibilities

  • Establish a consistent cadence with geography leaders to communicate opportunities and ensure services are central to every sales motion.
  • Partner with internal communicators, executives, and external vendors to translate core messaging into compelling visuals and narratives.
  • Iterate rapidly on communications, accounting for geographic nuances to ensure content resonates across diverse markets and channels.
  • Partner with enablement teams to champion Cisco IQ through global learning and sales training ecosystems.
  • Own the production and design of deliverables to engage and drive momentum within the sales organization.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of related experience, or Master’s degree plus 4 years of related experience.
  • Proven track record of driving engagement and adoption within large-scale sales organizations.
  • Exceptional ability to synthesize complex technology into clear, accessible, and persuasive communications.
  • Proven experience leading portfolios of strategic programs with enterprise-wide impact, ideally within a large, matrixed organization.
  • Experience collaborating with and influencing cross-functional stakeholders, executives, and external vendors.

 


Preferred Qualifications

  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Strong communication skills with a proven ability to drive measurable impact.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and adapt to shifting priorities with operational complexity.

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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