Communications Director Supporting the Chief Automation Officer

Director Of Communications

This role is expected to be posted for applications through October 28, 2025. To be considered for this role, you must be based in the Bay Area and willing to go into our San Jose office five days per week.

Cisco's Automation & AI Center designs and implements a unified enterprise AI framework across the company to unlock its true potential and deliver value to our customers, partners, and employees. Specifically, this team shapes and executes Cisco's enterprise-wide data and AI strategy, ensuring alignment with ethical, regulatory, and business objectives and driving innovation while mitigating risk. Cisco's Automation & AI center bridges vision and execution, preventing fragmented efforts, eliminating redundancies, and increasing adoption and trust in AI across the enterprise. This role is critical to Cisco's continued leadership, ensuring our technology not only powers our business but sets the standard for our customers and the industry worldwide.

As Director of Communications, you will play a central and pivotal role in shaping Cisco's future by partnering with the Chief Automation Officer and leadership team. You will drive the communications strategy and execution for Cisco's Automations & AI Center, acting as the face of Cisco's Enterprise AI to both internal and external audiences. Your impact will be to translate complex business and technical ideas into compelling narratives, positioning the organization at the heart of Cisco's critical priorities, inspiring employees, and influencing the technology industry through strategic storytelling and consistent, impactful messaging.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of skills and experience
• 15+ years of communications experience, with deep expertise in executive communications and strategic storytelling
• 4+ years of supervisory and team leadership experience

Preferred Qualifications

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 $230,000.00 to $289,800.00 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 :

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.