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This role can be performed remotely from anywhere in the United States.
Meet the Team
Splunk, a Cisco company, is at the forefront of building a safer and more resilient digital world. We deliver the market-leading, AI-powered Security Operations (SecOps) platform that empowers frontline defenders to combat the most advanced threats around the world. You will join a team that believes the best technology wins when it is accompanied by a vision that inspires, working to ensure our security strategy resonates with both practitioners and executive leaders.
Your Impact
We are looking for a Chief Storyteller to shape customer and industry perception and own the strategic positioning for Splunk Security. You won't just follow the market; you will drive it. You’ll collaborate with leaders to distill disruptive innovations and trends into resonant, outcome-driven narratives. In this highly visible role, you will influence how the world’s most influential organizations view Splunk and the future of security—ensuring we remain at the center of this vital conversation
Key Responsibilities
Define and Drive the Narrative: Craft the top-level messaging and strategic narrative for Splunk Security to ensure consistency across the portfolio and cut through the noise of a crowded market.
Executive Storytelling & Keynotes: Lead the development of high-impact presentations, scripts, and decks for major stages (sales kick-offs, industry conferences, customer summits) and executive briefings events.
Drive Awareness & Perception: Build out critical, high-value thought leadership assets—white papers, visuals, blogs, vision decks, and videos—that spur conversation and elevate Splunk’s point of view among customers, industry leaders and analysts.
Market Vision & Trends: Synthesize security landscape trends (SIEM, XDR, AI, Threat Intel) and competitor movements into actionable insights and forward-looking thought leadership content.
Translate Technology to Value: Act as the "translator" between technical product teams and non-technical executive audiences, surfacing the bits and bytes into compelling value-driven stories.
Strategic Alignment: Partner with sales, product, and cross-functional leadership to refine and test messaging effectiveness, reflecting the needs of the customer and ensuring on the ground outcomes.
Minimum Qualifications
6+ years of experience in Product Marketing, Corporate Strategy, Strategic Communications, or a related field within the technology sector.
3+ years in cybersecurity or adjacent markets, with a deep understanding of the SOC, the pressure on the CISO, and the language of the industry and customer.
Preferred Qualifications
Master Storyteller: A portfolio demonstrating the ability to write powerful, concise, and persuasive content in various formats from center stage to infographic to drive industry leadership.
Executive Presence: Proven experience working with and influencing senior executives (VPs, C-level) and orchestrating and navigating complex stakeholder processes.
Data-driven: Understand how to leverage seller and product telemetry, message-testing and external research to ensure story-telling is grounded in the customer
Agility & Ownership: Ability to manage multiple high-stakes projects with competing timelines and drive projects from rough ideas to polished deliverables in a timely and collaborative manner.
Visual Strategy: Ability to structure presentations visually and storyboard keynote decks that maintain high audience engagement, working with designers or independently.
Tech-Savvy: Comfortable sitting in technical briefings and asking the right questions to extract a product's core customer value and differentiation.
Relevant experience in areas such as journalism, evangelism, speechwriting, or analyst relations.
Deep expertise in AI/ML impacts on the security landscape.
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 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:
$191,400.00 - $323,600.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$176,100.00 - $287,900.00* 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.