Role overview
Title: ET&I Marketing & Communications Intern – Emerging Technologies & Incubation
Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, US
Alternate Location, Remote, US
Job Type: Collegiate Intern
Technology Interest: Application Security, Cloud, web3, Quantum Security, Ethical & Responsible AI 🤖👩🏽🎤💡
Compensation Range: $44,000 USD - $130,000 USD
Area of Interest – Marketing and Communications
The Organization: We are Emerging Technologies and Incubations (ET&I) at Cisco. We are chartered to build the next new business for Cisco. To take Cisco into new markets, and especially towards new personas - both buyer and user. And like building a startup from the ground up, it's all about having an entrepreneurial mindset. Taking an idea from a crazy thought to a product that solves a critical need, to an experience that delights users and customers. It's about innovation. From 12 months out to 5 years in the future. Wearing multiple hats. Failing and learning, fast. About challenging assumptions and finding new ways of solving problems. Driving from ambiguity. About creativity.
We are looking for entrepreneurs. Thinkers. Designers. Marketers. Product Led Growth experts. Business Development, SDRs, Customer Success. Product Managers, SWEs, SREs. Data Scientists and ML engineers. Yes, we are building the next set of startups with the support of a trusted name like Cisco. Where else will you get to do this? We are Cisco ET&I. We run bold, we run agile, and we run ambitious. Come create with us.
What You’ll Do:
ET&I Marketing & Communications Intern will focus on helping scale ET&I executive marketing and communications in a fast-paced startup environment.
As the ET&I Marketing and Communications Intern, you will wear multiple hats, committed to delivering excellence across executive presentations, customer engagements, internal team meetings, and exciting initiatives that will grow ET&I’s product adoption, brand, and thought leadership. You are directly tied to strategic communication initiatives that drive clarity, consistency, and focus in an otherwise ambiguous environment.
You will be tasked with the unique responsibility of cultivating authentic relationships with senior executives, stakeholders, and team members who will expand your horizon on new and emerging technologies.
In addition, the ET&I Marketing and Communications Intern will also be responsible for bringing a fresh and diverse perspective to product development, innovation communications, and storytelling, which can give ET&I a competitive advantage. This means not only accomplishing what is expected of you but also taking meaningful action that is a catalyst for change.
What you'll work on
- Enhance and expand your communications skills by completing a 12-week internship in a fast-paced, cross-functional, startup environment
- Develop messaging and content for senior executives
- Write executive communications in partnership with the executive marketing and communications lead
- Build captivating executive presentations in partnership with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
- Contribute to ET&I’s new content repository and further the team’s best practices
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across ET&I to identify new ways to develop and create compelling stories
- Write blogs about an emerging area that ET&I is prioritizing
- Provide targeted research-focused recommendations for leaders based on industry tech trends and market research by the end of the summer
- Challenge the status quo and bring your brilliant ideas
Whom You Will Work With:
Challenge yourself and find the career path in Emerging Technologies & Incubation Team. You will work with Executive Marketing and Communications Leads, Engineers, Product Managers, Operations Managers, Growth Marketing Managers, and many more. We are a diverse team full of ideas and welcome new ones.
In this startup environment, you will also work with senior executives on helping them scale across their marketing and communications activities, which will accelerate new product adoption and inspire new product ideas. You will also learn from intrapreneurs, developers, communications experts, and others who will challenge you to run fast in a stimulating environment.
This is your chance to learn the foundations of modern applications and emerging tech while also working in a startup environment in a large corporation with the guidance of senior talent to help accelerate your career.
Who You Are:
- Including but not limited to an upcoming graduate of a certification program from a Boot Camp, Apprenticeship, Community College, 4-Year University, or masters program
- A visionary who is willing to dream big and unite people under a common charter
- A storyteller who is excited to drive complexity out of the most complex solutions, which enables teams to communicate the business value of ET&I to our shareholders and customers
- Keen interest in strategy and storytelling, serving as the connective tissue for ET&I
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and language skills beyond English are a plus
- Curious about uncovering the next emerging technology that could transform the world
- An effective communicator who can influence across all levels from individual contributors to senior executives
- Proven interest in emerging technologies, startups, marketing, and communications internship, coursework, or work experience
- A culture champion who is eager to make those around them better
- Detail-oriented, resourceful, and able to prioritize under deadlines
- Compassionate about the intersection between culture, technology, and business
- A person who does not shy away from complex problems, but rather leans into creative inclusive, and equitable solutions
- A relationship builder who establishes and maintains authentic and meaningful connections with ET&I stakeholders with integrity
- A person who is unafraid to bring their whole self to work and encourages others to do the same
Why Cisco
#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.
We embrace digital and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns, and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!
But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)
Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.
So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world-changing? Be you, with us!
We recognize that diverse teams make the strongest teams, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.