Strategic & Employee Communications Director

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.
• Led 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 increase the speed, scale, and effectiveness of communications while maintaining quality, accuracy, security, and brand standards.
• Create and oversee engaging communications in a range of formats, including written content, infographics, presentations, video, and other multimedia experiences.
• Strengthen coordination across employee, executive, external, business, and marketing communications through shared planning, messaging, and timing.
• Build strong 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.

Qualifications

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