Lead Product Designer

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  • Location:
    Offsite, San Jose, California, US
  • Area of Interest
    User Experience Design
  • Compensation Range
    132900 USD - 241200 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    AI or Artificial Intelligence, Security, Software Development
  • Job Id
    1449819

The application window is expected to close on Oct 24, 2025  

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.   

 

Meet the Team 

Cisco’s Platform Experience Group is redefining how users interact with Cisco’s products by building the foundation for AI-powered, agentic experiences and Generative UI that scale across the portfolio. 

You’ll be one of two founding designers for Cisco Cloud Control — a high-visibility, next-generation enterprise platform connecting Cisco’s security, networking, and AI product lines. It’s also the home of AI Canvas, one of Cisco’s top priorities. 

The team is small, dynamic, and deeply collaborative. Designers here work closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers to deliver platform experiences that feel unified across the Cisco ecosystem, combining systems thinking with strong visual craft and execution. 
 

Your Impact 

As a Lead Product Designer, you’ll play a hands-on role in defining and delivering the foundational experience for Cisco Cloud Control, a platform uniting multiple Cisco products under one intelligent, AI-first framework. You’ll work end-to-end — from strategy and prototyping to pixel-level detail — to design scalable experiences that elevate usability, consistency, and trust across products.  

 

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Design and evolve platform frameworks and patterns that connect multiple Cisco product lines within the Cloud Control suite. 
  • Drive the vision and execution for AI-integrated, agentic, and generative UI workflows across the platform. 
  • Apply enterprise platform thinking to create modular, extensible systems that scale across use cases. 
  • Collaborate deeply with PM, Engineering, and Research partners — aligning priorities, influencing roadmaps, and ensuring cohesive, end-to-end journeys. 
  • Champion visual excellence, design storytelling, and collaboration, setting a new bar for craft quality. 

Minimum Qualifications 

  • Bachelor's degree + 8 years of related experience, or Master's degree + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience. 
  • Experience designing enterprise platform experiences that connect multiple products or services. 
  • Prior experience in interaction design, information architecture, and visual design for complex, enterprise environments. 
  • Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product, engineering, and research teams from concept through delivery 

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Familiarity with AI-driven design, agentic UX, or generative interfaces. 
  • Proficiency in industry-standard design tools such as Figma, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite. 
  • Experience working on system-level, cross-product platforms that power enterprise-scale solutions. 
  • Portfolio showcasing high visual craft, systems thinking, and storytelling clarity. 
  • Excellent presentation, communication, and influencing skills across teams and functions. 
  • Awareness of emerging AI and UX trends, with a focus on ethical, scalable integration. 

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. Simply put – we power the future. 

 

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:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. 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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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