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What We Are Looking For

We’re looking for an experienced design lead who can support Meraki product teams as they adopt the Magnetic Design System. You’ll provide guidance, direction and hands on design support to unify our product experiences. You will collaborate with teams and roll up your sleeves to ensure teams understand the adoption processes, frameworks and support. You will support teams as they make design and development decisions sometimes acting in a contributing designer role focused on adoption to help ensure feature sets are designed consistently and leveraged across our portfolio. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand where there are gaps and opportunities for further alignment across the portfolio. Influence and relationship-building are key since decision-making is distributed.

Our team's primary focus is on software, and we also find opportunities to collaborate with teams across the organization to think about how to improve the entire customer journey. Meraki believes the quality of our products is dependent on the quality of our teams. We place a high value on nurturing the growth and development of everyone on our team, giving and receiving feedback early and often, sharing what we know, and learning from each other.

Responsibilities

• Evangelize Design System Adoption across a broad portfolio of products within Cisco.

• Help teams develop an adoption strategy and support them to get traction

• Play a strategic partnership role with engineering and product management for products on the adoption journey at all stages

• Acts as a bridge between Magnetic Design System and product/feature teams.

• Collaborate with cross functional Product and Engineering leads to manage and influence the Magnetic Design System adoption roadmap, backlog,  planning and OKRs.

• Work with the Magnetic cross functional leads to inform the design system backlog and ensure adoption blockers are addressed in a timely manner.

• Partner with teams prioritizing Magnetic by contributing to screen designs and providing direction and guidance to designers and the cross functional feature team as well as teams working without design support.

• Ensure cross-product and cross-platform consistency through consultation, bridge-building, and deep-dive design work on shared patterns.

• Solve design problems consistently across the platform

• Build effective working relationships and bring the wider team into the Magnetic adoption design process.

• Leverage compelling storytelling skills and prototypes that help others envision the strategy and desired outcomes for both the customer and the business.

• Guide teams through the ambiguity and benefits of adopting Magnetic 

• Translate what may start as ambiguous business needs into clear customer-focused solutions and frameworks.

• Provide constructive feedback and direction to other designers.

• Contribute to broader product strategy and initiatives, and mentor more junior designers.

• Play a hands-on role facilitating workshops, sketching and prototyping solutions, creating high-fidelity designs.

You're an ideal candidate if you have:

• 10+ years of professional experience designing and delivering products, services or systems on cross-functional teams from start to finish.

• And a proven track record of:

• Driving high quality design, acting as tastemaker for the team 

• Focusing on the details

• Strength in craft and passion for visual systems

• Inspires designers / product teams to uplevel quality and align to deliver high quality, consistent products on a platform.

• Standardizing and simplifying feature sets across platform(s).

• Developing complex domain knowledge quickly and applying it to design problems and/or opportunities.

• Evangelism and cross functional partnerships leading to successful, released features / products

• Designing user-centered, task-based experiences for enterprise users

• Aligning teams around customer-centered design decisions.

• Making complex solutions feel simple and approachable.

• Familiarity with the networking domain or experience in a related product or field is a plus. 

• Persuasive storytelling and influence.

Does this sound like you? We’d love to hear from you!

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