Lead Product Designer

The application window is expected to close on December 1, 2025

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

Note : This role can be performed from anywhere within the United States.

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 will be one of two founding designers for Cisco Cloud Control, a next-generation enterprise platform that connects Cisco's security, networking, and AI products. 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 seamless user experiences that feel unified across the Cisco ecosystem - combining systems thinking with exceptional visual craft, graphic design depth, and meticulous page-layout execution.

Your Impact

As a Lead Product Designer, you'll be a hands-on design leader defining the foundational experience for Cisco Cloud Control. You'll work end-to-end - from strategy and prototyping to pixel-perfect, highly polished visual execution - creating scalable experiences that elevate usability, clarity, and trust across products.

This role requires someone with world-class visual and interaction craft, capable of transforming complex enterprise workflows into elegant, modern, editorial-quality interfaces. You will set the bar for visual design excellence across the suite and influence how Cisco expresses its next generation of AI-powered experiences.

Key Responsibilities :

Design and evolve platform frameworks and patterns which integrate multiple Cisco product lines within the Cloud Control suite.

Drive the vision and execution for AI-integrated, agentic, generative UI workflows across the platform.

Apply enterprise platform thinking to create modular, extensible systems that work across a wide range of use cases.

Establish and uphold an exceptional standard of visual design - delivering refined layouts, typography systems, iconography, and graphic compositions that elevate clarity and delight.

Craft beautifully structured, editorial-quality UI surfaces and page layouts that simplify dense information models.?

Collaborate deeply with Product, Engineering, and Research partners - aligning priorities, influencing roadmaps, and ensuring cohesive, end-to-end journeys.

Champion design excellence, visual storytelling, and cross-functional collaboration, setting a new bar for craft quality across Cisco's AI platform.

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.

Proven mastery of visual design, including layout systems, typography, hierarchy, color, grid usage, and graphic composition.

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.

Expert-level proficiency in Figma - with a strong ability to produce high-fidelity visual mocks, refined component designs, and sophisticated page layouts.

Experience working on system-level, cross-product platforms that power enterprise-scale solutions.

Portfolio showcasing impeccable visual craft, typography mastery, grid fluency, and thoughtful, elegant page-layout work.

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.

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 :

The starting salary range posted for this position is $168,800.00 to $241,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and / or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation

• , equity, or benefits.

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

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 :

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 :

$168,800.00 - $277,400.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state :

$148,800.00 - $248,200.00

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.