Lead Product Designer - AI and Platform Experience

About the role

Cisco’s Platform Experience Group is looking to expand its team with a Lead Product Designer to join the design team for Cisco Cloud Control. This role is remote within the United States, with a strong preference for candidates from San Francisco or San Jose.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve platform frameworks and patterns that connect multiple Cisco products.
• Define 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 products and use cases.
• Collaborate deeply with Product, Engineering, and Research partners to align priorities, influence roadmaps, and deliver cohesive end-to-end journeys.
• Champion visual excellence, design storytelling, and collaboration, helping set a high bar for design craft and execution.
• Use and help advance AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows to rapidly explore concepts, create and test interactive prototypes, accelerate iteration and validation, and communicate complex platform experiences while maintaining strong standards for usability and accessibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master’s degree with 6+ years of related experience, or PhD with 3+ years of related experience.
• Experience designing enterprise platform experiences that connect multiple products or services.
• 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, including influencing decisions across teams or functions.
• Experience using AI-assisted design and/or prototyping tools as part of the product design workflow.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft, systems thinking, scalable design approaches, and clear storytelling.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and influencing skills across teams and functions.
• Advanced proficiency with AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows, including experience helping drive adoption of emerging AI tools to accelerate ideation, experimentation, prototyping, and validation.
• Awareness of emerging AI and UX trends, with a focus on ethical, usable, accessible, and scalable integration.

Skills

• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies.
• Experience with design systems and pattern libraries.
• Ability to lead design discussions and influence stakeholders.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, etc.
• Experience with prototyping tools like Marvel, Principle, or Axure.
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices and standards.

Benefits

At Cisco, we offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment. The starting salary range for this position is $171,600.00 to $245,000.00, reflecting the projected salary range for new hires in U.S. 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.

For locations not listed, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role 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. Additional paid time away includes 10 paid holidays, 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees, a paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness.

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. Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time 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).

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: 75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota; 150% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%; 100% 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.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below: New York City Metro Area $171,600.00 - $281,800.00, Non-Metro New York State & Washington State $151,300.00 - $250,900.00.