Lead Product Designer

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.