Lead Product Designer - AI and Platform Experience

020 Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 172,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Lead Product Designer to shape Cisco Cloud Control, an AI-first platform uniting multiple Cisco products. You’ll lead end-to-end design—from strategy and prototyping to execution—creating scalable experiences with usability, consistency, and trust across the portfolio.

Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Research teams to drive AI-native product experiences and define interaction patterns that scale enterprise solutions.

Qualifications

• 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 complex enterprise platform experiences that connect multiple products or services.
• Experience designing and shipping AI-powered or AI-native product experiences where AI meaningfully shapes the end-user workflow.
• Experience in interaction design, information architecture, and visual design for complex enterprise or technical environments.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Research teams from concept through delivery, including influencing product or design decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve platform frameworks and patterns that connect multiple Cisco products.
• Define and deliver AI-powered, agentic, and generative UI experiences across the platform.
• Apply enterprise platform thinking to create modular, extensible systems that scale across products and use cases.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Research partners to influence product direction and deliver cohesive end-to-end journeys.
• Champion strong interaction design, visual craft, prototyping, and design storytelling while helping raise the bar for product quality and execution.
• Use AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows to rapidly explore concepts, test ideas, accelerate iteration, and communicate complex platform experiences.

Skills

Enterprise platform design

AI-powered product experiences

Interaction design

Information architecture

Visual design

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD with related experience

Job description

The application window is expected to close on: 10/25/2026 Note: This role isa Remote, US but astrong preference for candidates from San Francisco or San Jose locations.

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 a core member of the design team for CiscoCloudControl— 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 be a senior individual contributor helping shape the product and design strategy 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 detailed execution — to design scalable experiences that elevate usability, consistency, and trust across products. You’ll also help define how users interact with AI across the platform, creating experiences where AI is a meaningful part of the product workflow.

What You’ll Do

• Design and evolve platform frameworks and patterns that connect multiple Cisco products.
• Define and deliver AI-powered, agentic, and generative UI experiences across the platform.
• Apply enterprise platform thinking to create modular, extensible systems that scale across products and use cases.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Research partners to influence product direction and deliver cohesive end-to-end journeys.
• Champion strong interaction design, visual craft, prototyping, and design storytelling while helping raise the bar for product quality and execution.
• Use AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows to rapidly explore concepts, test ideas, accelerate iteration, and communicate complex platform experiences.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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 complex enterprise platform experiences that connect multiple products or services.
• Experience designing and shipping AI-powered or AI-native product experiences where AI meaningfully shapes the end-user workflow.
• Experience in interaction design, information architecture, and visual design for complex enterprise or technical environments.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Research teams from concept through delivery, including influencing product or design decisions across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing AI-native products in an AI-focused company, startup, or team bringing emerging AI capabilities into production.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft, systems thinking, scalable design approaches, and clear end-to-end storytelling.
• Experience working on system-level, cross-product platforms that power enterprise-scale solutions.
• Advanced proficiency with AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows to accelerate ideation, experimentation, prototyping, and validation.
• Awareness of emerging AI and UX trends, with a focus on ethical, usable, accessible, trustworthy, and 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 $171,600.00 to $245,000.00 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** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at 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) 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: .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