Lead Product Designer: AI-First Platform Experience

Cisco Systems, Inc; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 172,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Lead Product Designer for Cisco Cloud Control. You will shape product and design strategy for an AI-first platform uniting Cisco products, influencing end-to-end journeys across enterprise environments.

You’ll lead end-to-end from strategy to execution, defining AI interactions and scalable experiences, collaborating with product, engineering, and research teams to elevate usability, trust, and consistency across products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master’s degree with 6+ years, or PhD with 3+ years.
• 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 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 design experience

AI-powered design

Cross-functional collaboration

Interaction design

Education

Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience

Master’s degree with 6+ years of related experience

PhD with 3+ years of related experience

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Lead Product Designer for Cisco Cloud Control. You will shape product and design strategy for an AI-first platform uniting Cisco products, influencing end-to-end journeys across enterprise environments.

You’ll lead end-to-end from strategy to execution, defining AI interactions and scalable experiences, collaborating with product, engineering, and research teams to elevate usability, trust, and consistency across products.