Principal Designer, HIG & AI-Driven Governance

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 234,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Principal Designer to shepherd the Cloud Control Human Interface Guidelines and governance across product groups.

You will move the HIG from its first version to an adopted, evolving capability and work without formal authority through X-Teams and guilds. You will define information architecture, taxonomy, and naming, establish cross-functional collaboration, and convert approved guidance into machine-readable rules and evaluation criteria.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product design, information architecture, or design systems.
• Experience shaping information architecture for complex digital products.
• Experience stewarding multi-team design guidelines or governance.
• Experience applying generative AI, agents, or automation in workflows.
• Equivalent related work experience at principal level.

Responsibilities

• Lead evolution of HIG from framework to adopted capability.
• Define information architecture, taxonomy, naming, and rules.
• Establish cross-functional HIG X-Team/guild with governance.
• Partner with design systems, Studio engineering, and product teams to encode guidance.
• Use AI tools to accelerate synthesis, change management, and validation.

Skills

Product design

Information architecture

Design systems

Content architecture

Governance frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Principal Designer to shepherd the Cloud Control Human Interface Guidelines and governance across product groups.

You will move the HIG from its first version to an adopted, evolving capability and work without formal authority through X-Teams and guilds. You will define information architecture, taxonomy, and naming, establish cross-functional collaboration, and convert approved guidance into machine-readable rules and evaluation criteria.