Product Designer

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Vision insurance

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Sick time

401(k)

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking an experienced Wireless UX designer to own design work from problem framing through delivery in Cisco's wireless product area. You will collaborate with product, engineering, data, AI, and platform partners to ensure designs are understandable, trustworthy, and shippable.

You will lead research initiatives, craft complete wireless workflows, and contribute to the design system, all while balancing discovery and delivery in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with 3–5 years of related experience in cross-functional teams.
• Experience designing technically complex enterprise products, especially in networking or related domains.
• Experience planning and conducting user research and applying findings to design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define complex wireless problems and advocate for customer needs with product, engineering, and research partners.
• Design complete wireless workflows and elevate craft in interaction design, visual design, and information architecture.
• Connect design decisions to product metrics and define meaningful success measures.
• Independently lead research initiatives with UX researchers as appropriate.
• Contribute to design system evolution through reusable patterns and components.
• Balance discovery, iteration, and delivery while adapting processes to content and problem at hand.
• Lead through influence by communicating design rationale and facilitating workshops with cross-functional partners.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

User research

Enterprise product design

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

PhD or equivalent

Job description

• life insurance
• vision insurance
• parental leave
• paid holidays
• sick time
• 401(k)

Meet The Team

Cisco Networking is an industry leader providing intelligent network solutions for organizations to securely connect users, devices, applications, and workloads everywhere. We empower organizations everywhere - from local libraries to global hotels, hospitals, manufacturers, and more - to focus on their mission and have technology that simply works.

Cisco Wireless UX, part of Cisco Networking UX, shapes wireless product experiences that help our customers understand, monitor, and configure wireless services across their networks. We work closely with product, engineering, data, AI, and platform partners to make advanced technical capabilities useful, trustworthy, and shippable.

We value the growth and development of everyone on our team.

Your Impact

You’ll own design work from problem framing through delivery within Cisco's wireless product area, helping customers make confident decisions about their networks. Where workflows include intelligent recommendations or automated actions, you’ll make them understandable and easy to control.

• Define complex problems within the wireless product area and advocate strongly for customer needs, pain points, and behaviors with product, engineering, and research partners.
• Design complete wireless workflows and consistently elevate craft quality in interaction design, visual design, and information architecture, including edge cases, errors, and recovery.
• Connect design decisions to product metrics, define meaningful success measures, and use evidence to evaluate and improve outcomes.
• Independently lead research initiatives to understand needs, test concepts, and refine designs, partnering with UX researchers as appropriate.
• Contribute significantly to design system evolution through reusable patterns and components that improve your product area.
• Adapt your process to the content and problem at hand, balancing discovery, iteration, and delivery.
• Lead through influence by communicating design rationale, facilitating workshops, and building alignment with cross-functional partners.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years of related experience, or PhD, or equivalent related work experience designing and delivering products in cross-functional teams.
• Experience designing technically complex enterprise products, particularly in networking or a related domain.
• Experience independently planning and conducting user research and applying findings to design decisions.
• Experience collaborating with product managers and engineers, explaining design decisions, and incorporating feedback through implementation.

Preferred qualifications

• A portfolio of shipped work demonstrating interaction design, visual design, information architecture, and prototyping skills.
• Experience using AI to explore, prototype, and communicate design ideas.

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 $138,100.00 to $196,500.00 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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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 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. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$138,100.00 - $226,000.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$124,000.00 - $201,000.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.