Senior UX Designer, Design Systems

Cisco Systems; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading technology company as a Senior UX Designer, where you'll shape a unified design language across Cisco’s product portfolio. Collaborate with diverse teams to create scalable design solutions and maintain a cohesive design system that enhances user experience. This role combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution, offering the chance to lead the development of components that define our design system while ensuring quality and accessibility.

Benefits

Dedicated paid time off to volunteer

Inclusive Communities for collaboration

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in UX design for enterprise solutions.
• 2+ years of experience in building and maintaining design systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive component creation.
• Develop scalable design solutions balancing innovation and constraints.
• Mentor product designers while contributing hands-on design work.

Skills

UX Design

Interaction Design

Visual Design

Problem Solving

Tools

Figma

React

Job description

The application window is expected to close on: May 15, 2025.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team

The Magnetic Design Systems team drives the evolution of a unified design and user experience for Cisco’s enterprise product portfolio. By leveraging a centralized design systems approach, the team empowers product teams to implement consistent, reusable, and accessible components and design patterns with speed and efficiency. They are responsible for the visual direction, front-end architecture strategy, and ongoing maintenance of the design system, all while championing modern aesthetics and fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Your Impact

As a Senior UX Designer on the Magnetic Design Systems team, you will contribute to shaping a unified design language that enhances user experience across Cisco’s product portfolio. This role offers the opportunity to create scalable design solutions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and lead the development of components and patterns that define our design system. By blending strategy and hands-on execution, you will help deliver a consistent, high-quality design system that empowers teams and delights users.

• Collaborate with designers, researchers, program and product managers to drive component and pattern creation, adoption, and technical implementation.
• Develop scalable design solutions that balance future-forward thinking with current technology constraints.
• Act as a “Player/Coach” by contributing hands-on design work and mentoring product designers.
• Create and maintain components, libraries, and UI patterns that align with product directions, ensuring a cohesive system.
• Document and define usage guidelines for components and patterns to support design and engineering teams.
• Partner with Engineering teams to ensure accurate implementation of components and uphold quality standards through detailed QA.
• Conduct design system audits and review designers’ files to ensure proper use of Magnetic components, providing actionable feedback.
• Support stakeholders by answering questions across Magnetic support channels and hosting weekly office hours.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 + years of experience in UX design, with a focus on interaction design and visual design for enterprise or complex product solutions.
• 2+ years of experience in building and maintaining design systems.
• 2+ years of experience using Figma.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or contributing to a project or application using React, with an understanding of React’s component-based architecture.
• Experience designing for accessibility and inclusivity, including a working knowledge of WCAG standards.
• Hands-on experience with motion design, animation, or illustration, with examples of projects demonstrating these skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex challenges into simple, actionable design solutions.

#WeAreCisco

#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people . One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer— 80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!

About the company

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley.