Lead Product Designer

Cisco Systems, Inc. • Frankfort, KY

47d • Remote

About The Position

As a Lead Product Designer, you'll be a hands-on design leader defining the foundational experience for Cisco Cloud Control. You'll work end-to-end - from strategy and prototyping to pixel-perfect, highly polished visual execution - creating scalable experiences that elevate usability, clarity, and trust across products. This role requires someone with world-class visual and interaction craft, capable of transforming complex enterprise workflows into elegant, modern, editorial-quality interfaces. You will set the bar for visual design excellence across the suite and influence how Cisco expresses its next generation of AI-powered experiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree + 8 years of related experience, or Master's degree + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.
• Experience designing enterprise platform experiences that connect multiple products or services.
• Proven mastery of visual design, including layout systems, typography, hierarchy, color, grid usage, and graphic composition.
• Prior 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.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with AI-driven design, agentic UX, or generative interfaces.
• Expert-level proficiency in Figma - with a strong ability to produce high-fidelity visual mocks, refined component designs, and sophisticated page layouts.
• Experience working on system-level, cross-product platforms that power enterprise-scale solutions.
• Portfolio showcasing impeccable visual craft, typography mastery, grid fluency, and thoughtful, elegant page-layout work.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and influencing skills across teams and functions.
• Awareness of emerging AI and UX trends, with a focus on ethical, scalable integration.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve platform frameworks and patterns which integrate multiple Cisco product lines within the Cloud Control suite.
• Drive the vision and execution for AI-integrated, agentic, generative UI workflows across the platform.
• Apply enterprise platform thinking to create modular, extensible systems that work across a wide range of use cases.
• Establish and uphold an exceptional standard of visual design - delivering refined layouts, typography systems, iconography, and graphic compositions that elevate clarity and delight.
• Craft beautifully structured, editorial-quality UI surfaces and page layouts that simplify dense information models.
• Collaborate deeply with Product, Engineering, and Research partners - aligning priorities, influencing roadmaps, and ensuring cohesive, end-to-end journeys.
• Champion design excellence, visual storytelling, and cross-functional collaboration, setting a new bar for craft quality across Cisco's AI platform.

Benefits

• 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.
• Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees