Product Designer, Leader Development
About The Position
Cisco’s Leadership & Team Acceleration (LTA) team is evolving its talent engine beyond traditional programs by creating a connected, intuitive, AI-enabled leader experience. The Product Designer works at the intersection of design, product strategy, and development to create tools, insights, and experiences that support Cisco leaders when they need them most and help them build high-performing teams. The role identifies and maps key points in the leader journey, translates leadership expectations and organizational needs into product requirements and development roadmaps, and helps integrate AI tools into personalized development experiences. It uses qualitative and quantitative insights to create actionable learning pathways, prototypes, and user flows; partners with People & Communities and other cross-functional teams to make learning platforms intuitive, accessible, and scalable; and measures and iterates on the impact of enablement tools.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of related experience, or a master’s degree and 4+ years of related experience.
- Background in Human Resources, Organizational Development, product/UX strategy, leadership development, or a related field.
- Strong ability to work in ambiguity and use shift-left approaches to create structure.
- Demonstrable experience applying design thinking and product management principles to internal organizational challenges.
- Strong understanding of modern, AI-integrated digital learning platforms.
- Proficiency with industry-standard design and research tools, such as Figma, and project management platforms, such as Asana, Airtable, or ServiceNow.
- Track record of driving decisions across cross-functional teams, clearly articulating design rationale, and strategically delegating.
- Expertise in scoping, sequencing, roadmapping, and metrics-tied outcomes.
Nice To Haves
- Excellent communication and strategic planning skills, self-motivation, and a focus on execution.
- Experience translating complex insights into prioritized work.
- A user-centered approach and strong interest in continuous learning and professional development.
Responsibilities
- Identify and map key inflection points where leaders need support, translating them into product requirements and development roadmaps.
- Drive integration of AI tools, including BetterUp AI and MyAgent, into the leader experience; use insights to personalize development journeys and simplify access to resources.
- Translate Cisco’s leadership expectations and guiding principles into digital experiences, using shift-left strategies to define problems and scope solutions before development.
- Analyze leader feedback, behavioral patterns, and stakeholder insights to map leadership journeys and create personalized learning pathways.
- Create low-fidelity prototypes and user flows that turn complex organizational information into actionable learning paths, using tools such as Figma and Miro.
- Partner with the broader People & Communities organization to ensure learning platforms are intuitive, accessible, and scalable.
- Establish metrics to evaluate enablement tools, use data to refine product backlogs, and ensure solutions support leader growth and organizational results.
- Drive decisions across cross-functional teams, articulate design rationale, and strategically delegate.
- Scope, sequence, and roadmap work, tying outcomes to metrics.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Paid holidays
- Floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- Paid birthday day off
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- Personal wellness days
- Paid vacation or flexible vacation time off, depending on employee classification
- Paid sick time
- Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional paid volunteer days
- Annual bonuses for eligible non-sales roles
- Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
