Lead Product Designer, AI Networking Platform

Position Overview

Cisco Networking is an industry leader providing intelligent network solutions to securely connect users, devices, applications, and workloads everywhere. As a Product Design Lead for Networking Assurance, you will operate as a senior design thought-leader, collaborating with a highly skilled cross-functional team to create features that reimagine network engineers’ and other users’ workflows. In this role, you will develop deep domain knowledge, set the vision grounded in customer needs, and work iteratively with teams across Cisco to deliver outstanding results.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive early discovery work to craft roadmaps and design solutions with your team.
• Identify key problems through research, and sketch and prototype effective solutions.
• Earn trust with cross-functional partners by inviting them into the research and co-creation process.
• Present persuasively by telling the story of your projects and building prototypes that articulate design rationale.
• Provide direction and mentor other designers, focusing on critical customer needs and opportunities.
• Think beyond your team’s goals and influence design strategies across the organization.
• Translate ambiguous business needs into clear, customer-focused solutions.
• Facilitate workshops, sketching sessions, and build documentation to enable team collaboration.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience designing and delivering products in cross-functional teams.
• A portfolio demonstrating excellent case studies and prototypes, including work with AI research and design tools.
• Expertise in designing for AI products and/or features.
• Experience working on technically complex B2B enterprise products.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the networking domain or related product experience is a plus.
• Experience aligning teams around customer-centered design decisions using UX methodologies such as double-diamond, personas, journey mapping, lean UX, and prototyping.
• A proven record of mentoring junior UX designers and shipping large-scale enterprise products.

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation: Starting salary range of $166,500.00 to $234,100.00 for U.S./Canada locations, with location-specific ranges (e.g., NYC Metro Area: $191,400.00 - $323,600.00; Non-Metro New York & Washington state: $176,100.00 - $287,900.00).
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions.
• Paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
• Generous paid time off including holidays, birthday leave, vacation, sick time, and volunteer days.
• Eligibility for annual bonuses and performance-based incentive pay for non-sales roles.