Lead Product Designer - AI and Platform Experience

Job description

The application window is expected to close on: 09/10/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. Note: This role is a Remote, US but a strong preference for candidates from San Francisco or San Jose locations. Meet the Team Cisco’s Platform Experience Group is redefining how users interact with Cisco’s products by building the foundation for AI-powered, agentic experiences and generative UI that scale across the portfolio. You’ll be a core member of the design team for Cisco Cloud Control — a high-visibility, next-generation enterprise platform connecting Cisco’s security, networking, and AI product lines. It’s also the home of AI Canvas, one of Cisco’s top priorities. The team is small, dynamic, and deeply collaborative. Designers here work closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers to deliver platform experiences that feel unified across the Cisco ecosystem, combining systems thinking with strong visual craft and execution. Your Impact As a Lead Product Designer , you’ll play a hands-on role in defining and delivering the foundational experience for Cisco Cloud Control, a platform uniting multiple Cisco products under one intelligent, AI-first framework. You’ll work end-to-end — from strategy and prototyping to pixel-level detail — to design scalable experiences that elevate usability, consistency, and trust across products. What You’ll Do Design and evolve platform frameworks and patterns that connect multiple Cisco products. Define the vision and execution for AI-integrated, agentic, and generative UI workflows across the platform. Apply enterprise platform thinking to create modular, extensible systems that scale across products and use cases. Collaborate deeply with Product, Engineering, and Research partners to align priorities, influence roadmaps, and deliver cohesive end-to-end journeys. Champion visual excellence, design storytelling, and collaboration, helping set a high bar for design craft and execution. Use and help advance AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows to rapidly explore concepts, create and test interactive prototypes, accelerate iteration and validation, and communicate complex platform experiences while maintaining strong standards for usability and accessibility. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master’s degree with 6+ years of related experience, or PhD with 3+ years of related experience. Experience designing enterprise platform experiences that connect multiple products or services. 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, including influencing decisions across teams or functions. Experience using AI-assisted design and/or prototyping tools as part of the product design workflow. Preferred Qualifications Experience working on system-level, cross-product platforms that power enterprise-scale solutions. Portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft, systems thinking, scalable design approaches, and clear storytelling. Excellent presentation, communication, and influencing skills across teams and functions. Advanced proficiency with AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows, including experience helping drive adoption of emerging AI tools to accelerate ideation, experimentation, prototyping, and validation. Awareness of emerging AI and UX trends, with a focus on ethical, usable, accessible, and scalable integration. 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 $171,600.00 to $245,000.00 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 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 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: $171,600.00 - $281,800.00 Non-Metro New York state & Washington state: $151,300.00 - $250,900.00 * 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.