Product Designer

Meet the team

Our team is dedicated to designing innovative features for Cisco products, focusing on creating user-centered designs that enhance customer experience. We play a critical role in bridging the gap between user needs and engineering execution, ensuring that our solutions are both practical and impactful. The team is composed of skilled designers, researchers, and cross-functional collaborators who foster a dynamic and inclusive environment. What makes our team exciting is the opportunity to influence cutting-edge technology and deliver designs that directly improve how customers interact with Cisco’s products.

Your impact

Execute design tasks for specific product features to create usable designs, concepts, and prototypes that drive product success. Collaborate cross-functionally to identify user problems and gather insights that inform design improvements. Facilitate requirements sessions with engineers to ensure design specifications meet user needs. Apply user-centered methodologies and research to validate concepts and enhance product usability. Deliver and defend customer-centered design presentations to internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment and advocacy for the user experience.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of related experience, or Master’s degree plus 3 years of related experience, or PhD with no required experience
• Proficient knowledge in one or more domains such as network or security
• Experience executing design tasks and creating prototypes for product features
• Ability to facilitate requirements sessions and collaborate with engineering teams
• Skilled in applying user-centered design methodologies and research
• Experience using Figma or similar design tools to create concepts, prototypes, and design specifications.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong communication and presentation skills to effectively deliver design concepts
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder relationships
• Ability to analyze customer insights and translate them into actionable design improvements
• Familiarity with content templates, samples, and design guidelines development
• Adaptability to evolving business needs and design challenges
• Interest in keeping current with AI tools and applying them thoughtfully to improve efficiency and streamline design and work documentation processes.
• Knowledge of accessibility principles and interaction design is a plus.
• Ability to mentor developing designers and share design practices with the team.

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.

Why Cisco?

Cisconians power the future. We make impact as a team, innovating fast and fearlessly to create meaningful solutions on a large scale. The depth and breadth of our technology doesn't just benefit our customers – it also means limitless opportunities for us to experiment and learn. We understand the power each of our unique backgrounds bring when we work together. Because of that, we have a global network of thinkers, doers, experts, and curious creators who help one another do their life’s best work.