Product Design Manager
Cisco Meraki is the industry leader in simple, secure, intelligent networking, security and IoT platforms. We empower organizations everywhere – from local libraries to global hotels – to focus on their mission and have technology that simply works. Cisco has been named #1 Best Company to Work For in the U.S. by Fortune in 2023!
We’re looking for an experienced UX Product Design Leader to join our team who is a strategic leader with seasoned UX and people leadership skills that inspire designers, researchers and partners with a user centered approach.
You will:
- Lead designers, build UX team culture, and plan for the growth, impact, and success of the UX team within Meraki.
- Provide strategic direction over multiple UX projects and cross-product experiences.
- Work to understand the complex needs of IT administrators, help set a vision for the product grounded in those needs, and collaborate with a cross-functional team to build it iteratively.
- Roll up your sleeves and be hands on as a way to lead by example and drive direction and alignment with cross functional teams
Meraki believes the quality of our products is dependent on the quality of our teams. We place a high value on encouraging the growth and development of our people. You will be an important person to help us deliver on this promise.
While our team’s primary focus is on software, we also find opportunities to collaborate with teams across the organization and think about how to improve the entire customer journey.
You will:
- Cultivate, mentor and be responsible for your team’s professional growth. Help manage, grow, and scale our team.
- Set the tone for the team to foster an inclusive, diverse, collaborative environment.
- Set and raise the bar for design excellence by providing feedback regularly to team members on their projects.
- Inspire and teach methods that enable teams to work optimally and efficiently within cross functional teams (including Lean UX, Design Sprints, and Dual-track Agile).
- Be eager to envision, design, and promote future-state, cloud-based networking solutions.
- Balance user needs, business goals and industry insights.
- Collaborate with partners in product management and engineering to define problems and explore the highest impact solutions. Build relationships that lead to more rewarding and impactful UX engagement.
- Articulate the thinking behind your decisions, because a key part of your job will be helping your team, your product partners and leadership make informed decisions.
- Remove roadblocks, provide guidance, set up professional and personal goal development and make sure that the team is achieving the results outlined by one another.
- Champion an environment where people thrive. Encourage people and build forward momentum.
- Lead by example in creating a positive and supportive team environment that encourages collaboration, innovation, and empathetic discussion.
You are an ideal candidate if you have examples of how you’ve done some of the following:
- Manage and inspire designers.
- Designed solutions for complex domains and workflows, understanding the complexities to make them simpler and more approachable.
- Shipped well-crafted and elegant designs.
- Established relationships with product teams (including engineering and product management), grew their understanding of design, and worked cross-functionally to define and prioritize problems.
- Dug deeper to understand the user needs behind feature requests.
- Balanced exploring a space and developing a vision with shipping often and iteratively.
- Established, documented, and/or evolved a design system.
- Worked with developers to understand trade-offs and to ensure that the details are done right.
- Proactively investigated problems and proposed solutions.
- Demonstrated ability as a design leader and at least 3 years leading a team.
Does this sound like you? We’d love to hear from you! Please include a link to your online portfolio.
At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Compensation Range:
$139,000—$266,000 USD
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