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.
- 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.
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.
Skills Required
- 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 networking 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
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- 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 using AI tools to improve efficiency and work documentation
- Knowledge of accessibility principles and interaction design
- Ability to mentor developing designers and share design practices
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad, with medical options including PPOs, high-deductible plans, and regional HMOs. Feedback suggests robust wellness and mental-health resources, with some locations offering on-site support and second medical opinions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is highlighted through paid holidays, paid time off, and additional recharge days such as “Days for Me,” with generous volunteer time also mentioned. Feedback suggests these programs help support rest, volunteering, and critical life events.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support appears extensive, including paid child-bonding leave, family medical leave, and caregiving resources. Observations also point to family-planning assistance and adoption or surrogacy support in some regions.
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What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
