Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $9 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience. Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.
At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe fostering an inclusive environment where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome is essential for driving creativity and innovation.
Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest quality and performance standards in everything we do.
Job DescriptionWho You’ll Work With
As a key member of the UX Design team for CloudVision you will be deeply integrated into the product development lifecycle, with a focus on making common workflows more accessible to new users. You will work closely with the development team, with many opportunities to define both how the product should work and what the product should do. We are looking for a passionate advocate for new and innovative ways to make CloudVision accessible; someone who is enthusiastic about well-crafted design.
What You’ll Do
- Working with the UX Design team, Engineering & Product Management to develop new design solutions
- Conducting user research and usability testing to ensure all designs meet client and user requirements
- Analyzing all research and feedback to gain user insight – and incorporate this feedback into new designs
- Assisting in the production of wireframes, low fidelity interactive prototypes, concept sketches, interaction designs and user flows
- Helping to create clean and simple user-centered designs
- Effectively presenting design ideas to geographically dispersed teams and explaining the decision process
- Providing usable design assets including style specifications for use by engineers
- Individuals interested in applying for this position must meet the following requirements.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience as a UX designer, preferably for networking/ enterprise Web applications, with a compelling portfolio that you can showcase
- Skilled in Figma, Adobe tools, Sketch , or any other
- Self-motivated individual who takes initiatives and flourish in a fast-paced iterative, and deadline-driven work environment
- Highly creative individual with a passion for user-centered design, fluency in contemporary design aesthetics, best practices, eye for details and finesse
- Ability to quickly grasp and analyze complex UX design issues and distill them into clean and simple solutions
- Good organization and communication (spoken and written English) skills
- Experience in responsive UI design for mobile-friendly web applications
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Design or related field
- Human Computer Interaction (HCI) degree/certification or related experience would be a big plus
Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.
We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.
Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.
Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of hands-on UX design experience
- Compelling UX design portfolio
- Proficiency with Figma, Adobe tools, Sketch, or comparable design tools
- Experience designing responsive, mobile-friendly web applications
- Strong user-centered design, research, usability testing, and interaction design skills
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Design or a related field
- HCI degree or certification or related experience
Arista Networks Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Arista Networks and has not been reviewed or approved by Arista Networks.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is positioned as generous, including unlimited PTO, paid holidays, and flexible hours with hybrid options. Parental leave is also included, supporting time off needs beyond standard vacation.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is a notable component of rewards through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan with a discount. This structure can materially increase total compensation when stock performance is favorable.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Everyday perks and wellness supports are broad, including on-site gym/showers, secured bike storage, stocked break rooms, discounted lunches, wellness webinars, and social events. Family-planning benefits add to lifestyle and wellbeing coverage.
Arista Networks Insights
What We Do
Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software driven cloud networking solutions for large datacenter storage and computing environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds from 10 to 400 gigabits per second, redefine scalability, agility and resilience. Arista has shipped more than 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Committed to open standards, Arista is a founding member of the 25/50GbE consortium. Arista Networks products are available worldwide directly and through partners.
