Lead Product Designer
Cisco Systems, Inc. | |
$168,800.00 to $241,200.00
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life insurance, vision insurance, parental leave, paid holidays, sick time, 401(k)
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United States, California, San Jose | |
170 W Tasman Dr (Show on map) | |
Nov 20, 2025 | |
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The application window is expected to close on December 1, 2025 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. Note: This role can be performed from anywhere within the United States. Meet the TeamCisco'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 will be one of two founding designers for Cisco Cloud Control, a next-generation enterprise platform that connects Cisco's security, networking, and AI products.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 seamless user experiences that feel unified across the Cisco ecosystem - combining systems thinking with exceptional visual craft, graphic design depth, and meticulous page-layout execution. Your Impact
As a Lead Product Designer, you'll be a hands-on design leader defining the foundational experience for Cisco Cloud Control. You'll work end-to-end - from strategy and prototyping to pixel-perfect, highly polished visual execution - creating scalable experiences that elevate usability, clarity, and trust across products. This role requires someone with world-class visual and interaction craft, capable of transforming complex enterprise workflows into elegant, modern, editorial-quality interfaces. You will set the bar for visual design excellence across the suite and influence how Cisco expresses its next generation of AI-powered experiences. Key Responsibilities:
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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 $168,800.00 to $241,200.00 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:
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:
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: $168,800.00 - $277,400.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state: $148,800.00 - $248,200.00* 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. | |
$168,800.00 to $241,200.00
life insurance, vision insurance, parental leave, paid holidays, sick time, 401(k)
Nov 20, 2025