Lead Product Designer, AI and Intelligence

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the design of AI-powered product experiences across Cisco Networking platforms and products, from the initial discovery phase to launch and subsequent iterations.

• Transform unclear AI opportunities into cohesive product concepts, user flows, prototypes, and finalized experiences.

• Create AI-centric interactions that reveal pertinent information, adjust to contextual factors, facilitate decision-making, automate routine tasks, and maintain customer autonomy.

• Stay informed about advancements in AI technology and its ongoing evolution.

• Convert user objectives into data models, telemetry specifications, model training requirements, and design strategies.

• Collaborate across Networking to ensure that technical capabilities are beneficial for customers and practical for teams.

• Design adaptable experiences tailored to various personas, behaviors, workflows, and customer requirements.

• Establish reusable UX patterns for AI explanations, user control, review, correction, feedback, and complex workflows.

• Work with teams employing rapid design methodologies, AI tools, and design thinking to enhance collaboration, prototyping, and decision-making processes.

• Guide and mentor designers while elevating the quality of their craft.

⛳️ Requirements

• A portfolio demonstrating shipped AI-driven, ML-enabled, or data-centric product experiences that clearly deliver customer value and outcomes.

• Over 10 years of product design experience leading intricate enterprise, platform, or technical products from conception to delivery.

• Experience in designing AI-enabled products or ML-driven workflows, focusing on aspects such as trust, control, personalization, review, feedback, adoption, and failure states.

• Strong UX/UI competencies in interaction design, visual craftsmanship, systems thinking, and data visualization for complex workflows and decision support.

• Technical proficiency with AI, data, platform, and engineering collaborators.

• Experience in aligning teams through research, prototyping, AI tools, lean UX practices, and measurable outcomes.

• Background in mentoring designers and enhancing the quality of their craft.

• Familiarity with AI tools to explore, prototype, test, communicate, and foster collaboration.

• An online portfolio link is mandatory; applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan with a matching contribution from Cisco.

• Paid parental leave.

• Coverage for short- and long-term disabilities.

• Basic life insurance.

• Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available.

• 10 paid holidays for each full calendar year.

• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.

• 1 paid day off to celebrate the employee's birthday.

• Paid holiday shutdown at year-end.

• 4 paid days dedicated to personal wellness.

• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees.

• Flexible vacation time off program with no specified limit for eligible exempt employees.

• 80 hours of sick leave provided upon hire and each January 1st thereafter.

• Up to 80 hours of unused sick time can be carried forward annually.

• Additional paid time off for critical or emergency family matters.

• Optional 10 paid volunteer days for each full calendar year.

• Potential for annual bonuses for non-sales roles.

• Performance-based incentive pay for employees on a sales plan.

• Opportunities for growth and development.

• Team collaboration and access to a global network of experts.