UX Designer

You’ll own design work from problem framing through delivery within Cisco’s wireless product area, helping customers make confident decisions about their networks.

Responsibilities:

• Define complex problems within the wireless product area and advocate strongly for customer needs, pain points, and behaviours with product, engineering, and research partners.
• Design complete wireless workflows and consistently elevate craft quality in interaction design, visual design, and information architecture, including edge cases, errors, and recovery.
• Connect design decisions to product metrics, define meaningful success measures, and use evidence to evaluate and improve outcomes.
• Independently lead research initiatives to understand needs, test concepts, and refine designs, partnering with UX researchers as appropriate.
• Contribute significantly to design system evolution through reusable patterns and components that improve your product area.
• Adapt your process to the content and problem at hand, balancing discovery, iteration, and delivery.
• Lead through influence by communicating design rationale, facilitating workshops, and building alignment with cross-functional partners.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years of related experience, or PhD, or equivalent related work experience designing and delivering products in cross-functional teams.
• Experience designing technically complex enterprise products, particularly in networking or a related domain.
• Experience independently planning and conducting user research and applying findings to design decisions.
• Experience collaborating with product managers and engineers, explaining design decisions, and incorporating feedback through implementation.

Preferred qualifications:

• A portfolio of shipped work demonstrating interaction design, visual design, information architecture, and prototyping skills.
• Experience using AI to explore, prototype, and communicate design ideas.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
• Paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer