# Program Manager, AI Transformation and Design Foundations

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,200.00 - $201,400.00
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the Design Foundations team at Cisco, empowering Networking product teams to deliver coherent, credible, buildable, and AI-ready user experiences at scale.

As a Program Manager, AI Transformation and Design Foundations, you will drive the operating model that enables Cisco Networking UX to adopt AI-assisted design practices at scale. You will own program management for AI Transformation and Design Foundations initiatives, including AI methodology, governance, adoption, and cross-portfolio design readiness.

Key responsibilities:

- Build roadmaps, milestones, risks, dependencies, and reporting mechanisms to keep AI-focused workstreams aligned and progressing.

- Partner across Design Foundations, Design Ops, product design, research, engineering, security, AI, and product teams to move AI initiatives from exploration to durable practice.

- Shape how AI work is prioritized, delivered, measured, communicated, and scaled to create measurable outcomes and organizational change.

Requirements:

- Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of experience, PhD + 3 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience.

- 6+ years of experience in design program management, design operations, product operations, within an outcome-focused and matrixed organization.

- Ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs spanning design, product, engineering, research, operations, or platform teams.

- Experience driving AI transformation, adoption, capability-building, or change management initiatives across multiple teams.

- Experience in creating roadmaps, operating models, program documentation, reporting mechanisms, and decision-making processes.

- Understanding of product design, user-centered design methods, design systems, research, or product development workflows.

- Experience with leveraging latest AI tools to create and scale agents, skills, and automations.

Preferred qualifications:

- Knowledge of adoption metrics, maturity models, governance frameworks, enablement plans, or organizational change programs.

- Proficiency with Figma, Jira, GitHub, design systems, design tokens, research operations, or design-to-engineering workflows.

- Experience collaborating with security, legal, procurement, platform, or AI teams to support responsible adoption of new tools or vendors.

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.

- Paid time away, including 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.

Salary range: $139,200.00 - $201,400.00 per year

## Skills

### Required
- AI transformation
- design program management
- design operations
- product operations
- roadmap creation
- operating models
- program documentation
- reporting mechanisms
- decision-making processes
- product design
- user-centered design methods
- design systems
- research
- product development workflows
- AI tools

### Nice to have
- adoption metrics
- maturity models
- governance frameworks
- enablement plans
- organizational change programs
- Figma
- Jira
- GitHub
- design tokens
- research operations
- design-to-engineering workflows

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