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