# Principal Product Designer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $233,900.00 to $330,400.00
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This Principal Product Designer role involves shaping complex, cross-product journeys that help customers keep networks running, resolve problems faster, and deliver the connectivity their organizations depend on. The successful candidate will partner with Networking teams, using customer and market insight to identify high-value customer jobs that cross products and shape coherent experience direction.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with Networking teams to identify high-value customer jobs that cross products

- Shape coherent experience direction through narratives and prototypes

- Collaborate with teams across Cisco to ensure critical Networking customer journeys are thoughtfully designed and delivered

- Design and prototype critical parts of the experience, moving fluidly from portfolio-level direction to detailed interaction, visual design, information architecture, and data visualization

- Carry work through validation, production partnership, delivery, and iteration

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 years of related experience, or PhD + 8 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience

- Experience turning customer and market signals into product opportunities

- Portfolio demonstrating interaction design, visual design, information architecture, and prototyping

- Experience leading complex product design work across multiple teams, subject areas, or products from discovery through delivery and iteration

- Experience using AI to synthesize research, explore and prototype ideas, and validate design direction

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience bringing a clear point of view and using workshops and design exploration to align partners

- Experience influencing senior partners by making clear recommendations

- Experience raising design quality and capability through critique, mentorship, reusable practices, or design standards

- Experience applying the clarity and polish of excellent consumer products to technically complex workflows

- Experience shaping coherent experiences across products with different customer needs, levels of maturity, or deployment models

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

- 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 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

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## Skills

### Required
- interaction design
- visual design
- information architecture
- prototyping
- AI

### Nice to have
- workshops and design exploration
- influencing senior partners
- design critique
- mentorship
- design standards

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