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# Lead Product Designer - AI and Platform Experience

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Herndon, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $171,600.0 - $245,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Interaction Design, Cisco
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/7645F8C3D5604C0F956DB47D4B1A8F3E/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master's degree with 6+ years of related experience, or PhD with 3+ years of related experience.
 * Experience designing complex enterprise platform experiences that connect multiple products or services.
 * Experience designing and shipping AI-powered or AI-native product experiences where AI meaningfully shapes the end-user workflow.
 * Experience in interaction design, information architecture, and visual design for complex enterprise or technical environments.
 * Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Research teams from concept through delivery, including influencing product or design decisions across teams., * Experience designing AI-native products in an AI-focused company, startup, or team bringing emerging AI capabilities into production.
 * Portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft, systems thinking, scalable design approaches, and clear end-to-end storytelling.
 * Experience working on system-level, cross-product platforms that power enterprise-scale solutions.
 * Advanced proficiency with AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows to accelerate ideation, experimentation, prototyping, and validation.
 * Awareness of emerging AI and UX trends, with a focus on ethical, usable, accessible, trustworthy, and scalable integration.

## Description

As a Lead Product Designer, you'll be a senior individual contributor helping shape the product and design strategy for Cisco Cloud Control, a platform uniting multiple Cisco products under one intelligent, AI-first framework.

You'll work end-to-end - from strategy and prototyping to detailed execution - to design scalable experiences that elevate usability, consistency, and trust across products. You'll also help define how users interact with AI across the platform, creating experiences where AI is a meaningful part of the product workflow.

What You'll Do

 * Design and evolve platform frameworks and patterns that connect multiple Cisco products.
 * Define and deliver AI-powered, agentic, and generative UI experiences across the platform.
 * Apply enterprise platform thinking to create modular, extensible systems that scale across products and use cases.
 * Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Research partners to influence product direction and deliver cohesive end-to-end journeys.
 * Champion strong interaction design, visual craft, prototyping, and design storytelling while helping raise the bar for product quality and execution.
 * Use AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows to rapidly explore concepts, test ideas, accelerate iteration, and communicate complex platform experiences.