Product Designer

Cisco Systems’ Networking organization is building intelligent network solutions that help organizations securely connect users, devices, applications, and workloads everywhere. In the Cisco Wireless UX organization, the Product Designer will shape wireless product experiences by owning design work across the full journey, from framing problems through delivery.

This onsite role in San Francisco, CA supports the wireless product area through workflow design, research-informed recommendations, and close collaboration with product, engineering, data/AI, and platform partners.

Role scope

As a Product Designer in Cisco Wireless UX, you will define and drive wireless design work, connecting interaction design, visual design, and information architecture to measurable outcomes. The focus includes designing wireless workflows end-to-end, leading research initiatives when needed, and helping teams ship advanced technical capabilities in ways that are useful, trustworthy, and shippable.

Responsibilities

• Define complex wireless product problems and advocate for customer needs, pain points, and behaviors with product, engineering, and research partners.
• Design complete wireless workflows while raising craft quality across interaction design, visual design, and information architecture, including edge cases, errors, and recovery.
• Link design decisions to product metrics by defining meaningful success measures and using evidence to evaluate and improve outcomes.
• Independently lead research initiatives to understand needs, test concepts, and refine designs in partnership with UX researchers as appropriate.
• Advance design system evolution by contributing reusable patterns and components that improve your product area.
• Adjust the approach based on the content and problem at hand, balancing discovery, iteration, and delivery.
• Lead through influence by communicating design rationale, facilitating workshops, and building alignment across cross-functional partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of related experience (or Master's + 3 years, or a PhD, or equivalent related work experience designing and delivering products in cross-functional teams).
• Experience designing technically complex enterprise products, especially in networking or a related domain.
• Experience independently planning and conducting user research and translating findings into design decisions.
• Experience partnering with product managers and engineers, explaining design decisions, and incorporating feedback during implementation.

Preferred qualifications

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

Compensation and schedule

• Salary range: USD 124,000 - 226,000 per year.
• Location: San Francisco, CA (onsite).
• Application window expected to close: 01/28/2027.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance (U.S. employees, subject to eligibility rules).
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution (U.S. employees).
• Paid parental leave (U.S. employees).
• Short and long-term disability coverage (U.S. employees).
• Basic life insurance (U.S. employees).
• 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 determined by Cisco.
• Non-exempt employees: 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (accrued at 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees).
• Exempt employees: participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program (no defined limit on vacation eligible employees may use).
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward.
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
• Non-sales roles: eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
• Potential eligibility for grants of Cisco restricted stock units that vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods.

Team context

• Cisco Networking provides intelligent network solutions that securely connect users, devices, applications, and workloads everywhere.
• Cisco Wireless UX, part of Cisco Networking UX, shapes wireless product experiences to help customers understand, monitor, and configure wireless services across their networks.
• The work is done closely with product, engineering, data/AI, and platform partners to make advanced technical capabilities useful, trustworthy, and shippable.
• Cisco emphasizes the growth and development of team members.

U.S. and/or Canada applicant notice

• The starting salary range posted for this position is $138,100.00 to $196,500.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits.
• Individual pay is determined by hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.
• U.S. employees are offered benefits subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules.
• Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock units that vest following continued employment for defined periods.
• For non-sales roles, employees may also be eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
• Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of base salary, subject to the applicable Cisco plan.
• Applicable full salary ranges by state are listed below:

• New York City Metro Area: $138,100.00 - $226,000.00
• Non-Metro New York state and Washington state: $124,000.00 - $201,000.00
• For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, ranges include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
• Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.