Lead Product Designer - AI and Platform

Position: Lead Product Designer - AI and Platform Experience
The application window is expected to close on: 10/25/2026

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This role is a  Remote, US  but a strong preference for candidates from San Francisco or San Jose locations. Meet the Team Cisco’s Platform Experience Group is redefining how users interact with Cisco’s products by building the foundation for AI-powered, agentic experiences and generative UI that scale across the portfolio. You’ll be a core member of the design team for Cisco Cloud Control — a high-visibility, next-generation enterprise platform connecting Cisco’s security, networking, and AI product lines.

It’s also the home of AI Canvas, one of Cisco’s top priorities. The team is small, dynamic, and deeply collaborative. Designers here work closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers to deliver platform experiences that feel unified across the Cisco ecosystem, combining systems thinking with strong visual craft and execution.  Your Impact 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.

Minimum Qualifications 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.

Preferred Qualifications  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.

Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond.…