Design Program Manager, AI Transformation & Foundations

The application window is expected to close on: 12/30/2026

Meet the Team Design Foundations empowers Cisco Networking product teams—including Meraki, Catalyst, Thousand Eyes, and emerging agentic operations—to deliver coherent, credible, buildable, and AI-ready user experiences  team works horizontally across the Networking portfolio, unifying UX foundations such as design systems, design language, AI experience standards, content strategy, methodology, governance, tooling, and design quality. We are a collaborative, cross-functional group focused on enabling teams to adopt new methods, standards, and tools with clarity, consistency, and measurable impact.

What excites us is driving innovation that shapes how Cisco Networking UX embraces AI-assisted design practices and delivers durable, scalable solutions.

Your Impact Drive the operating model that enables Cisco Networking UX to adopt AI-assisted design practices  program management for AI Transformation and Design Foundations initiatives, including AI methodology, governance, adoption, and cross-portfolio design readiness. Build roadmaps, milestones, risks, dependencies, and reporting mechanisms to keep AI-focused work streams 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.

Minimum Qualifications Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of experience related experience, PhD + 3 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience6+ 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, Git Hub, 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.

Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

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