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Meet the Team

As part of the Secure Access Security Design distributed team, you will collaborate with fellow product designers, researchers, strategists, product managers, software engineers, and data analysts. You will have the opportunity to bring your knowledge and passion for building phenomenal user experiences and take it to a new level. You will partner with User Research, other UX/UI Designers, Product Mangers, Engineering, Technical Marketing Engineers and Program Managers to create design solutions which serve Cisco’s customer needs for a seamless, intuitive, elegant and innovative product experience.

Your Impact

In this role, you will drive the integration of user-centered design into the organization's thinking and processes. You will lead significant, multi-quarter initiatives that align with the top priorities of the Security business. By demonstrating your domain expertise and working closely with multi-functional teams, you will help shape the overall product strategy. You will actively advocate for a Human-Centered Design approach and foster a collaborative environment. This critical Product Designer position focuses on creating user experience strategies and designs.

Manages scalable product design throughout the lifecycle, considering scalability and adaptability across products and customer journeys and coordinates teams to enhance user experiences based on customer insights. Not fazed by ambiguity, sets visions, inspires others, and uses insights, data, and research to generate growth and impact for the organization. Balances groundwork for new problem spaces with outstanding execution as needed. Develops principles and frameworks grounded in customer insights, measures with customer data, and leads with a strong point of view. Builds positive relationships across the organization, striving to set standards and lead effective positive change. Mentors others, maintains a positive attitude, contributes to team respect, and pushes designers to improve while educating the broader organization about Design's business impact.

Minimum Qualifications:

8+ years designing user experience for interactive consumer or enterprise applications. Demonstrated experience presenting design goals, processes, and vision to senior leadership. Experience in conceptual development and rapid creative prototyping to include tactical UI design and implementation. Experience with design tools (e.g. Figma and Sketch) and be prepared to present a portfolio showcasing user-centered design. Experience in leading design projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive product strategy. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong skills in communication, collaboration, presentation, and leadership, with a proven ability to influence others through critical thinking and consistently meet tight deadlines. Deep understanding of user experience, using business rationale to inform designs; knowledge in the Security domain and enterprise UX is a plus. Independent, self-motivated, and possesses qualities of being intentional, purposeful, bold, and humble. Experienced in collaborating closely with Project Managers, Engineers, and others to bring a design-centric perspective, creating scalable design solutions within current technology constraints. Skilled in defining and implementing user experience guidelines while adhering to industry and platform standards.

Why Cisco Secure

We're global, we're adaptable, we're diverse, and our security portfolio is as extensive as it is groundbreaking. Have you heard of Threat, Detection & Response, Zero Trust by Duo, Common Services Engineering, or Cloud & Network Security? Those are only a few of our product teams! The only thing we're missing is YOU.

Join an enterprise security leader with a start-up culture, committed to driving innovation and giving you the opportunity to make an impact. We #InnovateToWin and we know we're better together, that's why we're dedicated to inclusivity, collaboration, and diversity in everything we do.

We're proud to be the Best Small and Mid-Size Enterprises Security Solution Cisco Secure continues to grow and evolve year after year with 100% of Fortune 100 Companies using our products, and we're excited to see the new heights we'll reach with your passion for security, your customer focus, and your desire to change things up!

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