Senior Director of Product Design, Cisco Meraki
$274.9-371.5k
+Annual bonus & Employee Stock Purchase Program
Cloud-based network platform
Job no longer available
Cloud-based network platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$274.9-371.5k
+Annual bonus & Employee Stock Purchase Program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify technology so passionate people can focus on their mission.
Role
Who you are
- Managed teams of high-performing designers
- Crafted simple solutions for complex domains and workflows
- Helped organizations understand the value of design
- Rallied teams around North Stars alongside shipping often and iteratively
- Established or evolved a design system
- Influenced product roadmaps and requirements on behalf of the customer
- Solved hard organizational challenges and managed teams through change
- 15+ years of experience as a design leader and at least 8 years managing people
What the job involves
- As our Sr.Director, Product Design for Meraki, you will lead the teams responsible for the Meraki Dashboard Platform and features that span the Meraki product line - both platform and network product teams
- The Dashboard is the face of the Meraki cloud ecosystem administrators have grown to love
- You will take Meraki Dashboard to the next level of simplicity and scale as we innovate around opportunities in AI and security to meet the needs of administrators of some of the largest networks in the world
- Above all else, success in these efforts will depend on your ability to support the team of product design managers and build strong relationships with other design, research, engineering, and product management partners
- Meraki is highly collaborative, so this role will require deep relationship-building with all teams throughout Meraki
- With security and networking business units coming closer together, this role will also require building an extensive network throughout Cisco
- Lead design for the Meraki platform/dashboard (Design team ~40)
- Lead and govern a user-centered strategy that will drive consistency, quality, and simplification and help scale Meraki for large enterprises. Take a proactive and outspoken stance on where we should focus and why
- Partner closely with other Design and Research leaders to deliver world-class enterprise solutions
- Collaborate on cross-product/convergence efforts that will impact Meraki and the other products within the networking portfolio
- Work closely with the Security and Observation BUs to help ensure that Security, Networking, and Observation Cloud Platforms work as a system. Leverage platform features where it makes sense
- Effectively drive a user-centered process within cross-functional teams. Ensure that we understand the problem space(s), clearly articulate user personas and jobs to be done, map design to user goals, design high-quality and consistent interaction models and pay attention to every last detail to ensure the best customer experience possible
- Build deep relationships with product and engineering leaders to mobilize teams, initiatives, and the organization around priorities
- Represent the design team and work in executive presentations, steering committee forums, and other senior leadership meetings
- Inspire both vision and a sense of urgency to deliver customer experiences
- Manage, mentor, and empower strategic design managers who lead Meraki product design teams. Provide direction, set clear expectations, hold the quality bar high, and ensure impact and timely outcomes
- Hire, retain, and grow talent. Work toward increased diversity
- Lead with empathy, courage, curiosity, kindness, inclusion, and a bias toward action
Application process
- Please include a link to your online portfolio
Our take
Cisco Meraki, formed from the acquisition of Meraki by Cisco in 2012, is an industry-leading cloud-managed IT company. Its technology provides unified management of mobile devices, Macs, PCs, and entire networks, all from a centralised dashboard.
Originally founded in 2006, Meraki's transformation to Cisco Meraki allowed it to reach more than 2 million active networks, and over 7 million devices globally, on top of gaining the strength of Cisco’s resources. The company has kept pace with the rise of hybrid workforces and multi-cloud environments with its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering, which bridges networking and security so that workers have seamless, secure access wherever they are working from.
Operating in a growing industry, there is plenty of opportunity for Cisco Meraki to expand its operations, and to further develop its offerings. The company supports a range of clients, encompassing roughly 75% of Fortune 500 companies, and including names such as Audi, Applebee's, and Colliers International.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2012
$40m
SERIES D
Feb 2011
$15m
SERIES C
Total funding: $80m
Company values
- Simplify everything - We simplify complex problems to make it easy for people to work with us and to work with each other.
- Care deeply - We care about what matters for our users, our partners and our colleagues. We focus on building meaningful relationships and creating great partnerships.
- Everybody in - We are a team that works as one toward our goals. We listen to each other, share ideas, and invite different opinions. Everybody is accepted and valued here.
- Be brave - We push boundaries and experiment. We learn from our experiences and failures and help each other grow. We have the grit to get the job done and we are never done getting better.
Company HQ
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Brett Hull
(Head of Engineering (Not Founder))Previously Research Associate and Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and Software Development Intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cisco Meraki
Jessica Gilbert (Head of Inclusion and Collaboration)
- We take pride in our supportive, inclusive community and work environment. Every Merakian is welcome to join our employee resource groups - Women of Meraki, Latinx, Mosaic, CAAN, and QFAM to name a few.
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