Lead Product Designer, Cisco Meraki
Assurance
$132.9-241.2k
+ Bonus
Cloud-based network platform
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Cloud-based network platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$132.9-241.2k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify technology so passionate people can focus on their mission.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional experience designing and delivering products in cross-functional teams from strategy to delivery
- A portfolio full of great case studies and even better prototypes, including case studies leveraging AI research and design tools
- Expertise and experience designing for AI products and/or features
- Knowledge of the networking domain or experience in a related product or field is a plus
- Experience working on technically complex B2B enterprise products
- Aligned teams around customer-centered design decisions, using UX methodologies and tools (double-diamond, personas, journey mapping, dual agile, lean ux, prototypes), and influenced adoption by those who aren’t familiar with strategic UX engagements
- A proven track record of shipping large scale enterprise products
- Ability to see the bigger picture, while zooming in to rationalize and perfect the nuanced details
- Made complex problems and workflows feel simple and approachable
- Balanced strategic research and discovery with shipping often
- Persuasive storytelling and influence
- Lead and mentored junior UX designers, fostering a collaborative and innovative design culture within the team
What the job involves
- As a Product Design Lead for Networking Assurance, you have an opportunity to operate as a senior design thought-leader, collaborating with a highly skillful cross-functional team to create features that reimagine network engineers’ and other users’ workflows
- The Product Design Lead owns their projects, driving forward momentum and works with designers and cross-functional teams from across Cisco to deliver outstanding results
- In this role, you will develop and demonstrate deep domain knowledge, product expertise, and an understanding of complex customer use cases and deployment models
- You’ll deeply understand the needs of our customers, set the vision for the product grounded in those needs, and partner with cross-functional teams to build it iteratively
- Drive early discovery work, using findings to craft roadmaps, leading and designing with a team to bring it to life
- Identify the right problems to solve, run and synthesize research, sketch and prototype solutions, make hi-fi visuals
- Earn trust with cross-function partners by seeking out their points of view, collaborating regularly and inviting them into research and co-creation with the team and customers. Advocate for prioritization of design-centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis
- Present persuasively. Be able to tell the story of a project and build prototypes that precisely articulate design rationale
- Provide direction to and mentor other designers; guide team to focus on the most important customer needs, difficulties and opportunities
- Think beyond your team's goals and consider how your work affects others and how you can influence other teams’ work
- Influence the strategic vision and guide design of large, complex initiatives for a product, program or strategic effort of considerable size and scope
- Translate what may start as ambiguous business needs into clear customer-focused solutions
- Facilitate workshops, sketching and prototyping sessions; build documentation and templates that enable others to consume and contribute
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2012
$40m
SERIES D
Feb 2011
$15m
SERIES C
Total funding: $80m
Company HQ
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
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.
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