Product Design Lead, Cisco Meraki
Platform
$121.2-232.9k
Salary dependent on location. Plus stock options
Cloud-based network platform
Job no longer available
Cloud-based network platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$121.2-232.9k
Salary dependent on location. Plus stock options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify technology so passionate people can focus on their mission.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of professional experience designing and delivering technically complicated enterprise or consumer products with cross-functional teams from strategy to delivery
- Has a portfolio that includes repeated history of simplifying complicated customer journeys and systems. Strong persuasive storytelling and influence, visual design skills, and a highly polished level of craft. Examples where generative research drove north star opportunities, and brought them to customers through iterative releases, where you worked to influence cross domain partnerships with customers needs
- Knowledge of the networking domain or experience in a related product or field is a plus
- 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
- Ability to operate at different altitudes: from high level strategy to granular page level designs
- Made complicated problems and workflows feel simple and approachable
- The ability to strike a balance between discovery and delivery and pivoting to meet the team and product needs
- Lead and mentored junior UX designers, fostering a collaborative and innovative design culture within the team
What the job involves
- As a Design Lead for Meraki Features and Landing Experiences, you'll drive the design of the Home Screen and Search experiences within the Meraki Dashboard
- You’ll shape the vision for these foundational experiences, collaborate across teams to drive alignment, and deliver elegant solutions
- 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
- Our team's primary focus is on software, but we also find opportunities to collaborate with teams across the organization and think about how to improve the entire customer journey. Meraki believes the quality of our products is dependent on the quality of our teams
- We place a high value on nurturing the growth and development of everyone on our team. We give and get feedback early and often, share what we know, and learn from each other
- Through UX methodologies, drive early discovery work, using findings to craft short, mid, long-term delivery roadmaps, leading and designing with a team to bring it to life
- Design products: 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 invite 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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