Principal Designer – Information Architecture

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Define information architecture frameworks, taxonomies, conceptual models, and navigation structures that support Cisco Security products and platforms. • Partner with design, product management, and engineering teams to establish consistent terminology, object models, and user experience patterns across multiple product areas. • Develop information architecture strategies that align customer outcomes with underlying security architectures and capabilities. • Create persona-based frameworks and customer journey models that inform product experiences across multiple user types and workflows. • Influence platform-level navigation, content organization, and cross-product experiences across Cisco Security surfaces and management environments.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of experience, Master’s degree and 12+ years of experience, or PhD and 8+ years of experience in information architecture, user experience design, product design, human-computer interaction, or a related field. • Experience defining information architecture frameworks, taxonomies, navigation systems, or conceptual models for enterprise software products. • Experience working with cross-functional teams that include design, product management, and engineering organizations. • Experience designing or supporting multi-product platforms, enterprise applications, cloud services, networking, security, or infrastructure software products. • Experience creating user-centered frameworks using research, personas, customer journeys, or jobs-to-be-done methodologies. • Experience supporting large-scale platform consolidation, product integration, or multi-product user experience initiatives (preferred). • Experience developing information architecture strategies for cybersecurity, networking, cloud infrastructure, identity, or enterprise software solutions (preferred). • Experience establishing governance models, controlled vocabularies, design systems, or cross-product experience standards (preferred). • Experience presenting recommendations and influencing decisions with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders (preferred). • Contributions to the user experience, information architecture, design, or technology community through publications, speaking engagements, teaching, mentoring, or professional organizations (preferred).

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • paid parental leave • short and long-term disability coverage • basic life insurance • paid time away including 10 paid holidays plus 1 floating holiday, 1 paid day off for birthday, year-end holiday shutdown, 4 paid days off for personal wellness, 16 days of paid vacation for non-exempt employees, flexible vacation time off for exempt employees, sick time off • optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer • grants of Cisco restricted stock units for eligible employees