Senior Design Strategist

🔥 15 hours ago

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $130.6k - $182.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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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 Strategic Foundations: Develop product roadmaps, Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), information architecture, and user flows that provide clear direction for product development. • Prioritize with Rigor: Apply desirability, feasibility, and viability frameworks to shape scope early and align stakeholders on MVP requirements. • Lead Discovery & Facilitation: Facilitate workshops and decision forums across Executives, Service Owners, PMs, IT/Ops, and P&C partners to drive consensus. • Implement Lightweight Research: Conduct rapid surveys, interviews, and validation studies to de-risk investments and inform direction. • Prototype & Visualize: Produce lo-fi concepts using our new Design System. • Drive System Evolution: Identify gaps and advocate for new features within the Design System. • Orchestrate Design Specialists: Engage UX Researchers and Designers at the optimal stages. • Ensure Quality & Accessibility: Prioritize ease of use, high quality, and digital accessibility (#a11y) in all product solutions.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of related experience, or Master's degree with 4+ years of related experience • Background in product/UX strategy, service design, or systems thinking • Strong command of core UX skills & capabilities (Interaction, Visual, Research, Content, and Information Architecture) • Proficiency in industry-standard design and research tools (e.g., Figma for prototyping, Maze for rapid user testing) • Proven track record to drive decisions across cross-functional teams (Executives, P&C, IT, Service Owners) • Expertise in scoping, sequencing, roadmapping, and metrics-tied outcomes • Experience using design systems to build products and a proactive desire to contribute to their growth and feature development

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance • a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • paid parental leave • short and long-term disability coverage • basic life insurance • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday • paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid days off for personal wellness • Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year • Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer • employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses and performance-based incentive pay