Design Program Manager – AI Transformation, Foundations

🕒 August 5

🌵 Arizona, Colorado, +4 more states – Remote

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💵 $139.2k - $201.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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🔧 Hardware

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🏢 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

• Drive the operating model enabling Cisco Networking UX to adopt AI-assisted design practices at scale • Own program management for AI Transformation and Design Foundations initiatives, including AI methodology, governance, adoption, and cross-portfolio design readiness • Build roadmaps, milestones, risks, dependencies, and reporting mechanisms to align and progress AI-focused workstreams • Partner with Design Foundations, Design Ops, product design, research, engineering, security, AI, and product teams • Move AI initiatives from exploration to durable practice • Shape how AI work is prioritized, delivered, measured, communicated, and scaled • Create measurable outcomes and organizational change

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree plus 8 years of related experience, or Master’s degree plus 6 years of related experience, or PhD plus 3 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience • 6+ years of experience in design program management, design operations, or product operations within an outcome-focused and matrixed organization • Ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs spanning design, product, engineering, research, operations, or platform teams • Experience driving AI transformation, adoption, capability-building, or change management initiatives across multiple teams • Experience creating roadmaps, operating models, program documentation, reporting mechanisms, and decision-making processes • Understanding of product design, user-centered design methods, design systems, research, or product development workflows • Experience leveraging the latest AI tools to create and scale agents, skills, and automations • Knowledge of adoption metrics, maturity models, governance frameworks, enablement plans, or organizational change programs • Proficiency with Figma, Jira, GitHub, design systems, design tokens, research operations, or design-to-engineering workflows • Experience collaborating with security, legal, procurement, platform, or AI teams to support responsible adoption of new tools or vendors

🏖️ 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 • Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, vesting following continued employment • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • Paid birthday day off • 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 a flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit, subject to availability and business limitations • 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 • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco’s policies

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