Lead Product Designer, IoT

Networking Platform

Cisco Networking is an industry leader providing intelligent network solutions for organizations to securely connect users, devices, applications, and workloads everywhere. We empower organizations everywhere – from local libraries to global hotels – to focus on their mission and have technology that simply works. Cisco has been named #1 Best Company to Work For in the U.S. by Fortune in 2023!

What We Are Looking For

The IoT team is on a mission to transform our customers’ physical spaces through our cloud-managed smart sensors and cameras, creating an intelligent, resilient, secure, and sustainable workplace. As a Design Lead, you’ll apply a range of skills including workshop facilitation, UI design and concept visualization to drive a user-centered approach. As a partner to Product and Engineering leads, you’ll bring clarity through strong visual storytelling that influences strategy and aligns internal partners.

In this role, you will develop deep domain knowledge, product expertise, and an understanding of complex customer use cases. You'll set a vision based on customer needs and collaborate with cross-functional teams to build iteratively. Your affinity for collaboration and design thinking will guide you in crafting innovative solutions.

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.

Responsibilities

• Understand the user journeys across our various IoT user personas including IT professionals, building operations managers, and physical security staff.
• Craft solutions to simplify everyday IoT use cases, identify key issues, conduct research, prototype, and produce high-fidelity visuals.
• 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.
• Earn trust with cross-functional 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 designers; guide the team towards 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 to empower others.

You're an ideal candidate if you have:

• 8+ years of professional experience designing and delivering products in cross-functional teams from strategy to delivery.
• Experience designing for IoT devices, such as sensors or cameras.
• Knowledge of the networking domain or experience in a related product or field is a plus.
• Experience working on 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 consistent 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.
• Led and mentored junior UX designers, encouraging a collaborative and innovative design culture within the team.

Does this sound like you? We’d love to hear from you!

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