The application window is expected to close on: 12/30/2026
Meet the TeamDesign Foundations empowers Cisco Networking product teams-including Meraki, Catalyst, ThousandEyes, and emerging agentic operations-to deliver coherent, credible, buildable, and AI-ready user experiences at scale. Our team works horizontally across the Networking portfolio, unifying UX foundations such as design systems, design language, AI experience standards, content strategy, methodology, governance, tooling, and design quality. We are a collaborative, cross-functional group focused on enabling teams to adopt new methods, standards, and tools with clarity, consistency, and measurable impact. What excites us is driving innovation that shapes how Cisco Networking UX embraces AI-assisted design practices and delivers durable, scalable solutions.
Your ImpactDrive the operating model that enables 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 keep AI-focused workstreams aligned and progressing. Partner across Design Foundations, Design Ops, product design, research, engineering, security, AI, and product teams to move AI initiatives from exploration to durable practice. Shape how AI work is prioritized, delivered, measured, communicated, and scaled to create measurable outcomes and organizational change.
Minimum Qualifications- Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of experience related experience, PhD + 3 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience
- 6+ years of experience in design program management, design operations, 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 in 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 with leveraging latest AI tools to create and scale agents, skills, and automations
Preferred Qualifications- 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.
