Senior UX Designer, Design Systems

The application window is expected to close on: June 17, 2025.

NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team

The Magnetic Design Systems team drives the evolution of a unified design and user experience for Cisco's enterprise product portfolio. By leveraging a centralized design systems approach, the team empowers product teams to implement consistent, reusable, and accessible components and design patterns with speed and efficiency. They are responsible for the visual direction, front-end architecture strategy, and ongoing maintenance of the design system, all while championing modern aesthetics and fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Your Impact

As a Senior UX Designer on the Magnetic Design Systems team, you will contribute to shaping a unified design language that enhances user experience across Cisco's product portfolio. This role offers the opportunity to create scalable design solutions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and lead the development of components and patterns that define our design system. By blending strategy and hands-on execution, you will help deliver a consistent, high-quality design system that empowers teams and delights users.

• Collaborate with designers, researchers, program and product managers to drive component and pattern creation, adoption, and technical implementation.
• Develop scalable design solutions that balance future-forward thinking with current technology constraints.
• Act as a "Player/Coach" by contributing hands-on design work and mentoring product designers.
• Create and maintain components, libraries, and UI patterns that align with product directions, ensuring a cohesive system.
• Document and define usage guidelines for components and patterns to support design and engineering teams.
• Partner with Engineering teams to ensure accurate implementation of components and uphold quality standards through detailed QA.
• Conduct design system audits and review designers' files to ensure proper use of Magnetic components, providing actionable feedback.
• Support stakeholders by answering questions across Magnetic support channels and hosting weekly office hours.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in UX design, with a focus on interaction design and visual design for enterprise or complex product solutions.
• 2+ years of experience in building and maintaining design systems.
• 2+ years of experience using Figma.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or contributing to a project or application using React, with an understanding of React's component-based architecture.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams.
• Experience designing for accessibility and inclusivity, including a working knowledge of WCAG standards.
• Hands-on experience with motion design, animation, or illustration, with examples of projects demonstrating these skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex challenges into simple, actionable design solutions.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put - we power the future.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with

empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.