Who We Are
Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network – even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues – before they impact end- user experiences.
ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.
About The Role
At ThousandEyes, we are fanatical about design. Our product is built to visualize the Internet and the services that flow across it. The Internet is a massive distributed system with thousands of networks at its core, serving half of the human population. Creating the interface and experiences that bring clarity to something that complex is no small task. By joining ThousandEyes, you and your Product Design team are going to solve data visualization problems at the Internet scale as well as user interactions and needs within the enterprise. You will make complex, technical concepts intuitive and be responsible for the design of broad areas of our product.
We believe success comes from collaboration, data-driven decision making, and delivering elegant solutions for our users.
Lead
This role is a combination of people management and design work and is scoped for the UK timezone, reporting to the Chief Design Officer for ThousandEyes on the west coast of the USA. As the Senior Manager, Product Design you will be responsible for building and growing our EMEA footprint of designers and researchers as well as being the Product Design Lead for Endpoint, a key strategic initiative. You will also be in close collaboration across Cisco Design as we move forward with initiatives that will build a stronger and more vibrant Cisco ecosystem.
Deliver
As a Senior Manager, Product Design you will work with our customers, engineers, product management, and customer success to determine design requirements, create mockups, user workflows, do user research, and provide feedback to constantly improve our product. You will be part of the full product development cycle, from strategic user decisions to pixel-perfect design delivery.
Grow
No matter who you are or where you are from, there is always something to learn and something you can teach. This is a great place to do that. Come be your best self and help others do the same.
What You'll Do
- Lead, manage & grow a team of designers along with owning design projects from conception to delivery.
- Scope, staff and run both strategic and tactical work, always looking left-to-right and bringing others along.
- Partner with PM and Dev to define processes that increase velocity without sacrificing quality.
- Hire, mentor and be responsible for the growth and development of designers within the team organization.
- Create user journeys, wireframes, detailed UX flows, prototypes, UI mockups, sketches, visuals, decks, and explanations that promote understanding and alignment with cross functional teams.
- Simplify complexities around data visualization, helping our users get actionable insights seamlessly.
- Iterate based on feedback from a broad range of team members, users, and subject matter experts. Give and receive feedback in regular reviews and critiques with designers.
- Build a thorough understanding of the technology and influence the product strategy.
- Guide your team to conduct and synthesize user research and help them build a deep understanding of our users and address usability issues.
- Drive design decisions based on data from user metrics as well as qualitative interviews.
- Effectively communicate design concepts to a range of stakeholders and audiences within the team as well as across the company. Build consensus and balance different priorities while dealing with ambiguity.
- Initiate ideas and solutions beyond the product roadmap to improve the overall experience for our users.
Qualifications
- 9+ years of product design experience, ideally with demonstrated success in enterprise/SaaS software products. 3+ years of experience building, growing & managing teams.
- Experience and/or passion for working with data visualization
- Have a strong portfolio that showcases your design work
- Can articulate the reasoning behind your design decisions
- Can think through user problems while understanding technical constraints
- Self-learner with aptitude for understanding complex, technical concepts
- Experience conducting and participating user research activities
Please be sure to include your portfolio link and password in order to be considered for this role.
Cisco values the perspectives and skills that emerge from employees with diverse backgrounds. That's why Cisco is expanding the boundaries of discovering top talent by not only focusing on candidates with educational degrees and experience but also placing more emphasis on unlocking potential. We believe that everyone has something to offer and that diverse teams are better equipped to solve problems, innovate, and create a positive impact.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification. Research shows that people from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy. We urge you not to prematurely exclude yourself and to apply if you're interested in this work.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
