Head of Product Design

Responsibilities

• 🌟 Lead, manage & grow a team of designers along with owning design projects from conception to delivery.
• 🌟 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.
• 🌟 Design, conduct and synthesize user research activities to help 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.

Skills

• 15+ years of design experience with demonstrated success with cloud-native, enterprise/SaaS data-intensive products
• 8+ years of experience building, growing & managing teams
• Experience and/or passion for working with data visualization
• 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

Benefits

• 🌟 The starting salary range posted for this position is $280,100.00 to $384,800.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits
• 🌟 Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training
• 🌟 The full salary range for certain locations is listed below
• 🌟 For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process
• 🌟 U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance
• 🌟 Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks
• 🌟 Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time
• 🌟 U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
  • 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
  • Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
  • Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next
  • Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
  • For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies
  • Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan
  • For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
  • .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
  • 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
  • 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
  • Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation
  • For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target
  • Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid
  • For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined
  • Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements

Company

Cisco

Location

Austin, TX

Salary

$280k - $385k yearly

Arrangement

Onsite

Application

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