Staff Interaction Designer

Applies advanced expertise in interaction design, visual design, and motion to create intuitive, accessible, and consistent experiences across complex enterprise software products.

About Cisco

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Responsibilities

• Develops solutions aligned with Cisco Design Thinking Principles, with a focus on simplification, usability, and user experience.
• Partners with Product Design, Design Systems, Engineering, Research, and Product Management to address complex usability challenges and establish scalable interaction patterns.
• Uses advanced prototyping techniques to explore, validate, and communicate interaction concepts, ensuring that motion and interface behaviors improve user comprehension, navigation, and efficiency.
• Provides design leadership across multiple product areas, influences interaction design practices and standards, and mentors other designers to elevate the overall quality and consistency of product experiences.
• You'll Do Uses specialized expertise in interaction design, visual design, and motion to solve complex user experience challenges and recommend best practices across products.
• Leads the design of sophisticated interactions, transitions, and interface behaviors that improve usability, wayfinding, feedback, and user comprehension.
• Applies strong visual design principles and exceptional attention to detail to create intuitive, consistent, and high-quality product experiences.
• Identifies opportunities to simplify complex workflows and information-dense interfaces through thoughtful interaction design and purposeful motion.
• Leads interaction design initiatives spanning multiple product teams, balancing user needs, technical feasibility, accessibility, and business objectives.
• Influences product design direction by identifying opportunities for innovation and advocating for interaction improvements that address customer needs.
• Partners with Design Systems teams to establish and evolve reusable interaction patterns, motion principles, and component behaviors, improving consistency and scalability across products.
• Explores innovative approaches to data visualization and interactive dashboards, helping users interpret complex information, understand changes, and navigate between different levels of detail.
• Creates advanced interactive prototypes to communicate design intent, evaluate interaction concepts, and support design and engineering decisions.
• Collaborates closely with Engineering to translate interaction concepts into production-ready experiences, considering implementation constraints, performance, and accessibility.
• Defines and documents interaction specifications, behavioral guidelines, and motion patterns to support consistent implementation across teams.
• Articulates and advocates for design decisions based on user needs, usability principles, product context, and technical considerations.
• Establishes success criteria and partners with Research and Product teams to evaluate interaction effectiveness through usability testing, customer feedback, and relevant product metrics.
• Mentors and coaches designers, strengthening interaction design, motion, visual craft, and advanced prototyping capabilities across the organization.
• Facilitates knowledge sharing through design critiques, workshops, demonstrations, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Explores emerging design technologies, including AI-assisted prototyping and design-to-code workflows, to improve design exploration and collaboration with Engineering.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of related professional experience, Master's degree with 6+ years, or equivalent practical experience in Interaction Design, Product Design, UX Design, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and delivering sophisticated interactions and high-quality visual experiences for digital products.
• Advanced conceptual and practical knowledge of interaction design principles, including affordances, feedback, interface states, transitions, information hierarchy, and progressive disclosure.
• Strong understanding of motion design principles and their application to functional, production-ready user interfaces.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma and experience developing high-fidelity interactive prototypes to explore and communicate complex interface behaviors.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft, thoughtful interaction design, purposeful motion, and experience delivering solutions in real products.
• Experience working with design systems, reusable components, and interaction patterns across multiple product areas.
• Understanding of accessibility principles, including designing for reduced motion, performance, and diverse user needs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex design initiatives, influence cross-functional decisions, and collaborate effectively with Product Management, Engineering, and Research.
• Experience mentoring other designers, communicating design rationale, and contributing to improved design practices across teams.

Preferred

• Qualifications Experience designing complex enterprise software, B2B SaaS applications, developer tools, or data-intensive products.
• Experience designing interactions for data visualizations, analytical dashboards, or complex information exploration workflows.
• Familiarity with frontend technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and SVG, and an understanding of how interactions and animations are implemented in production applications.
• Experience building functional prototypes using code or advanced prototyping tools such as Framer, ProtoPie, Rive, or similar technologies.
• Experience contributing to or influencing design systems, particularly interaction guidelines, motion standards, and component behaviors.
• Experience establishing interaction design practices, coaching other designers, and raising design quality across multiple teams.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted design, rapid prototyping, and design-to-code workflows.
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