Senior Manager, Product Design

The name ThousandEyes was born from two big ideas: the power to see things not ordinarily possible and the ability to collect insights from a multitude of vantage points. As organizations rely more on cloud services and the Internet, the network has become a black box they can't understand. Our Internet and cloud intelligence platform delivers the only collectively powered view of the Internet, cloud, and SaaS platforms, helping enterprises and service providers work together to identify problems before it impacts revenue, damages brand reputation, or halts employee productivity.

In August 2020, Cisco Systems completed the acquisition of ThousandEyes, which now forms it’s independent team within Cisco’s Networking Assurance Group and is a foundational component of Cisco’s growing Observability business.

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. As a Senior Manager in Product Design you are going to solve data visualization problems at the Internet scale. We believe in innovation, simplicity, and elegance.

This role is a combination of people management and design work. As a leader of the team, you will be responsible for building and growing a team of designers as well as the product. 

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.

We are looking for someone who can collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to make complex, technical concepts intuitive and be responsible for the design of broad areas of our product.

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.

Apply for this role if you:

• 9+ years of 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 

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. 

Why Cisco

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We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do –you can’t put us in a box! But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

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We recognize that diverse teams make the strongest teams, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

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