Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Applications will be reviewed the week of July 6th.
Location: Remote, US
Please submit a portfolio when applying.
Meet the Team
The Talent Marketing team at Cisco is a small but mighty group responsible for shaping how the world perceives Cisco as a place to work. We function as a full-funnel marketing engine, running global paid media campaigns, creating compelling content across digital and in-person touch points, and enabling our recruiting teams to attract highly technical talent. And we do it all through a highly collaborative culture where we truly have each other’s backs.
What You’ll Do
We are looking for a Digital Marketing Designer to help shape the future of Cisco’s digital candidate experience as we grow and evolve our talent brand. You will act as the bridge between our talent brand creative, the candidate experience, and technical infrastructure of our Careers website.
Drive Design Execution: Lead the overhaul of Cisco’s careers site, translating complex requirements into high-quality visual designs.
Evolve UX Strategy: Enhance the candidate journey by mapping user flows and defining logical site structures as our site grows to ensure a clear, scalable pathway for candidates.
Activate our visual Talent Branding: Applying our new talent brand creative across a variety of touchpoints—from social media to recruiter templates—ensuring everything we create is visually compelling and brand-aligned.
Foster Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with the Cisco Brand team, the People & Communities UX Design team, and other tech leads to ensure our digital presence remains consistent with our evolving global design systems.
Product Ownership: Serve as the internal expert for our Phenom CMS, staying at the forefront of platform releases and new functionalities to maximize our digital capabilities.
Careers site Innovation: Proactively identify and implement AI-enhanced technologies to improve site efficiency, content quality, and long-term scalability.
Key Tasks
These are the day-to-day responsibilities that keep our digital ecosystem running smoothly and effectively.
Phenom CMS Management: Build, maintain, and evolve web pages and job descriptions pages, manage publishing workflows, and build out the scalable structure of the careers site.
Technical Maintenance & Troubleshooting: Act as the primary technical resource for the Careers site. Resolve complex bugs, manage the ticketing process, and coordinate with support teams to ensure seamless delivery.
Website Personalization & UX: Review and audit competitor sites and refine the candidate experience across our careers site pages. Build user-friendly, targeted journeys that drive profile creations, email sign ups, and applications.
Creative Production: Use Figma and Adobe Creative Suite to create and adapt digital assets. This includes both building libraries and defining foundational design systems, as well as getting in-the-weeds to adjust layouts, resize images, and optimize graphics for web performance and responsiveness.
Performance Monitoring: Own the technical health of the site. Monitor uptime, page speed, and crawlability, proactively identifying and fixing issues to maintain optimal performance.
Email & Automation Development: Re-design our approach to email along the hiring journey. Create scalable, on-brand email templates, and develop them within the Phenom CRM, including coding, testing, and troubleshooting.
Analytics & Reporting: Build and maintain dashboards that track website, email, and marketing channel performance, using data-driven insights to recommend and implement continuous improvements.
Site & AI Functionality: Advance our careers site functionality including an enhanced search experience and AI chat bot.
Accessibility Leadership: Prioritize digital accessibility (#a11y) across all touch points. Manage our relationship with the Office of Accessibility to ensure all new functionality meets and exceeds WCAG standards.
Minimum Qualifications
Typically: Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of related experience, or Master's degree with 2+ years of related experience.
Possess strong foundational UX Skills and Capabilities including Information Architecture, Visual Design, Content Design, and UI Design.
Experience building marketing assets or tools within a brand design system using Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite.
Hands-on experience building in Content Management Systems (CMS) or similar web publishing platforms.
Understanding of front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS concepts) to effectively implement designs and collaborate with engineers.
Knowledge of web accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and experience designing inclusive experiences.
Strong organizational, project, and time management skills including using tools like Airtable and ServiceNow.
Preferred Qualifications
Advanced proficiency in Figma's advanced features (e.g., Figma Make, Figma MCP Server) including experience working with and contributing to Design Systems built in Figma.
Direct experience building, maintaining, and optimizing Career Sites or other web experiences using SaaS products like Phenom or Workday Recruiting.
Demonstrable understanding of UX writing principles and content strategy.
Familiarity with web analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics) to inform and measure design impact.
Exposure to or interest in designing for AI/ML-powered features or understanding ethical AI design principles.
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.
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.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:The starting salary range posted for this position is $112,000.00 to $141,100.00 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 of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to 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.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$136,000.00 - $197,100.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$121,000.00 - $175,400.00* 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.
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