Graduate User Experience Designer Cisco Systems

Shape the future of collaborationWe are looking for a User Experience designer to join our Collaboration Devices Design team in Oslo. We are building workplace transformation with our award-winning hardware and software solutions for team collaboration. Our goal is to transform the connections between people and the information they need to share, between the physical and digital, - locally and globally. What you will do:

• Join an enthusiastic, high-performing team
• Create high quality user experiences from concept to specifications
• Contribute to our design process and principles, and coordinate design work
• Conduct heuristic evaluations on existing products
• Identify user needs, and help define project approach
• Work closely with other UX designers, visual designers, service designers, industrial designers, product managers and engineers in the process of building the right user experiences
• Understand our customers and end users across the world, and preserve their perspective working in a multidisciplinary team
• Contribute to a consistent user experience within Cisco’s Webex brand

Who we are looking for:

• An UX or interaction designer who loves to make the complex simple, and have the ability to effortlessly flex between the bigger picture, concrete problems and attention to detail
• You put people, their real needs and experiences first, and have a deep understanding of UX methodologies, processes and principles
• You have experience with interaction design for mobile, web, desktop or embedded system applications, and can demonstrate end-to-end thinking from insight to concept to wireframes to finished shipped product
• You are self-propelled and not afraid to take lead responsibility
• You have the analytical ability to translate business problems and requirements into useful and compelling design solutions
• You are a real team player who communicates clearly and effectively, engage people around you and promote a constructive environment for creative exploration and designs to become real
• You are up to date on trends and theory within the profession, and passionate about design, technology and human collaboration
• You aim high, but can be pragmatic when needed

Who you will work with:You will be a part of the Webex Devices Design team. We are dreamers and doers who aren’t afraid to challenge, and we work closely with software developers and product managers in our Oslo office.In Cisco, design is its own global organization and represented in our Business Leadership team. We have every breed of designers in The Design Group, and run several cross-team activities, workshops, trainings and events with our design peers in San Francisco, Seattle, Galway-Ireland and Shanghai.Your opportunities - why Cisco

• Have your design efforts reach millions of users around the world, and simplify their everyday work life
• Build unique experiences in a Fortune 500 company
• Reach for a level of perfection you only get when hardware and software is designed together
• Broaden your design perspective by working with users in any industry, such as energy, fashion, education, finance, social media, car industry and IT
• Pursue a career path either as a domain expert or as a design leader
• Grow as a designer through our mentoring program, internal and external training events and attend conferences
• Work in a climate-friendly business, sharply reducing the need for business air travel
• Have a flexible work-life balance, our job is to create the tools for that

Required qualifications

• Relevant education (bachelor or higher) in Interaction/UX Design or related field
• Proficient in visualization, wireframing and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Adobe suite, InVision, etc
• Experienced with usability principles and testing
• Any professional experience working on user interface design projects from concept to implementation in multidisciplinary teams is a major plus
• Ability to live and work in Norway
• Must be fluent in English

Start date: August 2021
Work Location: Lysaker, just outside of Oslo
Application deadline:  30.November 2020 - We review applications ongoing
Upon applying please upload or send link to your portfolio, CV and university grade transcript. For any questions you can reach us on jobs-lysaker@cisco.com.