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Remote Senior Designer jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors from software and fintech to e-commerce and digital media, at remote-first companies and distributed teams that need experienced designers who can lead projects without daily in-person oversight. Employers hiring remotely right now include Ryder System, Affirm, and Harley Ellis Devereaux. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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The application window is expected to close on: 07/03/2026. 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.
Why Cisco?
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 - $197,100.00
Non-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.
The application window is expected to close on: 07/03/2026. 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.
Why Cisco?
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 - $197,100.00
Non-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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Who's Hiring
- Ryder System48
- Affirm34
- Harley Ellis Devereaux21
- Mission Lane7
- AECOM6
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software75
- Banking & Financial Services45
- Construction & Real Estate37
- Consulting & Professional Services24
- Fintech11
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote senior designer jobs.
- 5 or more years of professional design experience with a portfolio demonstrating shipped work
- Proficiency in Figma, Sketch, or Adobe Creative Suite depending on the team's stack
- Experience leading design projects end-to-end across research, concepting, and delivery
- Ability to communicate design decisions to non-design stakeholders and product teams
- Bachelor's degree in graphic design, interaction design, or a related visual discipline
- Familiarity with design systems, component libraries, and brand guidelines at scale
Tips for Your Remote Senior Designer Job Search
Show async collaboration in your portfolio
Remote hiring managers want proof you can work without a whiteboard session. Add case study sections that show how you shared design rationale in writing, ran async critique rounds, and moved projects forward without synchronous check-ins.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote senior designer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your skills and apply directly without sorting through mixed listings. Applying in the first few days lifts your visibility before a posting fills.
Frame your tools as remote infrastructure
Remote employers treat Figma, Notion, Loom, and Slack fluency as baseline requirements, not bonuses. Call out how you've used those tools to run design reviews, document decisions, and hand off work to engineers and stakeholders across time zones.
Target remote-first companies by company type
Remote-first SaaS firms, digital product agencies, and distributed e-commerce brands have built hiring pipelines for senior designers who work independently. Filter your search by company type to focus energy on organizations with the culture and infrastructure to support remote design work.
Prepare for the remote design interview format
Remote senior designer interviews often include an async portfolio review before any live call. Record a short Loom walkthrough of two or three case studies in advance so you can share it instantly. During live rounds, expect questions about how you drive alignment without being in the room.
Remote Senior Designer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote senior designer job?
Target companies built around distributed teams, such as remote-first SaaS firms, digital agencies, and e-commerce brands, because they have the tooling and culture to support senior designers working independently. Remote employers screen hard for async communication skills, the ability to give and receive design feedback in writing, and proficiency with tools like Figma, Notion, and Loom. A portfolio that documents your decision-making process, not just final visuals, gives you a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote senior designers?
Companies hiring remote senior designers right now include Ryder System, Affirm, and Harley Ellis Devereaux, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Remote-first technology firms, distributed digital product teams, and e-commerce companies make up the largest share of these openings.
Can you get a remote senior designer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry roles at the senior level are harder to land because employers expect you to manage ambiguity and deliver without close supervision from day one. Your strongest substitutes for experience are a portfolio showing end-to-end project ownership, contributions to open-source design systems, and freelance or contract work that demonstrates you can hit deadlines independently. Remote-first startups and agencies are the most likely to take a chance on candidates with strong portfolios over years logged.
Do you need a degree for remote senior designer jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers weigh portfolio quality, demonstrated proficiency in tools like Figma or Adobe Creative Suite, and a history of shipping real work over a formal design degree. That said, some enterprise and healthcare clients require a degree for compliance reasons, so check individual postings. A strong body of work with clear case studies addressing real problems will carry more weight than credentials in most remote hiring processes.
Which industries hire the most remote senior designers?
Most remote senior designer openings sit in Technology & Software, Banking & Financial Services, and Construction & Real Estate, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Those sectors rely on distributed product and marketing teams that need experienced designers who can collaborate across time zones without slowing down delivery.
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