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Hiring Remotely in Austin, TX
104K-177K Annually
Senior level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in Austin, TX
104K-177K Annually
Senior level
Designs UI text, information architecture, navigation, terminology, and content patterns for complex enterprise software. Partners with product design, product management, engineering, research, and marketing to improve usability and maintain consistent design-system experiences. Creates onboarding guidance, validates decisions through usability research and card sorting, and supports designers with scalable content frameworks and AI-assisted tools.
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Meet the Team  

Content designers at Splunk are integral to the product design process — not writers at the end of the pipeline, but strategic partners who shape how users understand and navigate complex enterprise software. You'll work across product teams to define terminology, create consistent UI text, establish information architecture, and develop content-led design patterns that scale.  
  
This role sits within the Content Design and Information Architecture team and partners closely with product design, product management, engineering, research, and marketing. You'll contribute to Splunk's design system compliance while keeping the user experience coherent across a portfolio of security, observability, and platform products.  

Your Impact  

  • Design clear, consistent UI text across flows — labels, error messages, empty states, onboarding, tooltips, and more — in alignment with Splunk's style guide and design system 
  • Lead information architecture and navigation design for complex product areas, using research to fit user mental models 
  • Define and maintain cross-product terminology, partnering with product management and product marketing to resolve naming conflicts and drive durable decisions 
  • Develop content-led guidelines and patterns (e.g. error messaging standards, capitalization, in-product help) that product designers and engineers can apply consistently 
  • Create and maintain in-product guidance experiences, such as walkthroughs and tours, to support user onboarding and feature adoption 
  • Collaborate on design system standards to ensure content patterns are compliant and reusable across the portfolio 
  • Partner with design and research on usability studies and card sorting to validate content and navigation decisions 
  • Support product designers on projects that lack dedicated content design coverage, providing frameworks and AI-assisted tools to maintain quality at scale 

  

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's plus 5 years of related experience, or Master's plus 3 years of related experience. Related experience is understood to include content design and UX writing practice
  • Prior experience in content design, UX writing, or a closely related field within complex software products  
  • Previous backgrond with driving cross-functional alignment on terminology and naming decisions with product, marketing, and engineering stakeholders 

  

Preferred Qualifications

  • Applied experience with adaptability and resilience in navigating ambiguity, with the ability to effectively articulate the strategic value of the discipline to key stakeholders
  • Prior experience with UI text craft: you write clearly, concisely, and with a consistent voice across diverse UI surfaces  
  • Prior experience thinking structurally about information architecture, taxonomy, and navigation — not just individual strings  
  • Applied experience working with Figma and design systems; experience with Magnetic or similar enterprise design systems is a plus  
    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 $104,100.00 to $131,900.00 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:

    $121,400.00 - $177,100.00

    Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

    $111,800.00 - $163,000.00

    * 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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