Staff Product Designer, Emerging Products - CNN Digital, CNN

This is a Full Time Job

Location: New York, New York, United States of America

Company Overview

WarnerMedia is a powerful portfolio of iconic entertainment, news, and sports brands. We bring people, technology, and the world's best storytellers together to drive culture and meaningful connection. We believe the enduring power of stories can open our eyes to the world, to each other, and to new and different perspectives.

CNN invented cable news in 1980, defined online news in 1995 and is now taking the next step in expanding what news can be by launching CNN+. With an unrivaled global reach, storytelling, and world class talent, we are building CNN+, a streaming product that will grow the reach and scope of the CNN brand in a way that no one else is doing.

We are journalists, designers and technologists, all united by a powerful mission to inform, engage and empower the world. Join the most trusted and recognized name in news as we build our next chapter.

Join us. Shape your story here.

The Job

As a Staff Product Designer, you are a member of the world-class CNN Digital Product Design Team, creating trusted new digital experiences that put CNN's talent, expertise, and content programming directly in the hands of news consumers. We have an ambitious product roadmap that emphasizes our unique ability to redefine news and information through content, people, and technology, and our success is driven by these abilities coming together to super-serve our users.

The Staff Product Designer, CNN Digital Emerging Products is an experienced user experience designer who collaborates with your design colleagues to develop a product design vision for the future of CNN's digital product portfolio and advocate for our millions of users through a strong sense of user empathy, contextual awareness of product scale and audience growth, and continuous cross-functional collaboration.

The Daily
• Lead & execute on CNN's emerging product design efforts ranging from mobile application, web user experience, and information architecture.
• Collaborate with partners on your cross-functional team to understand the needs of our teams and establishing a structure and end-to-end workflows designed to best serve those needs.
• Partner with your team in expanding mastery of our business goals and proactively drive strategic solutions and results.
• Team up with your product team to execute on the holistic view of your product suite across integration (customer and technical) points to provide a superior seamless product experience from daily improvements to longer-term strategies.
• Create end-to-end customer journeys that inform new product features and provoke new businesses.

The Essentials
• 8+ years professional experience, specifically as a Product Designer leading digital experience at consumer-focused technology company.
• Design portfolio demonstrating an exceptional track-record of product design solutions to real-world business cases for world-class, industry leading companies.
• Bachelor's Degree in Design or a related field preferred.
• Experience with Product Design across multiple platforms.
• Experience collaborating with internal stakeholders such a Product Management and Engineering.
• Expertise in visual design elements including typography, layout, and visual hierarchy.
• Ability to work proactively and efficiently in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Mastery across a variety of digital product design and prototyping software, including Figma, Sketch, InVision, Principal, and ProtoPie.

The Perks
• Exclusive WarnerMedia events and advance screenings
• Paid time off every year to volunteer for eligible employees
• Access to well-being tools, resources, and freebies
• Access to in-house learning and development resources
• Part of the WarnerMedia family of powerhouse brands

Warner Media, LLC and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.