Sr. Product Designer - Ad Experience
About The Position
Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join the Ad Experience team at CNN. This role is ideal for someone passionate about creating digital products with excellent user experience as a core component of long-term success. The designer will be responsible for creating new digital advertisement experiences across CNN, balancing ad revenue needs, site performance, user subscriptions, and user engagement to support a premium news product. This position emphasizes strategic thinking to drive significant business impact. The CNN Ad Experience team operates at the intersection of CNN's user experience and its primary financial drivers. The team's vision is a premium ad experience powered by first-party data and best-in-class UX, achieved through unifying ad UX across platforms, innovating ad formats, and developing smarter tooling for relevant, timely, and respectful ads. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who understands the balance between business and user needs, enjoys leading new projects, and uses design thinking to bridge communication with other teams and disciplines. They will collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, researchers, and data scientists to shape the future of CNN's digital products.
Requirements
- 5+ years as a product designer, with at least 2 years in ad tech, marketing tech, or growth design.
- Strong Figma experience, including with variables, components, styles, and shared libraries.
- A good track record of product thinking, helping teams understand and prioritize the problems they’re solving as part of the design effort.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in utilizing, creating and modifying design system components to create scalable, delightful user experiences.
- Experience working on consumer-facing products within large-scale organizations.
- A demonstrated ability to manage complex design challenges and a strong record of fostering cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder alignment.
- Strength in best practices of user experience design, including usability principles, user research methodology, testing techniques (A/B, Multi-Variant), design theory, and interaction design.
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.
Nice To Haves
- Bonus points for experience in news/media.
Responsibilities
- Be an integral part of the product design team that is evolving CNN’s advertising products and footprints across desktop web, mobile web, mobile app, and video surfaces.
- Create user flows, mockups, and interactive prototypes to effectively conceptualize product features.
- Help drive user research sessions and usability tests to better understand our consumers.
- Create, contribute, and maintain components for our design system.
- Champion our design principles, design systems and product roadmap, and serve our editorial teams’ needs.
- Play a role in shaping the future of CNN's monetization by collaborating with stakeholders and team members to brainstorm, envision, and validate new ad products and footprints.
Benefits
- health insurance coverage
- an employee wellness program
- life and disability insurance
- a retirement savings plan
- paid holidays and sick time and vacation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
