Director, Product Design, Digital Product Growth

Job Description

The Job

As a Director of Product Design, Product Growth, you are a member of the world-class CNN Digital Product Design Team, which is responsible for creating industry-leading user experiences engaged by millions across the globe. CNN is driven by a shared commitment to put our users at the center of the experiences we build and to push the boundaries on what an exceptional digital experience can be. We believe that success is driven by the combined ability of content, design, product, and technology to achieve user delight.

The Director of Product Design, Product Growth, is an experienced product design leader who collaborates with product managers, engineers, designers, researchers, editors, and data scientists to build and grow CNN Digital product experiences that inform & engage our users, and impact CNN's bottom line. This role is focused on building experiences for expanding CNN's reach, engaging our most loyal and engaged users.

The Daily
• Shape & communicates on CNN Digital product design efforts.
• Manage multiple designers, implementing team priorities and balancing day-to-day work with big picture strategies.
• Steer the holistic view of the user experience to provide a superior and seamless product experience, from daily improvements to longer-term strategies.
• Manage and coach your team in expanding mastery of our business goals.
• Direct a holistic design strategy across multiple platforms & audience surfaces.
• Identifies new opportunities that use Design to solve company problems.
• Guide user research and analytics data to develop a deep understanding of how users engage, what matters to them and identify pain points.

The Essentials
• 10+ years related work experience leading digital design experience is required.
• 5+ years of management experience.
• Exceptional track record of empowering and managing a team of designers to help them grow and succeed.
• Experience leading and building world-class product experiences and streamlining workflows for continuous iteration and improvement.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills to clearly communicate and lead a diverse, multi-disciplinary teams.
• Mastery and able to guide on 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.
• Willingness to roll up your sleeve and get things done.
• Take smart risks and champion new ideas.

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, 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.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp5244-3-144-172-115-42 in your application.