Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

Job Description

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Your New Role…

As a Staff Product Designer, Design Systems, you are a member of the world-class CNN Digital Product Design Team, which is responsible for creating industry-leading new experiences consumed by millions of audiences across the globe.

The Vossi Design System team is responsible for building and maintaining CNN's multi-platform design system. Vossi is young and in hyper-growth mode. This is an incredible opportunity to join at ground level, to envision and implement a world-class, scalable design system.

Your Role Accountabilities…
• The Staff Product Designer is an experienced designer who enjoys collaborating with product, engineering, research, editorial, analytics, content strategy and other designers to build and grow a reusable library that supports speed and innovation towards a stellar end user experience. In this role, you will have the opportunity to impact the entirety of CNN's digital experience, and at the same time impact CNN's bottom line.
• Be an integral part of the team that owns a world-class design system and help steer the growth and execution of the program
• Build and maintain tokens and components that align with our design principles, the Vossi roadmap, and serve vertical teams' needs
• Help the design system grow as a true internal product: research and consider the needs and pain points of our internal users, as well as their touchpoints with the design system; collaborate on design system metrics; write OKRs and define the roadmap; contribute to intake, office hours, governance, and other process development and execution
• Stay current on modern design system trends and technology
• Help to foster a deep collaborative culture and promote partnership with cross-functional teams
• Be an evangelist for the Vossi Design System: collaborate on comms plans, define and promote design and accessibility standards, optimize feedback channels and workflows between the Vossi team and other verticals
• Mentor more junior designers on the highest caliber of craft and cross-functional partnership

Qualifications & Experience…
• 8+ years as a product designer, with at least 2 in recent design systems work
• A mastery of Figma
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills with stellar collaboration abilities
• 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

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