Staff Product Designer - Politics

Job Description

Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We're home to the world's best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.

CNN Digital is the most powerful news brand on the internet, reaching millions of people across platforms and around the world every day. 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 and be a part of a dynamic global team of smart, collaborative and thoughtful journalists doing essential work at a critical time.

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The Job

The Staff Product Designer - CNN Politics is an experienced designer who collaborates with a highly-skilled and diverse team of product designers, product managers, engineers, researchers, editorial partners, and data scientists to build and grow CNN Digital product experiences that help inform & engage our users, and impact CNN's bottom line. This role is specifically focused on the design of personalized and connected experiences in the politics and elections spaces, and will involve staffing elections as part of a digital support team.

The Daily

In this role, you will:
• Oversee & execute on CNN's Politics product design efforts for mobile and desktop web, including page templates, information architecture, navigation, integrated editorial and product experiences, and personalization features, all with a focus on storytelling, accessibility, and making meaning
• Collaborate with partners on your cross-functional team to understand the needs of our users and establish end-to-end and connected workflows designed to best serve those needs
• Partner with your team to solve meaningful user problems and proactively drive strategic solutions and results
• Collaborate with your product and engineering counterparts to steer the holistic view of the user journey to provide a superior and seamless product experience, from daily improvements to longer-term strategies
• Participate in qualitative research activities to inform design decisions, including unmoderated and possibly moderated concept testing
• Help identify research needs and opportunities, and collaborate with research partners on efforts to fill those needs
• Make use of qualitative and quantitative insights to inform and evaluate design decisions
• Explain user problems and the rationale for recommended solutions to cross-functional team members
• Meaningfully participate in design reviews with your product design peers
• Present design work to your cross-functional peers, including framing the user problem or opportunity, proposed solutions, desired feedback, status, dependencies, and next steps

The Essentials
• Product design portfolio demonstrating strong UX and visual design solutions, with an emphasis on identifying and meaningfully solving true user problems
• 8+ years professional experience, specifically as a Product Designer 
• Experienced in design software such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Miro, and possibly others
• Expertise in visual design elements, including typography, layout, and visual hierarchy 
• Prototyping skills
• Qualitative research experience a plus, but not required
• Exceptional track record advancing product design strategy from a long-term view to daily execution, mentoring designers, and partnering with cross-functional team members 
• Bachelor's Degree in Design or a related field or equivalent work experience
• You like to take smart risks and champion new ideas, and you care about informing the electorate through product design in support of world-class journalism

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.

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