Product Designer II, Growth - Acquisition

Jobtailor; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 89,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays and vacation

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN Ad Experience team is seeking a Product Designer II to blend user needs with business goals across desktop, mobile web, app, and video surfaces.

You’ll partner with product managers, engineers, designers, researchers, and data scientists to shape CNN’s premium ad experiences. You bring at least 2 years of design experience, strong Figma skills, and a track record of scalable design systems.

Qualifications

• 2+ years as a product designer, ideally 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 design system components to create scalable, delightful user experiences.
• Experience working on consumer-facing products within large-scale organizations. Bonus points for experience in news/media.
• A demonstrated ability to manage design tasks and a strong record of working cross‑functionally with other disciplines.
• Developing strengths 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.

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.

Skills

Figma

Product thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Design systems

UX design

Education

Bachelor's degree in design/HCI

Tools

Figma

Job description

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

We are the now and the next. The power behind the people building the future. We are born from the spirit of innovation. We are created from the idea that people around the world want more, need more, deserve more. We are the home of the global digital revolution. We are CNN.

To see what it’s like to work at CNN, follow @WBDLife on Instagram and X!

Your New Role…

The CNN Ad Experience team sits at the intersection of CNN’s user experience and its primary financial engine. We believe the future of CNN is in a premium ad experience powered by first‑party data and best‑in‑class UX. To achieve this, we’re unifying ad UX across platforms, innovating on new ad formats, and building smarter tooling to ensure our ads are relevant, timely, and respectful.

The next Product Designer II, Ad Experience is a strong critical thinker who intuitively understands the balance of business and user needs. They love acting as the “tip of the spear” for new projects, and want to continue developing their design thinking as the bridge to other teams and disciplines. They’ll partner closely with product managers, engineers, designers, researchers, and data scientists to build the future of CNN’s digital products.

Your Role Accountabilities…

• 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.

Qualifications & Experience…

• 2+ years as a product designer, ideally 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 design system components to create scalable, delightful user experiences.
• Experience working on consumer-facing products within large-scale organizations. Bonus points for experience in news/media.
• A demonstrated ability to manage design tasks and a strong record of working cross‑functionally with other disciplines.
• Developing strengths 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.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. 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 require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

Compensation

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $88,900.00 - $165,100.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short‑and long‑term incentives, and program‑specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.