Sr. Product Designer - Ad Experience

CNN; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 107,089 - 198,879; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays

Sick time

Vacation

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Senior Product Designer for the Ad Experience team to craft digital ad experiences that balance revenue, site performance, subscriptions, and engagement.

You will join a growing design function focused on desktop, mobile, app, and video surfaces, shaping features through flows, mockups, and prototypes while integrating user research and a scalable design system.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a product designer with at least 2 years in ad tech, marketing tech, or growth design.
• Strong Figma experience, including variables, components, styles, and shared libraries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in design, 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 to, 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

Product design

Figma

Product thinking

Communication

Design systems

Cross-functional collaboration

User research

Usability principles

Interaction design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in design/HCI or equivalent

Tools

Figma

Job description

Your New Role

CNN is hiring a Senior Product Designer to join the Ad Experience team. You will design new digital advertisement experiences across CNN to support a premium news product, balancing ad revenue, site performance, user subscriptions, and engagement.

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 to, 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

• 5+ years as a product designer, with at least 2 years in ad tech, marketing tech, or growth design.

• Strong Figma experience, including variables, components, styles, and shared libraries.

• A good track record of product thinking, helping teams understand and prioritize the problems they’re solving.

• 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; bonus for experience in news/media.

• 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.

How We Get Things Done

Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. These principles can be found at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. We are an equal‑opportunity employer and consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or any other legally protected category.

Benefits and Compensation

Pay Range: $107,089.00 – $198,879.00 per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short‑ and long‑term incentives, and program‑specific awards. We also provide health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time, and vacation.

Accessibility

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.

Legal Disclosure

This position may be based at our headquarters in Burbank, CA. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including location, skill set, experience, and performance.