Sr. Product Designer - Ad Experience

Warner Bros. Discovery; Washington; On-site; USD 107,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Retirement plan

Paid holidays

Vacation

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery's CNN is hiring a Senior Product Designer to join the Ad Experience team.

This role focuses on building digital advertisement experiences across CNN’s desktop, mobile web, mobile app, and video surfaces, reconciling ad revenue, performance, subscriptions and user engagement. You will partner with product managers, engineers, designers, researchers and data scientists to drive strategic design thinking, contribute to the design system, and help define the monetization

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a product designer, with at least 2 years in 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 communications 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 points 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, HCI, or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Be an integral part of the product design team evolving CNN’s advertising products 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

Product design

Figma

Product thinking

Communication

Design systems

Collaboration

UX best practices

Consumer-facing products

Education

Bachelor's 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 atCNN, follow @WBDLife on Instagramand X!

Your New Role…

CNN is hiring a SeniorProduct Designer to join the Ad Experience team. This is a great opportunity for an individualwhois passionate about building digital products thatholdgreat user experienceasessential to long-term success.You’ll designnew digital advertisement experiencesacrossCNN to support a premium newsproduct,reconciling ad revenue considerations,site performance,user subscriptions, anduserengagement. Ifyou’re seeking a design role that emphasizes strategic thinkingto drive meaningful impact to the business,come join us!

TheCNNAd Experience teamsits at the intersection of CNN’suser experienceand 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’reunifying ad UX across platforms,innovating onnew ad formats,andbuildingsmartertooling to ensure our ads arerelevant, timely, and respectful.

ThenextSeniorProduct Designer,Ad Experienceisa strategic thinkerwhointuitively understands the balanceofbusiness and user needs.They love acting as the“tip of the spear” for new projects, and believe in design thinking as the bridge to other teams and disciplines.They’ll partner closely with product managers, engineers, designers, researchers, and data scientists tobuild the future of CNN’s digital products.

Your Role Accountabilities…

• Be an integral part of the product design team that isevolvingCNN’s advertising products and footprints across desktop web, mobile web, mobile app, and video surfaces.

• Create user flows,mockups,andinteractive prototypesto effectively conceptualize product features.

• Help driveuser research sessionsand usability teststo better understandour 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’smonetizationby collaborating with stakeholders and team members to brainstorm, envision, and validate newad products and footprints.
  

Qualifications & Experience…

• 5+ years as a product designer, with at least 2 years inad tech,marketing tech, or growthdesign.

• StrongFigmaexperience, includingwithvariables, 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 thedesign effort.

• Excellent written and verbal communicationskills.

• Proficiency in utilizing, creating and modifying design system components to create scalable, delightful user experiences.

• Experience workingon consumer-facing productswithin large-scale organizations. Bonus points 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 inbest 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.

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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: $107,089.00 - $198,879.00 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.