Staff Product Designer, Newsroom

Staff Product Designer, Newsroom for CNN at Warner Bros. Discovery focuses on editorial experiences and AI enabled newsroom tooling, collaborating with product, engineering, research, and editorial teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the product design team to shape CNN editorial interfaces and newsroom tooling, spanning quick wins to long-term vision for broadcast news production.
• Create information architecture diagrams, journey maps, user flows, wireframes, design mockups, and AI powered prototypes to clearly conceptualize features.
• Conduct regular user research sessions with editorial users to inform design decisions.
• Run usability tests and synthesize insights to guide recommendations and next steps.
• Develop, contribute to, and maintain tokens and components for the design system.
• Champion design principles, design systems, and the product roadmap to meet the needs of editorial teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to brainstorm, envision, and validate new features for CNN's publishing platform.

Requirements

• 8+ years as a product designer, with at least 2 recent years in content or media management systems and/or productivity tooling.
• Proficiency in Figma, including variables, components, styles, and shared libraries.
• AI prototyping expertise using Cursor, Figma Make, or similar tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Experience using, creating, and modifying design system components to deliver scalable, delightful user experiences.
• Experience in large-scale or enterprise environments with proactive communication; bonus for experience in news or media.
• Proven ability to manage complex design challenges and foster cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder alignment.
• Expertise in UX best practices, including usability, user research methods, testing (A/B, multi-variant), design theory, and interaction design; able to guide others.
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.
• Willingness to roll up sleeves and execute to delivery.

Technologies

• Figma
• Cursor
• Figma Make

Benefits

• health insurance coverage
• an employee wellness program
• life and disability insurance
• a retirement savings plan
• paid holidays and sick time and vacation
• annual bonuses
• short- and long-term incentives
• program-specific awards

Your New Role

Newsroom editorial platforms and tooling power CNN’s editorial, innovation, and performance capabilities, accelerating our ability to create world-class digital experiences. We are investing heavily in leveraging artificial intelligence and improving user experience in core newsroom products to empower broadcast journalists, editors, and content creators, driving efficiency, unlocking innovation, and enabling smarter, faster decision-making across the organization.

How We Get Things Done

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