Staff Product Designer, Editorial Platforms

About the role

The Staff Product Designer, Editorial Platforms is responsible for designing efficient workflows and intuitive storytelling tools for CNN's editorial, innovation, and performance capabilities. This role involves collaborating with product, engineering, research, editorial, analytics, content strategy, and other designers to envision and shape the future of CNN's publishing platform.

Responsibilities

• Create information architecture diagrams, experience journeys, user flows, wireframes, design mockups, and interactive/vibe-coded prototypes to conceptualize product features.
• Conduct regular user research sessions with editorial users.
• Perform usability tests and draw insights to make informed recommendations.
• Create, contribute, and maintain tokens and components for our design system.
• Champion our design principles, design systems, and product roadmap, and serve editorial teams' needs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and team members to brainstorm, envision, and validate new features and functionalities.

Qualifications & Experience

• 8+ years as a product designer, with at least 2 recent years in content/media management systems, enterprise, and/or productivity tooling work.
• A mastery of Figma 124.4+ including variables, components, styles, and shared libraries.
• Experience with AI prototyping using tools such as Figma Make, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar.
• Demonstrated ability to incorporate AI into the design workflow to test ideas more efficiently and communicate solutions with greater speed and clarity.
• Proficiency in utilizing, creating, and modifying design system components to create scalable, delightful user experiences.
• Excellent and proactive verbal and visual communicator with the ability to develop insightful and engaging presentations and other methods for sharing work and facilitating alignment across multiple levels of the organization.
• A demonstrated ability to manage complex design challenges, individually and by partnering with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience with supporting a distributed team and working in a fast-paced, dynamic, and nimble environment.
• Outstanding attention to detail, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• A strong work ethic, integrity, and collaborative approach to work: willingness to roll up your sleeves and get things done.
• Experience creating and utilizing a Design System.
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.

How We Get Things Done

This role is part of Warner Bros. Discovery, a company committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our guiding principles guide our operations and are central to how we get things done. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. If you have a disability and need assistance during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

Pay

Base pay ranges from $119,000.00 to $221,000.00 per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. Warner Bros. Discovery also offers a variety of benefits, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time, and vacation.