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 implement new features.

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 and perform usability tests to gather insights and make informed recommendations.
• Create, contribute, and maintain tokens and components for the design system.
• Champion the design principles, design systems, and product roadmap, serving the editorial teams' needs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and team members to brainstorm, envision, and validate new features and functionalities for CNN's publishing platform.

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 like 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

We believe in championing inclusion at Warner Bros. Discovery. Our guiding principles guide us in building a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We strive to consider qualified candidates on merit without discrimination based on 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.

Pay

Base pay ranges from $119,000.00 to $221,000.00 per year. Additional rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. Warner Bros. Discovery also provides 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.