VP, Product Design, Product Creative - CNN
Your New Role
CNN is seeking a VP Product Design, Product Creative to lead our agile Product Creative team. This role functions as a high-level player-coach, responsible for owning the creation of premium visual assets that sit directly adjacent to the UI.
Qualifications & Experience
- 15+ Years of Hybrid Experience: A robust background spanning visual design, product design, and creative direction. Content creation (Broadcast, UGC, Agency, or Editorial) experience is a strong plus.
- Player-Coach Mentality: You possess the strategic vision of a high-level leader but remain deeply connected to the craft, highly comfortable executing world-class design work yourself.
- The "Creative Director’s Eye": Exceptional visual judgment with a track record of providing detailed, actionable feedback that helps designers elevate the fidelity of their work.
- Agile Team Leadership: A proven history of developing and inspiring top-tier talent within specialized, fast-moving visual and product design teams.
- Strategic Collaboration: You view other creative cultures not as competitors, but as partners. You excel at navigating matrixed environments and guiding conversations toward shared visual goals through diplomacy and design expertise.
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.
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.