Manager, Product Design - Newsroom

Newsroom platforms and tooling power CNN’s editorial, innovation, and performance capabilities, accelerating our ability to create world-class digital and broadcast experiences. We are investing heavily in improving user experience and leveraging AI capabilities in new and existing core newsroom products to empower broadcast and digital journalists, editors, directors, producers, and other content creators — and drive efficiency, unlock innovation, and enable smarter, faster decision-making across the organization.  

Product Design Manager, Newsroom is an experienced design leader who enjoys collaborating with designers, product, engineering, research, editorial, data, marketing, content strategy and business leadership to build efficient user workflows and intuitive storytelling tools. This is an incredible opportunity to join the CNN Product Design Team and to envision and design industry-leading editorial experiences for creating news content consumed by millions of audiences across the globe. 

• Be an integral part of the product design team, working with cross-functional team leaders on creating the next generation of CNN’s editorial experiences for broadcast and digital news production, from small iterative improvements to long term vision. 

• Drive the product design strategy for the future of newsroom products, while advocating for its users with a strong sense of empathy, business goals, and industry at scale  

• Be both strategic and creative, with the ability to prioritize and deliver via hands-on execution and influence. 

• Establish a high performing team structure, including people management, professional development, and mentorship responsibilities for individual team members.  

• Empower and manage designers, fostering a cohesive, committed, passionate, productive, and positive environment within a growing team.  

• Create opportunities for ideation, team building, and collaborative design thinking across the team through workshops, onsites, design sprints, and other team activities.  

• Be highly communicative and responsive both within your team and across the company while managing a large volume of active workstreams.  

• Steer the holistic view of your product suite across integration (user and technical) points to provide<