Senior Designer, Story Design & UX, CNN
Warner Bros. DiscoveryAbout the role
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Your New Role...
CNN’s global Visuals team is looking for a senior designer who can shape distinctive, intuitive and visually compelling digital journalism. This role will focus on story design and user experience across a wide range of formats, from quick-turn news moments to medium- and long-term enterprise projects.
You will collaborate with reporters, editors, developers, data journalists and other designers to determine how stories should be structured, presented and experienced by audiences. You should be as comfortable developing a clear visual system for a breaking news explainer as you are designing a deeply reported interactive feature or a reusable approach for ongoing coverage.
The strongest candidates will bring excellent visual taste, a reader-first mindset and an ability to simplify complex information. You will help CNN’s Visuals team raise the quality and consistency of our storytelling while continuing to experiment with new formats and approaches.
Your Role Accountabilities…
Lead the visual and UX design of digital stories across breaking news, daily coverage and medium- to long-term enterprise projects.
Work closely with editors, reporters and developers to identify the strongest structure, hierarchy and visual approach for each story.
Design story experiences that integrate text, graphics, maps, video, photography, illustration, audio, motion and interactive elements where appropriate.
Develop clear wireframes, prototypes, design systems and polished visual treatments for custom storytelling projects.
Create thoughtful approaches for presenting complex information across mobile, desktop and other platforms.
Contribute to quick-turn coverage by developing clear, effective and visually distinctive treatments on deadline.
Collaborate with developers to ensure that designs are responsive, accessible,
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