Sr. Product Designer - Platforms

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Your New Role…

As a Sr Product Designer, Platforms, you are a member of the CNN Digital Product Design Team, which is responsible for creating industry-leading new experiences consumed by millions of audiences across the globe.

The Platforms team creates bespoke storytelling tools for CNN’s world class editorial team. Our content platform, Stellar, is the backbone of the CNN digital experience. StoryHub is a brand-new centralized planning tool to improve broadcast/linear and digital newsroom workflows, helping our news teams focus on delivering award-winning journalism. This is an incredible opportunity to join this initiative at the ground level to design and implement a new vision for newsrooms of the future.

You are an experienced designer who enjoys collaborating with product, engineering, research, editorial, analytics, content strategy and other designers to create efficient workflows and intuitive storytelling tools, while building a best-in-class platform.

Your Role Accountabilities…

• Create information architecture diagrams, experience journeys, user flows, wireframes, design mockups and interactive prototypes to effectively 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 our editorial teams’ needs

• Play a role in shaping the future of CNN's publishing platform by collaborating with stakeholders and team members to brainstorm, envision, and validate new features and functionalities

Qualifications & Experience…

• 6+ years as a product designer

• Enterprise, platforms or internal tools experience preferred

• Mastery of Figma 124.4+ including variables, components, styles, and shared libraries

• 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

• Strong work ethic, integrity and collaborative approach to work: willingness to roll up your sleeves and get things done

• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience

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