Product Design Manager, News Digital

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service. Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. We believe that our workforce should represent the communities we live in, so that together, we can continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. Click here to learn more about Comcast NBCUniversal’s commitment and how we are making an impact.

Job Description

About Us

• At the NBC News Group, we are responsible for the best, most impactful news brands in the industry, including NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, Today, and E!. We care passionately about news and our ability to help our customers to get informed and inspired about what is important to them (and us.)

The Role

• As a Product Design Manager on our Core Web Experiences team, you will coach and mentor designers on  passionate, consumer-centric product design teams to create and evolve our cross-brand platforms and experiences that serve millions of customers.  This opportunity allows someone a chance to shape design strategy & vision for multiple brands through multi-tenant design systems and cross-platform UX. This includes channeling brand specific design vision and requirements into visual storytelling artifacts and design strategies that work across the platform.
• Success in this role is driven by the ability to manage a high performing team of in-house designers. You’ll have the opportunity to advocate for design best practices, integrating UX Research and building meaningful customer experiences. In this role, the one must lead with the understanding the right way is rarely the easy way & that challenges are opportunities.
• This role is based in 30 Rock, NY – open to remote candidates

What We Value

• At NBCU, product designers are the customer advocates. We use human-centered thinking and empathy to understand customers’ behaviors and needs and create solutions for them. To accomplish this, we hold our collaborative relationships with our peers in high regard, preferring to overcommunicate and listen deeply. As a team, we are always seeking to improve by staying curious, acknowledging that the right way is rarely the easy way, and proactively seeking solutions. Organizationally, we ensure that product designers have clear career growth opportunities that are fostered by coaching & mentoring by design leaders.

Qualifications

Required Product Design Skills                                           

• 7+ years of experience as a full-stack product designer who utilizes a data-driven, human-centric approach to product design and development
• 7+ years of experience with Product Discovery, Design Thinking, Lean UX
• Exceptional ability to present and visually communicate
• Proven ability to utilize design thinking and facilitation skills to gather insights and inputs from internal stakeholders
• Channel broader design vision and articulate product design strategy via visual artifacts

Required Design Management Skills

• 3+ years of experience managing, and mentoring multiple designers
• 3+ years of design system experience; work within and contribute to our design systems as well as cross-platform visual systems and languages
• 7+ years of experience with contemporary design, prototyping tools, and methods
• Robust design skills, including interaction design, layout, typography, and color
• Ability to clearly document interactions, edge-cases, & the various states of these experiences through deliverables such as user flows, wireframes, and prototypes
• Work within, and contribute to, our design systems as well as cross-platform visual systems and languages
• Understanding of usability & accessibility best practices across platforms throughout the design process, with a background in mobile preferred

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Ben