Staff Product Manager - Design Systems

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Your New Role... 

The CNN Digital Design System Team is part of the Content Platforms team, that is focused on building the next-generation platform that powers CNN on all digital surfaces. This team is responsible for building and scaling our cross-platform web, mobile, and video design system that is the backbone of our high-quality experiences that informs, empowers and engages users with CNN's trusted journalism. Our Design System, Vossi, is young and in hyper-growth mode. This is an incredible opportunity to get in on the ground floor as we scale. 

We are looking for an experienced Staff Product Manager to deliver the design system as a foundational capability for all product development teams and partner across the organization to ensure all our products and experiences represent our identity, streamline product development efforts through reuse and standards, ensure top performance, and support new experiences ongoing. 

As the Staff Product Manager on the CNN Digital Design System Team, you'll manage the roadmap for this critical capability, drive adoption of the design system, and continue to evolve the product based on feedback and technology advances. You'll work in a collaborative, cross-functional environment with architecture, engineering, and design to deliver, govern and grow the design system. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across CNN. 
 

Your Role Accountabilities... 

• Collaborate with cross functional peers to build, govern and grow the CNN Digital Design System.

• Maintain and evolve the Design System and support use cases across platforms and by over 10 different teams.

• Transform the design system vision into a product strategy and execution roadmap.

• Set key performance metrics and OKRs to define success for the platform, including adoption rate as the primary metric.

• Create UI kits, components and provide guidelines & documentation for use by our Designers and Engineers.

• Be a lead advocate for the Design System to enable consistent experiences, reuse and efficient product design and development across CNN.

• Gather, prioritize and document platform requirements, facilitate trade-off discussions and plan and manage interdependencies.

• Identify and mitigate risks, tracing progress, resolving conflicts, ensuring quality and reporting on status.

• Partner with data visualization UX leads to manage visualizations standards and component libr