Manager, Product Design - Newsroom

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.$119K — $221K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product design experience, with 2+ years in content/media management systems or similar tools.
  • 2+ years of proven management experience.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with facilitation expertise.
  • Successful track record of empowering diverse design teams.
  • Proficiency in Figma and AI prototyping tools like Cursor or Claude Code.
  • Experience in large-scale organizations, preferably in the news/media sector.
  • Expertise in user experience design best practices.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance CNN’s editorial experiences.
  • Drive product design strategy with a focus on user empathy and business goals.
  • Balance strategic planning with hands-on execution to deliver impactful designs.
  • Lead and mentor a high-performing design team, fostering a positive workplace culture.
  • Organize team-building and ideation workshops to enhance collaborative design processes.
  • Maintain effective communication across teams while managing multiple projects.
  • Oversee integration points for a seamless user experience and support change management.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for career advancement and mentorship.
  • Access to innovative tools and AI technologies.
  • Collaborative work environment that encourages creativity.
  • Participation in industry-leading projects that impact millions globally.
Full Job Description
Your New Role…

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 andleveragingAI 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. 

Your Role Accountabilities…
  • Be an integral part of the product design team, working with cross-functional team leaderson 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 witha strong senseof empathy, business goals, and industry at scale 

  • Be both strategic and creative, with the ability toprioritize anddeliver 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,fosteringa 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, andother 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 providea superiorseamless product experience and strong change management support. 

  • Create end-to-end customer journeys that inform new product features and promote new businesses.  

  • Employ user research, and analytics data to develop a deep understanding of how users engage, what matters tothemand identifypain points. 

  • Contribute to the product design priorities to inform strategic roadmap, translating business needs into creative and user experience opportunities. 

  • Create information architecture diagrams, experience journeys, user flows, wireframes, designmockupsand interactive, AI-powered prototypes, and alignment documentationtoeffectively conceptualize and communicatedesign solutions and vision.

  • Champion our design principles, designsystemsand 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, andvalidatenew features and functionalities.

Qualifications & Experience…
  • 8+ years as a product designer, with at least2 recent yearsin content/media management systems and/or internal tooling or enterprise productivity tooling work.

  • 2+ years of management experience.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication abilities and facilitation skills.

  • Proventrack recordof empowering and managing a diverse teamof designers, with a focus on helping them grow and succeed.

  • A mastery of Figmaand some AI prototypingexpertiseusing Cursor, Claude Code,Figma Make, or similar tools.

  • Proficiencyin utilizing, creating and modifying design system components to create scalable, delightful user experiences.

  • Experience working within large-scale or enterprise organizations, requiring patience and proactive communication along each step of the design process.Bonus points for experience in news/media. 

  • A demonstrated ability to manage complex design challengesand a strong record of fostering cross-functional collaborationand stakeholder alignment.

  • Masteryofand abilityto guideothersonbest practices ofuser experience design, including usability principles, user researchmethodology, testing techniques (A/B, Multi-Variant), design theory, and interaction design.

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

  • Willingness totake smart risks, championnew ideas,roll up yoursleeves,and get things done.

About Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. WBIE was founded on January 14, 2004 under Warner Bros. and transferred to the Home Entertainment division when that company was formed in October 2005. WBIE manages the wholly owned game development studios TT Games, Rocksteady Studios, NetherRealm Studios, Monolith Productions, WB Games Boston, Avalanche Software, and WB Games Montréal, among others.
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