Product Designer II, Growth - Acquisition

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.$88K — $165K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years as a product designer, preferably in tech or marketing tech.
  • Strong experience with Figma, including variables and design systems.
  • Proven track record of product thinking and prioritizing design challenges.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to create scalable user experiences using design system components.
  • Experience with consumer-facing products in large organizations, preferably in news/media.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage design tasks and work cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

  • Evolve CNN’s advertising products across various digital platforms.
  • Create user flows, mockups, and interactive prototypes for new features.
  • Conduct user research sessions and usability tests.
  • Maintain and contribute to the design system components.
  • Champion design principles and align with editorial teams' needs.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to envision and validate new ad products.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of ad experience design in a major media outlet.
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams including engineers, researchers, and data scientists.
  • Potential for growth in product design by engaging with innovative ad products.
  • Exposure to a fast-paced, premium ad ecosystem leveraging first-party data.
  • Insight into monetization strategies in the media industry.
Full Job Description

Your New Role... 

TheCNNAd Experience teamsits at the intersection of CNN’suser experienceand its primary financial engine.We believe the future of CNN is in a premium ad experience powered by first-party data and best-in-class UX. To achieve this, we’re unifying ad UX across platforms, innovating on new ad formats, and building smarter tooling to ensure our ads are relevant, timely, and respectful. 

ThenextProduct DesignerII,Ad Experienceisastrong criticalthinkerwho intuitively understands the balance ofbusiness and user needs.They love acting as the “tip of the spear” for newprojects, andwant to continue developing their design thinking as the bridge to other teams and disciplines. They’ll partner closely with product managers, engineers, designers, researchers, and data scientists to build the future of CNN’s digital products.

Your Role Accountabilities...  

  • Be an integral part of the product design team that is evolving CNN’s advertising products and footprints across desktop web, mobile web, mobile app, and video surfaces. 

  • Create user flows, mockups, and interactive prototypes to effectively conceptualize product features. 

  • Help drive user research sessions and usability tests to better understand our consumers. 

  • Create, contribute, and maintain 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 monetization by collaborating with stakeholders and team members to brainstorm, envision, and validate new ad products and footprints. 

Qualifications & Experience... 

  • 2+ years as a product designer,ideallyinad tech,marketing tech, or growthdesign.

  • StrongFigmaexperience, including with variables, components, styles, and shared libraries.

  • A goodtrack recordof product thinking, helping teams understand and prioritize the problems they’resolving as part of the design effort.

  • Excellent written and verbal communicationskills.

  • Proficiencyin utilizingdesign system components to create scalable, delightful user experiences.

  • Experience workingon consumer-facing productswithin large-scale organizations. Bonus points for experience in news/media.

  • A demonstrated ability to manage designtasksand a strong record of workingcross-functionally with otherdisciplines.

  • Developing strengthsinbest practices of user experience design, including usability principles, user research methodology, testing techniques (A/B, Multi-Variant), design theory, and interaction design.

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

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

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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