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, Newsroomis an experienced design leader who enjoys collaborating withdesigners,product, engineering, research, editorial, data, marketing, contentstrategyandbusiness leadershipto 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.

• Be an integral part of the product design team, working with cross-functional team leadersoncreating the next generation of CNN’seditorial experiencesfor broadcastand digitalnews 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-onexecutionand 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 teamactivities

• 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 experienceand 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 tothemandidentifypain 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.

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