Sr. Product Designer - Ad

Position: Sr. Product Designer - Ad Experience
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** Your New Role...*
* CNN is hiring a     
** Senior   Product Designer
** to join the     
** Ad Experience
** team. This is a great opportunity for an individual   who   is passionate about building digital products that   hold   great user experience   as   essential to long-term success .
You'll design   new digital advertisement experiences   across   CNN to support a premium news   product,   reconciling ad revenue considerations,   site performance ,   user subscriptions, and   user   engagement . If   you're seeking a design role that emphasizes strategic thinking   to drive meaningful impact to the business ,   come join us!

T he   CNN   Ad Experience team   sits at the intersection of CNN's   user experience   and 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.

The   next   Senior   Product Designer,   Ad Experience   is   a strategic thinker   who   intuitively understands the balance of   business and user needs.
They love acting as the   "tip of the spear" for new projects, and believe in 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 produc ts 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...*
* +  5 + years as a product designer, with at least 2 years in   ad tech,   marketing tech, or growth   design .

+  Strong   Figma   experience , including   with   variables, components, styles, and shared libraries.

+  A good track record of product thinking, helping teams understand and prioritize the problems they're solving as part of the   design effort.

+  Excellent written and verbal communication   skills .

+  Proficiency in utilizing, creating and modifying design system components to create scalable, delightful user experiences.

+  Experience working   on consumer-facing products   within large-scale organizations. Bonus points for experience in news/media.

+  A demonstrated ability to manage complex design challenges and a strong record of fostering cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder alignment.

+  Strength in   best 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 .

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