VP Product Design, Product Creative (CNN)
A senior leader responsible for guiding the creative direction of CNN’s digital products, leading a specialized agile team of visual and product designers, and ensuring premium, brand‑aligned visual assets that support an engaging user experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor the Product Creative team, setting a clear creative vision and fostering high‑fidelity design work.
- Own UI‑adjacent assets, including avatar systems, interactive headers, dynamic backgrounds, curated hubs, promotion CTAs, and UI templates.
- Act as a player‑coach, balancing hands‑on design execution with executive alignment and strategic direction.
- Collaborate closely with Product Design, Editorial Visuals, Merchandising, Brand, and Engineering to integrate design system principles and produce cohesive visual experiences.
- Elevate design quality across the organization, providing expert guidance and detailed feedback to maintain brand integrity and narrative‑driven aesthetics.
- Translate creative aspirations into scalable design system standards, working with platform teams to embed the “CNN Look” into the product platform.
- Lead cross‑functional initiatives, including participation in Design Council activities, to ensure unified creative outcomes across all CNN products.
Qualifications & Experience
- 15+ years of hybrid experience in visual design, product design, and creative direction, with a strong portfolio that demonstrates high‑fidelity craftsmanship.
- Player‑coach mentality: strategic leadership combined with comfortable, world‑class design execution.
- Exceptional visual judgment and a track record of providing actionable feedback that raises design standards.
- Proven ability to build and inspire fast‑moving visual and product design teams.
- Strong collaboration skills, adept at navigating matrixed environments and guiding cross‑functional design discussions.
- Experience in news, media, UGC, or entertainment streaming services is a plus.
- Understanding of front‑end technologies to discuss implementation of dynamic backgrounds and interactive components with engineering.
- Experience implementing innovative design workflows at enterprise scale.
Compensation and Benefits
Pay Range: $231,000.00 – $429,000.00 per year.
Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short‑ and long‑term incentives, and program‑specific awards.
Benefits include health insurance, employee wellness programs, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, sick time, and vacation.
In compliance with local law, Warner Bros. Discovery is disclosing the compensation range for this role. Actual salaries will vary based on market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and performance.
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We are an equal‑opportunity employer and consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, or any other protected class. If you require accommodations during the application process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions.
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