Senior Product Designer, CNN Vault NFTs

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The Job

As a Senior Product Designer, you are a member of the world-class CNN Digital Product Design Team, which is responsible for creating industry-leading user experiences engaged by millions across the globe. CNN is driven by a shared commitment to put our users at the center of the experiences we build and to push the boundaries on what an exceptional digital experience can be. We believe that success is driven by the combined ability of content, design, product, and technology to achieve user delight.

The Senior Product Designer, CNN Vault will be directly partnering with the CNN Vault team within the CNN Digital organization. This is a seasoned user experience designer with a passion for defining the future of ecommerce at CNN with a specific focus on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). They are someone who loves direct to consumer experiences, ecommerce, product marketing, and thrives in a highly collaborative environment. They enjoy working with other product designers, product managers, engineers, researchers, content strategists, and community managers. They will be responsible for building, growing, and maturing the user experience of CNN Vault, a new product offering focusing on the sale of CNN content based NFTs.

• You will design meaningful experiences in-line with the Vault product vision, advocate for our users, and thrive in a highly collaborative workflow.
• You will advocate for new ideas with the ability to execute both thoughtful UX and intuitive UI design.
• You have an affinity for the general aficionado, collector, or NFT space specifically.
• Proven experience strategizing, conceptualizing, and launching ecommerce user experiences.
• You possess the ability to create multiple approaches to solve for each design problems and are eager and excited to receive feedback from Product Design, Product, and Tech to create the best possible solution.
• You embody a user-first, team-first mentality, and are constantly collaborating on ways to create world-class product experiences.
• Comfort and familiarity with digital transformation is required.

The Daily

• Work with a cross-functional team of product managers, development partners, motion designers, producers, and community managers to successfully evolve and expand our NFT offering to an ever-growing audience.
• Drive & execute on ecommerce and marketing design strategy.
• Create relevant and engaging user experiences for our users from ideation to product launch.
• Accountable for design strategy suitable for brand new ecommerce experiences, while aligning with existing CNN branding.
• Partner with product, engineering and design manager on rapid design and prototypes.
• Stay current with the NFT space and have an affinity for delivering experiences for unique product offerings.
• Employ user research, and analytics data to develop a deep understanding of how users engage, what matters to them and identify pain points.
• Create end-to-end customer journeys that inform new product features and provoke new businesses.
• Strive to provide a superior seamless product experience from daily improvements to longer-term strategies, that bridges a highly personalized experience with the web and native app experiences.
• Be highly communicative and responsive both within your team and across the company.

The Essentials

• Design Portfolio demonstrating strong UX and visual design solutions, with an emphasis on solving for ecommerce and direct to consumer user experiences.
• 5+ years related work experience as a Product Designer.
• Proven experience designing for individual and uniquely branded products.
• A solid understanding of UX software such as Sketch, Figma etc.
• Knowledge of prototyping tools to demonstrate personalization user experience is a nice-to-have.
• Ability to think strategically and partner with cross functional team members.
• Experience building world-class product experiences and streamlining workflows with continuous iteration and improvement.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• A solid understanding 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.
• Affinity towards blockchain technology and NFT.

The Perks

• Exclusive WarnerMedia events and advance screenings
• Paid time off every year to volunteer for eligible employees
• Access to well-being tools, resources, and freebies
• Access to in-house learning and development resources
• Part of the WarnerMedia family of powerhouse brands

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