Staff Product Manager - Design Systems

Base pay range

$142,800.00 / yr - $265,200.00 / yr

Your New Role

The CNN Digital Design System Team is part of the Content Platforms team, focused on building the next-generation platform that powers CNN on all digital surfaces. This team is responsible for building and scaling our cross-platform web, mobile, and video design system that is the backbone of our high-quality experiences that informs, empowers and engages users with CNN's trusted journalism. Our Design System, Vossi, is young and in hyper-growth mode. This is an incredible opportunity to get in on the ground floor as we scale.

We are looking for an experienced Staff Product Manager to deliver the design system as a foundational capability for all product development teams and partner across the organization to ensure all our products and experiences represent our identity, streamline product development efforts through reuse and standards, ensure top performance, and support new experiences ongoing.

As the Staff Product Manager on the CNN Digital Design System Team, you\'ll manage the roadmap for this critical capability, drive adoption of the design system, and continue to evolve the product based on feedback and technology advances. You\'ll work in a collaborative, cross-functional environment with architecture, engineering, and design to deliver, govern and grow the design system. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across CNN.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Collaborate with cross functional peers to build, govern and grow the CNN Digital Design System.
• Maintain and evolve the Design System and support use cases across platforms and by over 10 different teams.
• Transform the design system vision into a product strategy and execution roadmap.
• Set key performance metrics and OKRs to define success for the platform, including adoption rate as the primary metric.
• Create UI kits, components and provide guidelines & documentation for use by our Designers and Engineers.
• Be a lead advocate for the Design System to enable consistent experiences, reuse and efficient product design and development across CNN.
• Gather, prioritize and document platform requirements, facilitate trade-off discussions and plan and manage interdependencies.
• Identify and mitigate risks, tracing progress, resolving conflicts, ensuring quality and reporting on status.
• Partner with data visualization UX leads to manage visualizations standards and component library that supports use cases across organization.
• Conduct market analysis on new technologies, tools, workflows to evolve the design system.
• Evangelize platform across CNN and support internal customers in its use.

Qualifications and Experience

How We Get Things Done

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 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.

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Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to 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, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law. If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and / or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and / or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range : $142,800.00 - $265,200.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

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