Senior Designer, Story Design & UX, CNN

About this role

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Your New Role...  

CNN’s global Visuals team is looking for a senior designer who can shape distinctive,   intuitive   and visually compelling digital journalism. This role will focus on story design and user experience across a wide range of formats, from quick-turn news   moment s to medium- and long-term enterprise projects.  

You will collaborate with reporters, editors, developers, data   journalists   and other designers to   determine   how stories should be structured,   presented   and experienced by audiences. You should be as comfortable developing a clear visual system for a breaking news explainer as you are designing a deeply reported interactive feature or a reusable approach for ongoing coverage.  

The strongest candidates will bring excellent visual taste, a reader-first   mindset   and an ability to simplify complex information .   You will help CNN’s Visuals team raise the quality and consistency of our storytelling while continuing to experiment with new formats and approaches.  

Your Role Accountabilities …  

• Lead the visual and UX design of digital stories across breaking news, daily coverage and medium- to long-term enterprise projects.  

• Work closely with editors,   reporters   and developers to   identify   the strongest structure,   hierarchy   and visual approach for each story.  

• Design story experiences that integrate text, graphics, maps,   video,   photography, illustration,   audio,   motion   and interactive elements where   appropriate .  

• Develop clear wireframes, prototypes, design   systems   and polished visual treatments for custom storytelling projects.  

• Create thoughtful approaches for presenting complex information across mobile,   desktop   and other platforms.  

• Contribute to   quick-turn coverage by developing clear,   effective   and visually distinctive treatments on   deadline .  

• Collaborate with developers to ensure that designs are responsive, accessible,   performant   and   feasible   within project timelines.  

• Identify   opportunities to improve reusable design patterns,   templates   and workflows across CNN’s visual journalism.  

• Help adapt visual stories and graphics for home screens,   apps   and off-platform distribution.  

• Participate in editorial brainstorming and bring forward original ideas for visual storytelling.  

• Share design feedback, document   approaches   and support a strong culture of craft and collaboration across the Visuals team.  

Qualifications & Experience…    

• At least   7   years of experience in digital design, product design, editorial design, visual   journalism   or a comparable creative environment.  

• A strong portfolio   demonstrating   excellent story design, UX judgment, information   hierarchy   and visual craft across a range of formats.  

• Experience designing digital experiences for mobile and desktop audiences.  

• Strong understanding of typography, layout, interaction design, responsive   design   and accessibility.  

• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, motion design,   illustration   or design systems is a plus.  

• Experience working collaboratively with editors, reporters,   developers   and other designers from   initial   concept   through publication.  

• Ability to balance fast-turn assignments with more ambitious medium- and long-term projects.  

• A reader-first mindset and an ability to make complex stories clear,   intuitive   and engaging.  

• Comfort creating wireframes, prototypes and polished designs using tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite or similar platforms.  

• Strong communication   skills and the ability to explain design decisions clearly and constructively.  

• Familiarity with data visualization, news graphics, interactive   storytelling   or newsroom workflows is strongly preferred.  

• Experience designing election results experiences, live news   products   or other complex data-driven storytelling (or an interest in shaping clear, intuitive election coverage for audiences) is a plus.  

If you   don’t   have every one of these skills,   that’s   OK. We want to hear from candidates who are passionate about this work and eager to bring their unique perspective and experience to the role.  

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