Company Description
NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. It is the policy of NBCUniversal and NBCUniversal’s affiliated businesses to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
With CNBC in the U.S., Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, CNBC World, and CNBC HD, CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news and provides real-time financial market coverage and business information to approximately 371 million homes worldwide, including more than 100 million households in the United States and Canada. CNBC also provides daily business updates to 400 million households across China. The network’s 15 live hours a day of business programming in North America (weekdays from 4:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC’s global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. By night, CNBC Prime is an entertainment network with a programming slate that is an extension of CNBC’s distinct brand. CNBC’s highly successful series are produced exclusively for CNBC, along with a number of distinctive in-house documentaries.
CNBC also has a vast portfolio of digital products which deliver real-time financial market news and information across a variety of platforms. These include CNBC.com, the online destination for global business; CNBC PRO, the premium, integrated desktop/mobile service that provides real-time global market data and live access to CNBC global programming; and a suite of CNBC Mobile products including the CNBC Real-Time iPhone and iPad Apps.
The Job
Job Description
- Lead, coach, and mentor a passionate, consumer-centric product design team to create and evolve CNBC digital subscription products that serve millions of CNBC customers.
- Channel broader CNBC design vision and articulate product design strategy via visual storytelling and artifacts.
- Develop and grow deep expertise on customer needs and behaviors as they apply to subscriptions & data as well as the larger business & industry.
- Shape design strategy and vision for CNBC digital partner experiences, multi-tenant design systems and cross-platform UX
- Set cohesive strategy and vision to elevate our digital products and work with cross-functional teams to deliver value for customers and business.
- Innovate and ideate on how to get the work done as well as on the work itself.
- Partner and collaborate with internal teams including CX and UX research, editorial, marketing, broadcast, advertising, business development and others
- Be a model for team communication when managing peer and stakeholder relationships and expectations
- Strong grasp of theories, concepts, and methods of UX research and user-centered design
- Model and share frameworks to do design research, synthesis, ideation and facilitation.
- Ensures team’s hard skills in design, discovery, and domain expertise are at level.
- Coach and advocate for your team, inspiring and elevating them to their best potential.
- Actively manages direct reports, setting goals and gives follow-up feedback.
- Develop team career planning and growth with individual career plans, reviews, training, 1:1 feedback and assignments.
Required Qualifications
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience as a product designer with successful outcomes for digital products, reaching millions of users, preferably in a media context.
- 7+ years of experience as a hiring, managing, and mentoring successful multiple designers.
- 3+ years of design system experience
You
- Managed high performing team of in-house designers who were embedded in Pods, Agile or Scrum teams
- Advocate for design best practices, integrating UX Research and building meaningful customer experiences.
- Expert in design research with a dedicated human-centered approach to problem solving.
- Highly experienced in design thinking and product discovery.
- Excellent communication and presentation capabilities, articulating ideas effectively and without bias.
- High energy level and a strong work ethic, someone who is self-driven.
- Systems-thinker with deep knowledge of cross-platform design & visual system creation and effective implementation.
- Digital platform, design system, domain spaces (video, authentication, e-commerce) and news industry subject matter expertise.
- Takes an active, participatory role in defining how, what and why the work we do is approached and executed (explain the “why”).
- Prioritization and multi-tasking skills
- Comfortable managing design operations.
- Holds the team accountable for high quality product design and timely cross-functional communication.
- Experience with or interested in finance, investing, market data.
- Strong opinions, loosely held.
- A sense of humor and gratitude for others.
If this sounds like you, and you’re excited to work with great people and the leader in business worldwide, we’d love to meet up! If interested, send us a resume and a link to your portfolio.
Note: this position is based out of our spacious, modern CNBC offices on the river in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, with its on-site cafeteria, masseuse, shoe-shine, dry-cleaning, and full-featured, free fitness center. New Yorkers, don’t panic – a convenient, complimentary shuttle is available from points throughout the NYC metro area!
Additional Information
NBCUniversal’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access nbcunicareers.com as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations in the US by calling 1-818-777-4107 and in the UK by calling +44 2036185726.
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