Staff Product Manager - Design Systems

Staff Product Manager – Design Systems

Company	Warner Bros.
Location	Washington, DC, USA, New York, NY, USA, Atlanta, GA, USA
Salary	$142800 – $265200
Type	Full-Time
Degrees
Experience Level	Senior, Expert or higher

7+ years product management or engineering work experience (at least 4 years product management)
A technical understanding of Design Systems (preferably at scale) that enables Design and Engineering teams. Tools we use: Figma, zeroheight, Jira, Confluence
A firm grasp across key concepts in UI, UX in web, app, TVE design, and accessibility standards
Experience with change management governance processes
Experience rolling out new tools or capabilities, including training/supporting cross-functional internal customers
Experience across geographically distributed teams (multiple tech hubs)
Excellent communication, facilitation, interpersonal skills, to clearly communicate and lead a diverse, multi-disciplinary team. Able to translate technical concepts to a business and non-technical audience
Experience working in SCRUM/Agile frameworks
A team player able to build and maintain technical relationships, to manage priorities and demands from stakeholders across the company, and create consensus and approvals without direct reporting lines
Strong work ethic, integrity and collaborative approach to work. Willingness to roll up your sleeves and get things done
Quick to learn and understand new technical concepts and technologies. Takes smart risks and champions new ideas

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