Product Designer, Direct-To-Consumer Cnbc

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service. Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. We believe that our workforce should represent the communities we live in, so that together, we can continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. Click here to learn more about Comcast NBCUniversal’s commitment and how we are making an impact.

About Us

At CNBC, our mission is to transform our customers’ experiences with their money through our world-class financial market coverage, business insights, personal finance news and helpful, informative services. Our digital and television products reach 385 million households worldwide, and we’ve got even more growth opportunities ahead. We’re looking for the next great product designer to join us in that adventure, and we’re hoping it’s you!

The Role

As a Product Designer on our CNBC team, you will ideate and grow our direct-to-consumer experiences to better serve customers through our trusted brands. You will work with a passionate, consumer-centric agile team to evolve our direct-to-consumer experiences for our users. This includes being a core contributor and co-facilitator in product discovery (research & synthesis, workshops, ideation), high-fidelity design solutions, and guiding those design solutions through the engineering process.

Success in this role is driven by the ability to collaborate with internal teams to grow the organization’s UX expertise and create delightful products. Key to this is staying current on customer needs and behaviors, particularly as they apply to our CNBC Pro and Investing Club experiences. This includes gathering input from and coordinating with teams like research, editorial, growth, broadcast, advertising, and business development to ensure a focus on data- driven design solutions that have been validated with real users.

What We Value

At NBCU, product designers are the customer advocates. We use human-centered thinking and empathy to understand customers’ behaviors and needs and create solutions for them. To accomplish this, we hold our collaborative relationships with our peers in high regard, preferring to overcommunicate and listen deeply. As a team, we are always seeking to improve by staying curious, acknowledging that the right way is rarely the easy way, and proactively seeking solutions. Organizationally, we ensure that product designers have clear career growth opportunities that are fostered by coaching & mentoring by design leaders.

Qualifications

Required Product Design Skills

• 5+ years of experience as a full-stack product designer who utilizes a data-driven, human-centric approach to product design and development
• Channel broader design vision and articulate product design strategy via visual artifacts
• 5+ years of experience with Product Discovery, Design Thinking, Lean UX
• Exceptional ability to present and visually communicate
• Build low-fi to high-fi designs as needed in the product development process to run design reviews and to gain buy-in on ideas
• Have an innovation-style mindset to find better ways of working, collaborating and finding efficiencies (for internal and external users).
• 3+ years of experience designing for financial media
• Proven ability to utilize design thinking and facilitation skills to gather insights and inputs from internal stakeholders
• 5+ years of experience with designing rich interactive visualizations for large data sets

Required Practical Design Skills

• Experience and knowledge in finance, investing, and market data
• Robust design skills, including interaction design, layout, typography, and color
• Work within, and contribute to, our design systems as well as cross-platform visual systems and languages
• 3+ years experience in market data
• Experience building data graphics and an understanding of usability implications across platforms
• A sense of humor and gratitude for others
• Understanding of usability & accessibility best practices across platforms throughout the design process
• Ability to clearly document interactions, edge-cases, & the various states of these experiences through deliverables such as user flows, wireframes, and prototypes
• 5+ years of experience with contemporary design, prototyping tools, and methods
• 5+ years’ experience developing or contributing into design systems

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.

Salary range: $110,000-$130,000

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.

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