Director of Product Design, CNBC

Company Description VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

We are looking for an experienced Product Design Director to help build the future of CNBC’s digital products. This is an exciting time to be joining the product and technology team at Versant Media as we re-imagine CNBC’s digital experience for the future. CNBC has a large, affluent and influential audience, with deep brand resonance among retail investors. The opportunity is to translate that audience relationship into digital products and experiences that deliver greater value to consumers and support CNBC’s growth, including its subscription business. As Product Design Director, you will lead the design strategy and execution for CNBC’s digital products across web, mobile apps and OTT. You will work closely with product, technology, editorial, marketing and other cross-functional partners to understand customer needs, identify opportunities and create experiences that are useful, intuitive and distinctly CNBC. You will lead and develop a team of product designers and play a key role in establishing a high bar for product design across the organization. You will help the team balance customer needs, business objectives, editorial

and technical possibilities, while bringing strong product judgment and design taste to the products we build. This role is particularly well suited to someone with experience designing products for retail investors, fintech, financial information. Media experience a plus. A strong understanding of how investors consume financial news, research markets, discover investment ideas and use tools to make decisions is highly valuable. Experience designing AI-powered, personalized or data-rich products is also highly desired.