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About the Role

A+E Global Media Digital Content & Platforms team is focused on creating illuminating and entertaining content for the most expansive audience possible by meeting audiences wherever and however they consume content. This role is key to meeting that North Star, using technology in fresh ways and shaping narratives from idea to digital form. As an employee of A+E Global Media, you’ll be part of a global media and entertainment company that values diversity, representation, flexibility and kindness.

Responsibilities

Lead complex, high-impact product design efforts through deep collaboration with all members of the Experience Team across disciplines (UX, User Research and Design), as well as with Product, Technology, Project Management, Editorial, Marketing, and various stakeholders.
Validate design approach via user research, business goals, and technical feasibility.
Drive conceptual design and experience definition for prioritized product enhancements, including competitive research, collaborating with UX/user research and the initial translation of business and user goals into applied UI designs.
Produce and refine principal-level applied UI designs in Figma that establish the quality bar for platform-native experiences, incorporating iterative feedback, accessibility best practices, and platform-specific guidelines.
Deliver comprehensive, development-ready design specifications in Figma to one or more engineering teams, including all relevant states, breakpoints, behaviors, and annotations.
Partner closely with Product, Technology, and Project Management throughout planning and delivery to ensure design intent is clearly understood, technically feasible, and fully represented within development and QA workflows.
Provide ongoing design support throughout development and QA to ensure successful execution, including resolving design-related blockers.
Conduct design acceptance reviews on development builds to validate alignment with intended design and identify issues prior to release.
Provide people leadership for the Product Design team, including performance management, coaching, career development, and ongoing feedback.
Establish and uphold a high bar for design quality across platforms by setting clear expectations, guiding critique and review practices, and ensuring consistency in craft, usability, and experience outcomes.
Serve as a senior design representative in cross-functional planning and stakeholder forums, advocating for user-centered solutions while balancing technical feasibility, timelines, and business priorities.
Partner with Design Systems team members to support the evolution, adoption, and governance of shared patterns, standards, and workflows.
Partner with the Senior Director, Experience Design in the oversight of resourcing and capacity planning across multiple initiatives, ensuring appropriate skill alignment, effective utilization, and sustainable delivery.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in Product Design, UX/UI, or a related field, delivering high-quality, consumer-facing digital products.
5+ years of people management experience, or demonstrated leadership through mentoring, initiative ownership, or cross-team design leadership.
Proven experience operating within agile product teams across the full product development lifecycle, from discovery and concept definition through delivery, iteration, and optimization.
Demonstrated leadership in contributing to, evolving, or setting direction for a design system supporting multiple digital platforms.
Strong track record of leading high-impact design initiatives, managing multiple concurrent workstreams, and driving clarity, alignment, and progress across cross-functional teams.
A well-articulated design point of view grounded in strong fundamentals, including typography, layout, hierarchy, color, and composition, and the ability to apply these principles consistently across platforms.
Demonstrated ability to partner closely with engineering teams to deliver scalable, technically sound design solutions that balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
Confidence presenting work at a senior level and clearly articulating design rationale, trade-offs, and decisions to a wide range of stakeholders, including executive audiences.
Experience designing for connected TV and Smart TV platforms is a plus.
Familiarity with CMS-driven and content-heavy product experiences, including publishing workflows and content modeling, is a plus.

Skills

Product Design
UX/UI
Figma
Design Systems
Human Interface Guidelines
Material Design
Accessibility standards

Location

New York City
Los Angeles
Chicago
Stamford, CT
Remote (eligible states: California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming)

Work Type

Remote
Hybrid
Full-time in office

Experience Level

Director

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in design or a related discipline (or equivalent professional experience)

Salary/Compensations

$188,034 - $220,000

Benefits

Healthcare coverage
401k matching

About the Company

A+E Global Media is a global media and entertainment company.
Forbes named us one of America’s Best Midsize Employers for consecutive years.
Newsweek named us in their list of America’s Most Loved Workplaces, as well as their list of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity, LGBTQ+ and Women employees.
A+E Global Media is a joint venture of the Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.
A+E Global Media® is a collection of culture brands that includes A&E®, The HISTORY® Channel, Lifetime®, LMN®, FYI®, VICE TV and BIOGRAPHY®.
We are in seven out of 10 American homes and have a cumulative reach of 342 million people worldwide.
We also have 500+ million digital users across our sites and streaming apps, which include A&E Crime Central, HISTORY Vault and Lifetime Movie Club.
We are in the story business, and just as the industry and art form have evolved, so have we.
Since our founding in 1983 with just two cable channels, we have grown into a multiplatform, multimedia, multigenre content creator.

Equal Opportunity

A+E Global Media proudly provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants, and makes employment decisions consistent with this principle.
The company’s employment actions and decisions – including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, demotion, compensation, transfer, layoff, and termination – are made without regard to an employee’s race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin, ancestry, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, alienage or citizenship status, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, family and medical leave status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.