Jim Lane

Senior Director of Product Design, CNN Digital

Jim Lane is Senior Director of Product Design for CNN Digital Revenue, Growth and Commerce products. In this role he leads design for advertising and other revenue products, customer lifecycle management, messaging and newsletters, and CNN Underscored.
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Jim Lane is Senior Director of Product Design for CNN Digital Revenue, Growth and Commerce products. In this role he leads design for advertising and other revenue products, customer lifecycle management, messaging and newsletters, and CNN Underscored.

For over 20 years he has led teams in both startups and large organizations such as Netscape/America Online, AddThis (acquired by Oracle Data Cloud), Contactually (acquired by Compass), and Virtru, a data protection and privacy startup.

Jim is also a mentor, coach, and community organizer. In 2012 he founded NoVA UX, a Meetup group for user experience professionals in the Northern Virginia/DC metro area which offered monthly speakers, workshops, and other UX-oriented events.

Growing up in southwestern Pennsylvania, Jim attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Psychology. He later attended Berklee College of Music in Boston to study film scoring. He currently lives in Northern Virginia with his family.