VP of Product, Publishing Platforms

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video and social platforms. The company’s portfolio includes many of the world’s most respected and influential media properties including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.Job Description

Location:

New York, NY

About Condé Nast:
Condé Nast stands as a distinguished media powerhouse, celebrated for curating top-tier content for the globe's most impactful audiences. Engaging over a billion consumers through its cutting-edge print, digital, and video brands, the portfolio proudly features some of the most iconic titles in the media landscape - from Architectural Digest and Bon Appétit to Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and WIRED. 

Consistently delivering excellence, Condé Nast extends its influence across 32 markets worldwide, with headquarters in both London and New York, embodying a commitment to quality and innovation.

About Condé Nast Technology:
At Condé Nast Technology, our mission is to fuel the success of our brands in both business and creativity by crafting the next-generation of content publishing, loyalty, and commerce experiences. We are a collective of product managers, designers, engineers, strategists, and researchers united in our dedication to building innovative, user-centric products. 

As part of our dynamic team, you will collaborate with international colleagues and engage with stakeholders in our US and UK headquarters, as well as across our 10 other markets. We emphasize cross-functional collaboration; you will work closely with teams in Product, Engineering, Architecture, Design, UX, and Data, as well as our business partners in Consumer Marketing, Commercial, Licensing, Editorial, and Brand.

About the role:

Condé Nast is looking for a VP of Product Management for our Publishing Platform. The role requires a minimum of 7-10 years experience building consumer and internal facing products including: editorial content management systems tools, front end design systems and architectures, search engine optimization, content distribution and syndication, and taxonomy/tagging solutions.

These custom-built solutions serve 3 distinct customers globally: editors, end users, and internal product, design and engineering teams. The overall remit will encompass:

• Supporting our editors in creating, curating, and syndicating world class content experiences using content management systems and content APIs.

• Facilitating product, design, and engineering teams in building functionality that integrates with or extends our CMS and front-end systems.

• Standardizing functionality and implementing governance best practices in order to surface additional commercial capacity and allow us to move faster as a technology organization.

Our mission is to build the tools that enable creative talent to produce content for our portfolio of global brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, and Glamour which currently reaches over 500 million monthly users. You will be collaborating with colleagues across the world, working with stakeholders in our US, UK and India HQs as well as within our 10 other markets. We strongly emphasize cross-functional collaboration, partnering directly with our functional pillars in Technology Engagement, Customer Data, and Revenue. 

Experience with end-to-end testing frameworks and improving deployment pipeline efficiency is essential.

The VP of Product Management will oversee products serving internal cross-functional teams, editors, business analysts, and partnership strategists. This position will guide the direction of our future architectures that power our full content lifecycle, from PLAN, CREATE, PACKAGE, DISTRIBUTE to GLOBALLY ENABLE. Each of these areas will be staffed with distinct teams under this person’s direction. 

This role reports to the SVP of Product and Design.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the product roadmap for the beating heart of our Technology organization – all systems supporting the content lifecycle. 

• Articulate and tirelessly drive key results for the publishing platform teams, including: PLAN, CREATE, PACKAGE, DISTRIBUTE and GLOBALLY ENABLE. These would be around efficiency, uptime, editor satisfaction, page speed, scale, satisfaction, to name just a few

• Manage brand management for global brands and enable features to support a plug-and-play architecture with minimal core customization.

• Balance quarterly delivery needs with multi-year strategic goals for multiple core systems.

• Expand existing publishing platform capabilities and functionality based on input from cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Note that a key stakeholder is the commerce team who depends heavily on the CMS to drive our affiliate business. Affiliate commerce experience is a big plus here.

• Drive the development of new storytelling capabilities and digital experiences through better layout generation strategies, spearheaded through a new architectural approach, meant to help us optimize dynamic page creation.

• Work with revenue, data and engagement product leadership to determine holistic solutions to business challenges. Areas that will require cross-functional strategy include: data capture, execution on advertisement libraries, activating server side experimentation frameworks

• Collaborate with members throughout the company to identify areas of need and solutions that solve these challenges.

• Communicate with multiple teams and staff on priorities, tasks, and goals.

• Develop and execute a publishing platform technology strategy. 

• Devising and delivering SEO and page performance improvements.

• Supporting the maintenance and growth of a multi-tenant web application and design system.

• Working with editors, designers and developers on improving the functionality of our core content types (articles, galleries, reviews, recipes)

• Representing the global platform team roadmaps and strategic goals to technology and business leadership.

• Hiring and managing globally geolocated teams and establishing metrics for their ongoing success.

• Partnering with stakeholders in design, editorial, engineering, and analytics, as well as sales, ad and revenue operations to achieve outcomes.

• Strong use of insight and data todrive decision-making

• Fostering a culture of experimentation and iterative growth.

Essential Skills:

• Requires a minimum of 7-10 years experience managing product experiences for consumer brands (ideally in the media industry)

• Requires a minimum of 10 years working with stakeholders to define product strategy, ideally within the publishing industry

• Proven ability to work under pressure and manage multiple deadlines.

• Experience working in a matrixed organization, juggling requests from multiple stakeholders.

• A track record of building, maintaining and managing strong relationships within an international business and across many different stakeholder groups.

• Experience managing product managers in India, the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe with a proven ability to communicate effectively across languages and cultures.

• Experience working with and developing SaaS and/or Enterprise tooling

• Experience managing design systems across multiple teams

• Working knowledge of the React framework and node.js

• Some SQL or Python query writing abilities

• Demonstrated grasp of the latest SaaS, Enterprise, Publishing, SEO tools and techniques for improving page performance

• Self-driven, motivated, with the ability to drive objectives and see projects through to completion.

• You have excellent written and verbal English communication skills

• Ability to communicate technical concepts and project status to diverse audiences.

• You love working with a global team and are flexible to adjust hours accordingly

• Committed to raising the bar on all work and sharing best practices.

• You demonstrate the ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively

Desirable Skills:

• Experience and/or interest in working in content production industries

• Experience with user generated content features

• Experience in maximizing live events through rich media

• Experience in applying AI to enhance an experience or feature

The expected base salary range for this position is from $265,000 - $295,000. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to relevant skills, training, experience, and education.

A note: research indicates that women and individuals from marginalized groups tend to apply only when they meet all of the criteria. If you believe you’re qualified, but don’t necessarily check every box, please submit an application.

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What happens next?

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Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.