Lead Product Designer, The New Yorker

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Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, CN Traveller, Vanity Fair, Wired, The World of Interiors, House & Garden and Tatler, among many others. 

We are headquartered in New York and London and operate in 32 markets worldwide, with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers across print, digital, video and social platforms.

Condé Nast thrives on collaboration, and our teams come together in the office four days a week (Monday - Thursday).

We value diversity of background, views and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, skills and contributions, recognising the power our brands have to influence and shape culture. 

Condé Nast Technology builds the products, systems, and experiences that power our brands — from Vogue and The New Yorker to GQ, Wired, and Vanity Fair. Our mission is to enable creativity and business growth through next-generation publishing, loyalty, and commerce platforms.

We're a global team of designers, engineers, product managers, and researchers, working across London, New York, and twelve other markets. We believe that a well-formed design culture is essential to delivering excellent products — and we're actively investing in building one.

You move easily between system and brand thinking, understanding how shared components underpin consistency, and how to stretch them to deliver distinctive brand expression. You value clarity, rhythm, and restraint, and you know that craft is often what separates good from great.

• You have a genuine love for editorial design and storytelling — you feel the difference between a reading experience that sings and one that merely works

• You move easily between system and brand thinking, knowing where shared components create coherence and where a brand's voice warrants something purpose-built

• You're someone who interrogates briefs, questions assumptions, and brings a point of view — not just someone who executes what's asked

• You're technically fluent: comfortable in Figma, Cursor / Claude and GitHub, familiar with design tokens and front-end constraints, and able to engage engineers at the implementation level

• You've already changed how you work because of AI tools, and you're curious about what changes next

• You're outcome-oriented — you care about how the work performs, not just how it looks in a review

• You're a strong communicator: direct, open, and as comfortable receiving feedback as giving it

• You're a self-starter who doesn't need the path fully defined to move with confidence

In your first six months, you'll have made a measurable improvement to the quality of The New Yorker's digital experience — something tangible that the team and the brand can point to. You'll have built the cross-functional trust needed to keep pushing: with product, engineering, and editorial. You'll have a clear picture of what the next phase of TNY's product experience should look like and why, and you'll have started to introduce new ways of working — including AI-assisted methods — that raise the pace and quality of the team's output.

By the end of your first year, that improvement will be visible in the metrics that matter: quality, engagement, and reader loyalty. You'll have a considered, well-grounded point of view on the long-term direction of TNY's digital experience, and the relationships to advocate for it. The new ways of working you introduced will be embedded — not experiments, but how the team operates.

We're looking for evidence that you can apply design craft, judgement, and systems thinking to real publishing experiences. Your portfolio should show:

Please upload your CV and cover letter/portfolio, which highlights why you'd love to take on this role and why you're a great match for what we're looking for.

We value the time and effort behind every application. All submissions are reviewed by a member of our talent team - we don’t use AI-assisted technology to review applications.  

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.

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.