Director, Engineering, Front End

Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. HQ; World Trade Center (NY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Condé Nast in New York is seeking an engineering leader to own delivery of best-in-class customer experiences, roadmap and scale across brands. You will lead engineers building the web app framework and consumer-facing surfaces, ensuring pace, reliability and quality.

This role requires hands-on leadership across architecture, tech choices and people management, partnering with product, design and editorial; you will drive AI-native working practices while aligning teams across locations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams delivering consumer-facing web at scale.
• Experience leading distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones.
• Strong hands-on credibility in modern front-end / web platform engineering.
• Ability to build strong cross-functional partnerships with product, design and editorial.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Web applications team across multiple locations.
• Translate business goals into a credible technical roadmap and deliver against it.
• Set quality benchmarks and maintain momentum.
• Be hands-on: review code and unblock the team.
• Define technical direction with principal engineers and ensure adherence.
• Balance long-term architecture with short-term priorities to support business outcomes.
• Collaborate with product, design and editorial partners to align reader experience with engineering plans.
• Drive AI-native ways of working and responsible innovation.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed teams

Front-end / web platform

AI-native practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

React

TypeScript

Node.js

GraphQL

REST

Git

Job description

Condé Nast is one of the world's most renowned media publishing companies, creating and distributing every type of media today, spanning print and digital publishing in all formats. With a portfolio of some of today's most influential brands, the company continues to grow its audience through a global operational and content infrastructure across its 12 owned and operated markets. Headquartered in New York City, the company's owned and operated markets include China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, UAE/Dubai, the U.K., and the U.S., with additional local license partners in over twenty additional markets across the globe. Lead brands include Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Architectural Digest, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, Allure, Ars Technica, Bon Appétit, House & Garden, Pitchfork, Tatler, and Vogue Business.

Job Description Location: New York, NY

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the world's most iconic lifestyle, journalism, and fashion brands. We aim to inspire, inform and entertain our audiences through our portfolio of well known brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, GQ and many other leading brands. We are on a journey with the major transformation of teams and systems: organizing for speed, ownership and customer focus with smaller, independent teams, and being AI native in how we work. Engineering is responsible for building, deploying and scaling the experiences that serve our audiences globally across brands, and the consumer-facing surface of that is evolving to meet our audience’s needs.

About the Role

We are looking for an engineering leader to own how our organization delivers the best-in-class customer experiences, the product roadmap, scale and stability across every brand. You will lead the engineers who build and evolve our web application framework and the consumer-facing surfaces built on it, and you will be accountable for the pace, reliability and quality of what that team ships. This is a technical role focused on delivery, guiding the team on architecture, technologies and people management. You set technical direction in close partnership with our principal front-end architect and you are accountable for making sure the team builds to that direction and ships to it. You lead a globally distributed team from New York, working cross functionally with product, design and editorial partners who sit closest to our brands, and you own the health of those partnerships as much as the code.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow and develop the Web applications team spanning multiple locations, holding responsibility for their delivery, quality and reliability.
• Own execution of the team’s roadmap: turn business and product goals into a sequenced, credible plan and deliver against it, adjusting as outcomes dictate.
• Set clear quality benchmarks and hold the line on them while keeping momentum.
• Be a hands-on leader: close enough to the work to make sound calls, unblock the team quickly, understand the code to review and validate the technical decisions by the team, and stay credible with senior engineers.
• Set technical direction for the team in partnership with the principal/senior principal engineers, and make the team accountable to the agreed architecture, standards and performance budgets.
• Balance the long-term architecture and scalability of the systems against short-term deliverables that contribute to business outcomes, and make the trade-off calls transparently.
• Guide the team through the ongoing evolution of the web application stack without losing delivery pace or reader-experience quality.
• Build strong, trusted working relationships with product, design and editorial partners, helping translate reader-experience goals into engineering plans and engineering realities into language partners can act on.
• Align and set clear realistic expectations and status on delivery.
• Partner across the wider organization (data, revenue, enterprise technology and design) wherever the reader experience depends on it.
• Lead a distributed, tenured team with maturity: earn credibility with deeply experienced individual contributors with domain experience.
• Make AI-native ways of working real inside your team as a default, not an experiment.
• Raise the standard of AI-assisted engineering across the team, sharing effective practice and assessing its limits candidly, so speed comes without sacrificing quality or trust.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams building consumer-facing web at scale, with real accountability for delivery and quality.
• A track record of leading distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones.
• Strong hands-on technical credibility in modern front-end / web platform engineering; be able to set direction with senior architects and earn the respect of senior ICs.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, trusted relationships with product, design and other cross-functional partners.
• Experience driving AI-native ways of working within a team, not just tolerating them.
• Sound judgment on the trade-off between platform health and delivery speed.
• Strong written and verbal communication, and the maturity to lead through influence as much as authority.

Nice to Have

Background in media, publishing or other content-delivery platforms operating at high traffic and high editorial expectation. Experience leading a team through a platform rebuild, re-platform or significant technical transformation. Experience leading teams through organizational change while holding delivery and morale.

Our Tech Stack

Languages & Frameworks: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Astro, Node.js, GraphQL, REST

Delivery & Infra: CDN/Edge, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

Source Control: Git, GitHub

How We Work

Infrastructure as code everywhere. Quality Assurance is the team’s responsibility. Pairing and other techniques to facilitate knowledge sharing and upskilling. Works with peers and stakeholders across time zones and locations, with international colleagues across the US, Europe, and India. Teams own their apps, including on-call. AI-native by default and customer-obsessed in intent, with a bias toward placing real work in front of readers and allowing data to guide the next decision.

The expected base salary range for this position is from $210,000-240,000 Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to relevant skills, training, experience, and education.

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.

Condé Nast is a global media company home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, AD, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New Yorker, Glamour, Allure, Bon Appétit and many more. Headquartered in New York and London, the company produces award-winning journalism, content and entertainment for every platform today and operates in 32 markets worldwide including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the U.K. and U.S., and Taiwan.

At Condé Nast we value diversity of background, views and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, their skills and contributions. And we recognize the power our brands have to influence and shape culture, catalyze action and help make our world a better place for all.

For more information, please visit condenast.com and follow @CondeNast and @CondeNastCareer for Twitter and @condenastcareers for Instagram.