Director, Engineering, Publishing Platform

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

Job summary

Condé Nast is seeking a Director of Engineering for the Publishing Platform to lead a globally distributed team responsible for CMS, rights, planning and content APIs across 70+ sites. You will set technical direction, partner with product and editorial teams, and drive AI-native workflows to improve speed, quality and platform health while delivering scalable, product-like platforms.

This role requires strong architectural judgment, hands-on review of designs, and the ability to translate goals

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams building platforms as products with delivery accountability.
• Experience owning content management, publishing, or internal-platform systems.
• Track record leading distributed teams across multiple locations/time zones.
• Hands-on depth to review designs and code and engage with senior ICs.
• Strong architectural judgment in content systems, API design, and content workflows.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with product, design, and cross-functional partners.
• Experience driving AI-native workflows within a team, not just tolerance.
• Judgment on platform health vs delivery speed.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a global engineering team across CMS, rights, planning and content APIs.
• Own the platform roadmap in partnership with product management; align with editorial needs and technical debt.
• Collaborate with editorial, product and brand engineering partners to translate goals into platform plans.
• Drive AI-native delivery for authoring and editorial workflows; promote effective practices and balance speed with quality.

Skills

Team Leadership

Platform Engineering

API Design

Distributed Teams

AI-native Practices

Cross-functional Collaboration

Communication

Tools

GraphQL

REST

MongoDB

AWS Lambda

Kafka

S3

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

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

Director of Engineering, Publishing Platform

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

The Publishing Platform engineering team builds and operates the systems our editors and brand teams rely on every day: our content management system, rights management, editorial planning, and the content APIs that serve our brand experiences globally across more than 70 sites. It is a genuinely multi-tenant platform and its customers are internal: editors, producers, brand product teams, and the engineering teams that build on top of it. 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 engineers 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

• Team Leadership & Delivery Manage and grow a global group of engineering teams across CMS, rights, planning, and content API systems, led by engineering managers and tech leads reporting to you. Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers and managers; raise the technical and delivery bar across the group. Ensure operational excellence or systems that sit on the critical path of every brand, every day. Ownership of uptime, performance, and reliability.
• Technical Direction Own the publishing platform roadmap in partnership with platform product management, balancing brand demand, editorial needs, structural investment, and technical debt. Partner with principal engineering on key architectural decisions ahead: content model and format strategy, API contracts, and the consolidation of our authoring toolchain. Treat the platform as a product: define and improve the contribution surface that lets brand teams ship on the platform quickly and safely, with governance built into the rails rather than enforced by review.
• Cross-Functional Partnership Build strong, trusted working relationships with editorial, product, and brand engineering partners by translating their goals into platform plans and platform realities into terms they can act on. Set clear expectations and communicate on delivery with a focus on ensuring the team fulfills commitments. Partner across the wider organization (consumer experience, data, revenue, and enterprise technology) wherever the content pipeline touches their systems.
• AI-Native Delivery Drive the evolution of authoring and editorial workflows for an AI-assisted world — from AI-supported content creation to agentic workflows in production tooling. 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 and running platforms as products, with real accountability for delivery and quality.
• Experience owning content management, publishing, or comparable internal-platform systems.
• A track record of leading distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones.
• Sufficient hands-on depth to review designs and code, engage credibly with senior ICs, and contribute directly when it matters.
• Strong architectural judgment in content systems: content modeling, structured content vs. markup tradeoffs, API design (GraphQL/REST), and the seams between authoring, storage, and delivery.
• 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 Experience in media, publishing, or another editorial-tooling-intensive domain.
• Familiarity with rights management, editorial planning, or media asset workflows.
• Experience leading platform consolidation or re-architecture while the platform remains in continuous production use.

Our Tech Stack Languages & Frameworks

Languages & Frameworks: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, REST, MongoDB, AWS Lambda, Kafka, S3 Delivery & Infra: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform Source Control: Git, GitHub 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.

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