Director of AI-Driven Publishing Platform Engineering

Condé Nast; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Condé Nast in New York is hiring a Director of Engineering for the Publishing Platform. You will lead a globally distributed team responsible for CMS, rights, planning, and content APIs, delivering scalable editor-facing tools across 70+ sites.

You’ll set technical direction, partner with principal engineers, and drive AI-native workflows while maintaining platform health and trust with product and editorial partners.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams building platforms as products.
• Experience owning content management or publishing-related internal platforms.
• Led distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones.
• Strong architectural judgment in content systems and API design.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with product, design and editorial partners.
• Experience driving AI-native workflows within a team.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a global group of engineering teams across CMS, rights, planning, and content API systems.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers and managers; raise the technical and delivery bar.
• Own the publishing platform roadmap in partnership with platform product management.
• Partner on key architectural decisions and ensure delivery aligns with strategy.
• Foster cross-functional partnerships with editorial and brand teams.

Skills

Team Leadership

Platform delivery

Architectural judgment

API design

Cross-functional collaboration

AI-native delivery

Tools

GraphQL

REST

MongoDB

AWS Lambda

Kafka

S3

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Condé Nast in New York is hiring a Director of Engineering for the Publishing Platform. You will lead a globally distributed team responsible for CMS, rights, planning, and content APIs, delivering scalable editor-facing tools across 70+ sites.

You’ll set technical direction, partner with principal engineers, and drive AI-native workflows while maintaining platform health and trust with product and editorial partners.