Principal Product Manager, Front End Platform

Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. HQ; World Trade Center (NY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Condé Nast is seeking a Principal Product Manager to own the strategy for the audience platform powering Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ and more. You will partner with engineering and design to ensure fast, beautiful, accessible experiences across brand sites and apps.

You’ll define metrics for performance, SEO and content quality, drive developer velocity, and lead data-driven decisions with an eye toward AI-enabled improvements and scale.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years in product management, with platform or infrastructure focus.
• Strong consumer product instincts and ability to balance quality with speed.
• Familiarity with front-end rendering, performance, SEO, and design systems.
• Experience across web and mobile products and collaboration with editors/engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the audience platform strategy for Condé Nast brands.
• Define metrics and dashboards to measure platform health and adoption.
• Collaborate with engineering and design to plan and deliver platform capabilities.
• Set targets for performance, developer velocity and content experience quality.

Skills

Product management

Platform experience

Front end technology

Data & analytics

Communication

Tools

Storybook

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.

Location

New York, NY

Job Description

Condé Nast's audience platform is the front end that powers every digital experience across Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Bon Appétit, Vanity Fair, Wired and the rest of the portfolio. That means page performance, content rendering, ad delivery, SEO, design system components, accessibility and everything else that determines how millions of readers actually experience our brands on our owned properties and beyond. Wherever our content shows up (on-site, in apps, through syndication, on social, in search) the audience platform is the foundation. Advertisers depend on it. Brand teams build on it. It needs to be fast, beautiful and reliable. We're looking for a Principal PM to own the strategy for this platform. Your job is to make sure our front end enables best-in-class experiences for every brand and every piece of content, wherever it reaches an audience. You'll need to deeply understand two things: what makes a great consumer experience and what makes a great platform for the teams building those experiences. That tension is core to the role and you should be energized by it. You should also think about AI the way we do: not as a feature to bolt on but as something that changes how platform teams build, ship and maintain software. We want someone who's already working this way and can bring that mindset to how we evolve the audience platform. The Role You're a platform PM. But you're not here to build "platform value" in the abstract. You're here because the front end is where readers and advertisers meet our brands. Every decision you make should connect back to that. You'll be the person who holds the full picture: page performance, content rendering, ad product delivery, SEO, design system consistency, accessibility, developer velocity. You'll work across brand teams to understand what they need. You'll partner deeply with engineering and design to figure out what to build and what to leave alone. You'll make hard calls about standardization vs. flexibility and you'll be able to explain why. What you'll do Understand the customer. You have two. Readers who experience our brands through the audience platform and the internal teams who build on it. You spend real time understanding both. You know what good looks like for a consumer content experience across every surface (our own sites, apps, feeds, anywhere our content lives). You know what ad products need from the front end to perform. You don't treat "the platform" as an end in itself. It exists to make our brands' content shine wherever audiences find it. Partner with eng and design. This is not a "throw requirements over the wall" role. You sit with engineering and design as a peer. You understand front end architecture well enough to have real conversations about trade-offs. You write clear specs. You also know when to stay loose and figure it out together. Have a point of view on what great looks like. You know what best-in-class looks like for a consumer content experience and you hold us to that standard. You benchmark against the best publishers and platforms out there. You have real opinions about performance, page experience, ad density, load time, readability. You set targets that push toward the 95th percentile and you track them obsessively. But you also bring taste. You can look at a page and feel when something is off before the data tells you. The combination of metrics rigor and editorial instinct is what makes this role work. Measure what matters. You define clear metrics for platform health: performance, quality, adoption, developer experience, consumer outcomes, ad delivery. You build dashboards and rituals that keep the team honest. You know the difference between a vanity metric and a useful one. Get comfortable in the mess. Platform work at a multi-brand company is inherently messy with competing priorities, legacy systems and ambiguity about who owns what. You don't wait for things to be clean before you move. You can hold complexity without being paralyzed by it. Think with AI, not just about it. You already use AI in your daily work. You've thought about where AI can meaningfully change platform workflows: component generation, documentation, QA, design-to-code pipelines, smarter defaults for brand teams. You can tell the difference between a demo that looks cool and a capability that actually reduces toil. You bring practical recommendations to the team and you help prioritize AI investment alongside everything else on the roadmap. Stay curious. The front end landscape moves fast. You stay close to what's emerging in tooling, frameworks and AI-powered development. You bring perspective on what's worth adopting vs. what's noise. You read broadly and you form your own opinions. What you bring 10+ years in product management. Meaningful time on platform or infrastructure products. Multi-brand or multi-product experience is a strong plus. Real understanding of front end technology. You know your way around rendering, performance optimization, SEO, component architecture and design systems. You don't write code but you can read a PR and follow a technical discussion. Consumer product instincts. You've worked on products where the end user is a real person reading or watching or browsing. You understand engagement, retention and content experience quality. You pay attention to what competitors and best-in-class publishers are doing and you bring that context to your team. Familiarity with digital advertising. You understand how ad products intersect with front end performance and UX. You know why page speed and layout stability matter to revenue and not just to Lighthouse scores. Comfort with ambiguity. You've operated in large orgs where the path wasn't clear. You've driven alignment without direct authority across multiple teams with competing needs. Strong communication skills. You write well. You present well. You can make platform strategy make sense to an editor-in-chief and a staff engineer in the same week. You've worked across web and mobile (iOS/Android). You're good with data and analytics tooling. You can define metrics and actually track them. What we'd love but won't require Hands-on experience with design systems (Storybook, Figma component libraries, design tokens). product strategy around AI capabilities and you can point to real examples. The expected base salary range for this position is from $185,000-215,000. 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.