Lead Product Designer, er

Condé Nast is a global media company with iconic brands such as The New Yorker, Vogue, GQ, and many more.

Location:

London, GB

Product Design Lead for The New Yorker – a senior individual contributor focused on elevating the digital experience through design, research, and system ownership.

• Elevating visual quality: Own the visual standard of the New Yorker's digital experience, ensuring every layout, interaction, and detail feels deliberate, considered, and unmistakably right for the brand.
• Interrogating the brief, not just answering it: Ask “why this?” before “how,” connect feature work to the wider reader experience, identify gaps, push back when the framing isn’t right, and propose better solutions.
• Designing with and within systems: Champion design excellence in shared systems, balancing brand expression with scalability, and creating distinct moments that make the New Yorker feel itself online.
• Knowing your reader, deeply: Run lightweight research and usability testing, partner with UX Research and Analytics, and use data to inform every design decision.
• Closing the gap between design and delivery: Work closely with engineering at implementation, stay involved in pull requests, and use Figma and Git Hub for genuine collaboration.
• Using AI as part of your practice: Employ AI tools for rapid prototyping, generative exploration, and bridging concept and execution while defining best practices.
• Owning outcomes, not just outputs: Treat work as products, track performance with analytics and qualitative feedback, and maintain accountability for the quality that ships.
• Partnering across disciplines: Build trusted relationships across design, editorial, product, and engineering, translating ambition into actionable improvements that get built.
• Championing design culture: Model craft, curiosity, and clarity, mentor through example, and raise the collective bar within the wider organization.

• You have a genuine love for editorial design and storytelling.
• 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 interrogate briefs, question assumptions, and bring a point of view rather than just executing what’s asked.
• You are technically fluent: comfortable in Figma, Cursor/Claude, Git Hub, design tokens, front‑end constraints, and engaging engineers at the implementation level.
• You have already leveraged AI tools in your work and maintain curiosity about future developments.
• You are outcome‑oriented, caring about how work performs and not just its appearance.
• You are a strong communicator: direct, open, and comfortable with giving and receiving feedback.
• You are a self‑starter who can move confidently even when the path is not fully defined.
• Experience:
  
  5+ years in product or editorial design roles.

• In your first six months, make a measurable improvement to the quality of The New Yorker's digital experience, documented by tangible metrics.
• Build cross‑functional trust with product, engineering, and editorial teams.
• Present a clear vision for the next phase of the New Yorker's product experience and begin embedding new ways of working, including AI‑assisted methods.
• By the end of the first year, achieve visible improvements in quality, engagement, and reader loyalty.

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and extra days if you move house or volunteer.
• Competitive pension scheme, Bupa Private Healthcare, Season ticket loans, and eye tests.
• Wellbeing support: core hours, 10 remote days, Employee Assistance Programme, corporate gym membership, and cycle‑to‑work scheme.
• Dog‑friendly office, magazine subscriptions, and discounts on our portfolio of magazines.
• Professional growth via the Condé Nast Learning Hub and Employee Resource Groups.

CondéNast 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.