Director, Product Management - VETTE

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video and social platforms. The company’s portfolio includes many of the world’s most respected and influential media properties including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.

Job Description

Location:

London, GB Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, CN Traveller, Vanity Fair, Wired, The World of Interiors, House & Garden and Tatler, among many others. We are headquartered in New York and London and operate in 32 markets worldwide, with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers across print, digital, video and social platforms.

Condé Nast thrives on collaboration, and our teams come together in the office four days a week (Monday - Thursday).We value diversity of background, views and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, skills and contributions, recognising the power our brands have to influence and shape culture.

The Role VETTE is seeking a Product Manager to lead our platform development across marketplace functionality, e-commerce infrastructure, and strategic technology partnerships. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, design, and external integrations, ensuring our tech stack, partner ecosystem, and product roadmap scale cohesively.

You’ll own the product lifecycle from strategy to execution - working closely with highly technical engineering teams, design-led stakeholders, and third-party partners (e.g., Shopify, Substack, Meta, Ethyca, and other backend tools).What is VETTE?

VETTE is a two-sided marketplace connecting brands to creator talent and their audiencesat scale and provides creators intuitive tools to build their own online specialty stores. What will you be doing? Product Strategy & Roadmap Define and execute product roadmap across marketplace, platform, and internal tooling

Translate the company strategy into clear product priorities and releases

Balance user experience, technical constraints, and business goals

Own product documentation, specs, and success metrics

Technology & Platform Ownership Oversee platform architecture decisions with engineering leadership

Manage the evolving VETTE tech stack and tooling ecosystem

Ensure scalability, performance, and integration reliability

Lead build vs. buy decisions across backend tools and infrastructure

Partnership Integrations Own relationships with key platform partners (Shopify, Meta, Substack, Ethyca, etc.)Scope, prioritise, and launch new integrations

Work with engineering to ensure clean API implementations

Identify strategic partners that unlock new marketplace capabilities

Cross-Functional Execution Partner closely with design to ensure a design-led product approach

Lead sprint planning, prioritisation, and delivery coordination

Act as the primary bridge between business, engineering, and design teams

Maintain visibility into timelines, blockers, and dependencies

Marketplace & E-commerce Optimisation Improve onboarding, merchant tools, transaction flows, and analytics

Optimise conversion, retention, and platform usability

Support monetisation features and new marketplace mechanics

About you:

Strong experience in product management (or equivalent startup experience)
Experience building marketplace, platform, or e-commerce products

Strong technical fluency working with APIs, integrations, and backend systems

Proven ability managing engineering and design teams simultaneously

Experience launching third-party integrations or platform partnerships

Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments

Strong Plus Factors

Experience with Shopify ecosystem or headless commerce

Background in creator platforms, media tech, or consumer marketplaces

Familiarity with privacy/compliance tooling (like Ethyca)

Experience with growth experimentation or monetisation systems

Prior startup or early-stage company experience

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