Product Design Lead, Vogue

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.

Location:

London, GB

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.

Vogue is one of the most influential brands in fashion and culture. Bringing that authority to life online - across inspiration, service, and shopping - at the level of taste, craft, and precision the brand demands, is one of the most exciting design challenges in digital today.

We’re looking for a Product Design Lead who sits at the intersection of system and story: someone who can take what we’ve built and make it measurably better, through focus, craft, and an instinct for what “great” actually looks like. This is a senior IC role. You’ll work with real autonomy, move at pace, and make a tangible difference to the experience of millions of readers.

But this isn’t just an execution role. We’re in a period of deliberate transformation - in how we build, how we design, and how we use new tools and technology to raise our bar. We need someone who is part of how we move forward: a change agent who brings conviction, curiosity, and craft in equal measure.

You own the visual standard of Vogue’s digital experience - ensuring every layout, interaction, and detail feels deliberate, considered, and unmistakably right for the brand. You bring a sophisticated eye for typography, hierarchy, rhythm, and composition, and you know the difference between work that functions well and work that genuinely feels great.

You ask “why this?” before “how.” You connect feature work to the wider reader experience, identify gaps that others miss, elevate the ambition of the work beyond the initial ask and identify opportunities to better integrate revenue-generating experiences without compromising brand integrity. You’re comfortable pushing back on a brief when the framing isn’t right, and proposing a better one.

You champion design excellence within the parameters of a shared system, while knowing exactly where to push beyond it. You balance brand expression with scalability — ensuring component use remains consistent and purposeful, while creating the moments of distinctiveness that make Vogue feel like itself online.

You dig into data and research to understand what Vogue readers actually do, need, and feel — not just what they say. You run your own lightweight research and usability testing to pressure-test ideas and prototypes, and you partner closely with our UX Research and Analytics specialists to go deeper where it matters. You bring this understanding into every design decision, and you’re as comfortable in a research debrief as you are in a design review.

You work closely with engineering at the implementation layer, not just handing off, but staying close to ensure design intent carries through to production. You’re fluent in design tokens, comfortable reading a pull request, and use Figma and Git Hub as tools of genuine…