Principal Product Manager, Front End Platform

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.

New York, NY

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,…