Product Design Lead, Vogue in London

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, 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.

The Opportunity

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.

What you'll be doing:

• Elevating visual quality: 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.
• Interrogating the brief, not just answering it: 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.
• Designing with and within systems: You champion design excellence within the parameters of a shared system, while knowing exactly where to push beyond it.
• Knowing your reader, deeply: You dig into data and research to understand what Vogue readers actually do, need, and feel — not just what they say.
• Closing the gap between design and delivery: You work closely with engineering at the implementation layer, not just handing off, but staying close to ensure design intent carries through to production.
• Using AI as part of your practice: You use AI tools as a working part of how you design, for rapid prototyping, generative exploration, and closing the gap between concept and execution.
• Owning outcomes, not just outputs: You treat the experiences you design as products, not deliverables.
• Partnering across disciplines: You build trusted relationships across design, editorial, product, engineering, commercial and partnerships teams.
• Championing design culture: You model craft, curiosity, and clarity through your work.

You’ll thrive in this role if…

• You have a genuine love for editorial design and storytelling.
• You move easily between system and brand thinking.
• You’re someone who interrogates briefs, questions assumptions, and brings a point of view.
• You’re technically fluent: comfortable in Figma, Cursor / Claude and GitHub.
• You’ve already changed how you work because of AI tools.
• You’re outcome-oriented — you care about how the work performs.
• You’re a strong communicator: direct, open, and as comfortable receiving feedback as giving it.
• You’re a self-starter who doesn't need the path fully defined to move with confidence.

What success looks like...

In your first six months, you'll have made a measurable improvement to the quality of Vogue’s digital experience. By the end of your first year, that improvement will be visible in the metrics that matter: quality, engagement, loyalty and conversion.

What we'd like to see:

• Your portfolio should show evidence that you can apply design craft, judgement, and systems thinking to real publishing experiences.
• Experience: 5+ years in product or editorial design roles.
• Brand sensitivity within systems.
• Motion and interaction design.
• System fluency.
• Implementation quality.
• Visual judgement.
• Curiosity and progression.

About Condé Nast Technology

Condé Nast Technology builds the products, systems, and experiences that power our brands. Our mission is to enable creativity and business growth through next-generation publishing, loyalty, and commerce platforms.

We're a global team of designers, engineers, product managers, and researchers, working across London, New York, and twelve other markets.

What benefits do we offer?

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and extra days of annual leave if you move house or want to volunteer.
• Access to a competitive pension scheme, Bupa Private Healthcare, Season ticket loans and eye tests.
• A range of tools to support your wellbeing.
• Dog-friendly office, plus discounts and magazine subscriptions.
• Encouragement of personal and professional growth through the Condé Nast Learning Hub.
• Employee Resource Groups provide a platform for employees to identify shared objectives.

What happens next?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer.