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About the Role

The Publishing Platform engineering team builds and operates essential systems for editors and brand teams, including our content management system, rights management, editorial planning, and content APIs. This technical role focuses on delivery, guiding the team on architecture, technologies, and people management. You will set technical direction in partnership with principal engineers and ensure the team builds and ships accordingly. You will lead a globally distributed team from New York, collaborating cross-functionally with product, design, and editorial partners, and owning the health of these partnerships.

Responsibilities

Manage and grow a global group of engineering teams across CMS, rights, planning, and content API systems.
Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers and managers, raising the technical and delivery bar.
Ensure operational excellence for systems critical to daily brand operations, owning uptime, performance, and reliability.
Own the publishing platform roadmap in partnership with platform product management, balancing brand demand, editorial needs, structural investment, and technical debt.
Partner with principal engineering on key architectural decisions, including content model and format strategy, API contracts, and authoring toolchain consolidation.
Define and improve the platform's contribution surface to enable brand teams to ship quickly and safely.
Build strong, trusted working relationships with editorial, product, and brand engineering partners.
Set clear expectations and communicate on delivery, ensuring the team fulfills commitments.
Partner across the wider organization wherever the content pipeline touches other systems.
Drive the evolution of authoring and editorial workflows for an AI-assisted world.
Implement AI-native ways of working within your team as a default.
Raise the standard of AI-assisted engineering across the team.

Requirements

Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams that build and run platforms as products, with accountability for delivery and quality.
Experience owning content management, publishing, or comparable internal-platform systems.
A track record of leading distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones.
Sufficient hands-on depth to review designs and code, engage credibly with senior ICs, and contribute directly when needed.
Strong architectural judgment in content systems, including content modeling, structured content vs. markup tradeoffs, API design (GraphQL/REST), and the seams between authoring, storage, and delivery.
Demonstrated ability to build strong, trusted relationships with product, design, and other cross-functional partners.
Experience driving AI-native ways of working within a team.
Sound judgment on the trade-off between platform health and delivery speed.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the maturity to lead through influence.

Skills

JavaScript
TypeScript
Node.js
GraphQL
REST
MongoDB
AWS Lambda
Kafka
S3
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Git
GitHub

Location

New York, NY

Work Type

Global
Distributed

Experience Level

Director

Salary/Compensations

$210,000-240,000

About the Company

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.
Condé Nast is a global media company producing the world's most iconic lifestyle, journalism, and fashion brands.
We aim to inspire, inform and entertain our audiences through our portfolio of well known brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, GQ and many other leading brands.
We are on a journey with the major transformation of teams and systems: organizing for speed, ownership and customer focus with smaller, independent teams, and being AI native in how we work.
Engineering is responsible for building, deploying and scaling the experiences that serve our audiences globally across brands, and the consumer-facing surface of that is evolving to meet our audience’s needs.

Equal Opportunity

Condé Nast 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.