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About the Role

We are seeking an engineering leader to oversee the delivery of best-in-class customer experiences, product roadmap, scale, and stability across all brands. You will lead engineers responsible for building and evolving our web application framework and consumer-facing surfaces, ensuring the team's output is timely, reliable, and high-quality. This is a hands-on technical role focused on delivery, guiding the team in architecture, technologies, and people management, setting technical direction in partnership with the principal front-end architect, and ensuring the team adheres to it.

Responsibilities

Lead, grow, and develop the Web applications team across multiple locations, ensuring delivery, quality, and reliability.
Own the execution of the team’s roadmap, translating business and product goals into a sequenced plan and delivering against it.
Establish and maintain clear quality benchmarks while sustaining momentum.
Act as a hands-on leader, capable of making sound decisions, unblocking the team, reviewing code, and validating technical choices.
Set technical direction in partnership with principal/senior principal engineers and ensure team accountability to agreed architecture, standards, and performance budgets.
Balance long-term architecture and scalability with short-term deliverables, making trade-off decisions transparently.
Guide the team through the evolution of the web application stack without compromising delivery pace or reader-experience quality.
Build strong, trusted relationships with product, design, and editorial partners, translating reader-experience goals into engineering plans and vice versa.
Align expectations and provide clear status updates on delivery.
Partner with wider organizational teams (data, revenue, enterprise technology, design) as needed for reader experience.
Lead a distributed, tenured team with maturity and earn credibility with experienced individual contributors.
Implement AI-native ways of working as a default within the team.
Raise the standard of AI-assisted engineering, sharing best practices and candidly assessing limitations to ensure speed without sacrificing quality or trust.

Requirements

Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams that build consumer-facing web applications at scale, with accountability for delivery and quality.
Track record of leading distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones.
Strong hands-on technical credibility in modern front-end / web platform engineering, capable of setting direction with senior architects and earning respect from senior ICs.
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, with the ability to lead through influence and authority.
Background in media, publishing, or other content-delivery platforms operating at high traffic and high editorial expectation (Nice to Have).
Experience leading a team through a platform rebuild, re-platform, or significant technical transformation (Nice to Have).
Experience leading teams through organizational change while maintaining delivery and morale (Nice to Have).

Skills

JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Astro
Node.js
GraphQL
REST
CDN/Edge
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Git
GitHub
Infrastructure as code
Quality Assurance
Pairing
AI-native development
Customer-obsessed approach

Location

New York, NY

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Leadership experience
Senior level

Salary/Compensations

$210,000-240,000

About the Company

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 undergoing a major transformation of teams and systems, organizing for speed, ownership, and customer focus with smaller, independent teams, and adopting AI-native ways of working.
Engineering is responsible for building, deploying, and scaling experiences that serve our global audiences across brands, with a consumer-facing surface that is evolving to meet audience 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.