Design Lead

Location: Greater 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, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.#

** Job Description
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* Location:

London, GBCondé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including , , , , , , ,  and , among many others. We are headquartered in New York and London and operate in 32 markets worldwide, with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers across print, digital, video and social platforms.

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.
** 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 dedicated to creating innovative, user-centric products that enable world-class storytelling and digital experiences.

You’ll be part of a talented international team working across London, New York, and ten other markets, collaborating daily with colleagues in Product, Engineering, Architecture, Design, UX, and Data. We partner closely with Consumer Marketing, Commercial, Licensing, Editorial, and Brand teams to ensure our tools and experiences deliver real impact.

Together, we’re shaping how our brands create, publish, and connect with audiences worldwide, combining craft, technology, and collaboration to deliver quality at scale.
** About Our Design Team
** Our team is experienced in visual design, ux design, interaction design, and design research. We partner closely with editorial, product management, engineering, and business partners to strategise, design, and launch ambitious digital products. We believe that a well-formed design culture is essential to delivering top-notch work.
** The Role
** Our brands are our USP. The expression of our iconic brands – from Vogue to the New Yorker – within their digital experiences is of utmost importance in our mission to create the best places to consume and interact with our brands.
We are looking for a Product Design Lead to help us bring to life our brands’ unique personalities across our websites, toeing the line between consistency and distinction. You’ll work across multiple brands, using new or existing capabilities in our design system to improve the storytelling, finesse, and distinctiveness of our digital experiences.

This role sits at the intersection of system and story, taking what we’ve built and making it better through focus, craft, and attention to detail. You’ll move fast, get hands-on, and make tangible improvements across our front-end s isn’t a management role; it’s a senior IC position for someone who can design, finesse, and implement independently while building trusted partnerships across editorial, design, product, and engineering.

Elevating visual quality

You focus on the visual standard of our sites, ensuring every interaction, layout, and detail feels deliberate, cohesive, and premium - driving improvements in typography, rhythm, and composition to create experiences that are refined and unmistakably Condé Nast.

Partnering across teams  You build trusted partnerships across design, editorial, product, and engineering to align brand ambition with platform capability. You translate editorial and creative goals into actionable design improvements that strengthen both storytelling and usability.

Crafting with systems thinking  You champion design excellence within the parameters of a shared system. You balance brand expression with scalability…