Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. Our award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month.
We are headquartered in London and New York, and operate in 31 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S., with local licence partners across the globe.
The Role
Join us at the heart of innovation as a Product Designer within the dynamic Digital publishing team at Condé Nast. Powering an extensive network of over 65 websites, engaging 5,000 editors, and captivating hundreds of millions of monthly visitors, our tools and capabilities are the engine behind substantial digital revenue and brand experience. Our multifaceted teams are the architects of this success, crafting innovative software and technologies that drive excellence across our ecosystem.
As a Product Designer, you will play a key role in shaping the user experience, visual design, and tool evolution for the Digital Publishing team. This involves working across a spectrum of critical components, including a robust multi-brand design system, an internal tool design system, a cutting-edge web framework, CMS solutions, publishing tools, user accounts, and advanced ads and commerce products. Your expertise will be instrumental in advancing our tools to new levels of innovation, with a focus on enhancing self-service capabilities, fostering user autonomy, and implementing intelligent publishing solutions.
This presents a compelling opportunity for you to join at a pivotal moment, where your design skills will significantly contribute to key initiatives. The Digital Publishing team not only upholds operational excellence but also acts as the gateway for Condé Nast's renowned brands to engage directly with their audiences. Through our sites and tools, you'll be at the forefront of ensuring the success of Condé Nast's world-leading brands, connecting them directly with audiences passionate about the topics they cover. Your role will involve creating new engagement and community experiences, further solidifying our standing as industry leaders.
The Team
Within CNT, our team comprises seasoned designers with a wealth of expertise in crafting exceptional customer experiences through product design, brand identity, visual design, UX content design, and research. We firmly believe that cultivating a robust design culture is not just a priority but a necessity for the delivery of outstanding products.
In our pursuit of excellence, we recognize that each facet of design plays a pivotal role in shaping user interactions and perceptions. Our designers bring a wealth of experience and a diverse skill set to the table, seamlessly integrating customer insights, aesthetics, and functionality. By embracing a holistic approach to design, we ensure that every product we create not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our users.
What will you be doing?
Simplify ambiguous problems through strategic thinking and teamwork, ensuring clear understanding of goals and challenges.
Foster a collaborative environment
Contribute to the development and execution of innovative problem-solving processes, ensuring an effective approach to addressing challenges and creating successful solutions.
Feed into product strategy, ensuring alignment with distinct user and business needs through sound questioning and problem-solving.
Collaborate closely with the product manager, design lead, project leads, and tech leads to transform initial ideas into developed solutions,
Collaborate with UX researchers and UX content designers to gain deep insights into user behaviors and complex user journeys, informing the design process with user-centric perspectives.
Craft user flows, prototypes, and visually appealing designs for a range of experiences, supporting brand teams in creating captivating digital experiences, cover live events, publish compelling content, syndicate articles, track data, and much more.
Work closely with engineers in various locations to implement features designed by yourself, ensuring high-quality experiences.
Advocate for your ideas and solutions by presenting their impact and value
Use and contribute to our design system, Verso
Be open to constructive feedback to aid your professional growth.
Advocate for the value of user experience design, research, and writing.
Who you are?
A portfolio that shows clear UX solutions, sound visual design, and user centric workflows
Understanding of Content Management Systems, WYSIWYG tools, editorial design, multi-brand design systems, all driven by product and design principles
Highlight experience in applying ideas and solutions to complex tools and capabilities for business-facing software
Share experience in delivering large-scale web experiences with a focus on content publishing
Illustrate your experience in applying shared design patterns and systems to solve new and intricate user problems pragmatically, showcasing your ability to innovate
Demonstrate familiarity with hypothesis-driven design, coupled with both qualitative and quantitative testing
Showcase a data-driven mindset in your design approach
Highlight your approach to framing and solving challenging problems, emphasizing a keen understanding of a range of design and research tools and methods
Experience with current web technology capabilities and limitations
Emphasize your confidence and enthusiasm as a collaborator and communicator, showcasing your ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams
Experience with, or a desire to learn how to work within a globally distributed team
Experience with creating and evolving user experiences that can be re-used within a globalised company.
Examples of experience optimisation, evolution and improvement backed up with clear KPI’s and ROI
Knowledge of a range of UI patterns and the reasons for applying one vs another
How you’ve considered thoughtful UI and micro-interactions
Your process for problem-solving (rather than just polished, final design work)
Varying types of design artifacts, and your sensibility of which design exercises meet a particular purpose
Coding ability is not a requirement, but welcome and encouraged comfort dealing with low-level system capabilities and the ability to participate in technical discussions are invaluable for this role
Where will you be?
We value collaboration, and our team comes together in the office three days a week. Our Adelphi office spans three floors, offering amazing views of the Thames and easy access to the amenities of The Strand. We truly love working here!
What benefits do we offer?
25 days holiday and extra days of annual leave for life events
Hybrid working and core hours
Competitive pension scheme
Bupa Private Healthcare
Enhanced maternity leave and family leave
Season ticket loans
Cycle to work scheme
Employee Assistance programme
Bring your dog to work
A wide variety of wellness benefits including gym discounts
Discounts and Magazine Subscriptions
Employee Resource Groups to provide a platform for employees to identify shared objectives, exchange ideas, and work on community priorities for our global workforce
Condé Nast Learning Hub where you’ll find you’ll find all Condé Nast-developed learning courses and trainings, and over 16,000+ courses in seven local languages
What happens next?
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.
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.