Product Designer

Condé Nast stands as a distinguished media powerhouse, celebrated for curating top-tier content for the globe's most impactful audiences. Engaging over a billion consumers through its cutting-edge print, digital, and video brands, the portfolio proudly features some of the most iconic titles in the media landscape - from Architectural Digest and Bon Appétit to Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and WIRED. Consistently delivering excellence, Condé Nast extends its influence across 32 markets worldwide, with headquarters in both London and New York, embodying a commitment to quality and innovation. About Condé Nast Technology At Condé Nast Technology, our mission is to fuel the success of our brands in both business and creativity by crafting the next generation of content publishing, loyalty, and commerce experiences. We are a collective of product managers, designers, engineers, strategists, and researchers united in our dedication to building innovative, user-centric products. As a part of our dynamic team, you will collaborate with international colleagues spanning the globe, engaging with stakeholders in our US and UK headquarters, as well as across our 10 other markets. Our commitment to cross-functional collaboration is paramount; you will work closely with our functional pillars in CNT, covering Product, Engineering, Architecture, Design, UX, and Data. Additionally, you will collaborate with our business partners in Consumer Marketing, Commercial, Licensing, Editorial, and Brand, embodying our emphasis on seamless teamwork and holistic innovation. About Our Design 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. At the core of our philosophy is the understanding that a well-formed design culture transcends individual projects; it is a foundation upon which we build a legacy of innovation and user-centric solutions. Through collaboration, creativity, and a commitment to continuous improvement, our design team is dedicated to shaping the future of digital experiences, one thoughtful design at a time. About 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. Responsibilities include: 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. The ideal candidate has: 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 What we’d like to see: 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