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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.Job Description\nLocation:\nNew York, NYDirector of Engineering, Publishing Platform\nCondé 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.\nWe 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.\nAbout the Role\nThe Publishing Platform engineering team builds and operates the systems our editors and brand teams rely on every day: our content management system, rights management, editorial planning, and the content APIs that serve our brand experiences globally across more than 70 sites. It is a genuinely multi-tenant platform and its customers are internal: editors, producers, brand product teams, and the engineering teams that build on top of it.\nThis is a technical role focused on delivery, guiding the team on architecture, technologies and people management. You set technical direction in close partnership with our principal engineers and you are accountable for making sure the team builds to that direction and ships to it. You lead a globally distributed team from New York, working cross functionally with product, design and editorial partners who sit closest to our brands, and you own the health of those partnerships as much as the code.\nResponsibilities\nTeam Leadership & Delivery\nManage and grow a global group of engineering teams across CMS, rights, planning, and content API systems, led by engineering managers and tech leads reporting to you.\n\nRecruit, mentor, and develop engineers and managers; raise the technical and delivery bar across the group.\n\nEnsure operational excellence or systems that sit on the critical path of every brand, every day. Ownership of uptime, performance, and reliability.\n\nTechnical Direction\nOwn the publishing platform roadmap in partnership with platform product management, balancing brand demand, editorial needs, structural investment, and technical debt.\n\nPartner with principal engineering on key architectural decisions ahead: content model and format strategy, API contracts, and the consolidation of our authoring toolchain.\n\nTreat the platform as a product: define and improve the contribution surface that lets brand teams ship on the platform quickly and safely, with governance built into the rails rather than enforced by review.\n\nCross-Functional Partnership\nBuild strong, trusted working relationships with editorial, product, and brand engineering partners by translating their goals into platform plans and platform realities into terms they can act on.\n\nSet clear expectations and communicate on delivery with a focus on ensuring the team fulfills commitments.\n\nPartner across the wider organization (consumer experience, data, revenue, and enterprise technology) wherever the content pipeline touches their systems.\n\nAI-Native Delivery\nDrive the evolution of authoring and editorial workflows for an AI-assisted world - from AI-supported content creation to agentic workflows in production tooling.\n\nMake AI-native ways of working real inside your team as a default, not an experiment.\n\nRaise the standard of AI-assisted engineering across the team, sharing effective practice and assessing its limits candidly, so speed comes without sacrificing quality or trust.\n\nRequirements\nProven experience leading and growing engineering teams building and running platforms as products, with real accountability for delivery and quality.\n\nExperience owning content management, publishing, or comparable internal-platform systems.\n\nA track record of leading distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones.\n\nSufficient hands-on depth to review designs and code, engage credibly with senior ICs, and contribute directly when it matters.\n\nStrong architectural judgment in content systems: content modeling, structured content vs. markup tradeoffs, API design (GraphQL/REST), and the seams between authoring, storage, and delivery.\n\nDemonstrated ability to build strong, trusted relationships with product, design and other cross-functional partners.\n\nExperience driving AI-native ways of working within a team, not just tolerating them.\n\nSound judgment on the trade-off between platform health and delivery speed.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication, and the maturity to lead through influence as much as authority.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience in media, publishing, or another editorial-tooling-intensive domain.\n\nFamiliarity with rights management, editorial planning, or media asset workflows.\n\nExperience leading platform consolidation or re-architecture while the platform remains in continuous production use.\n\nOur Tech Stack\nLanguages & Frameworks: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, REST, MongoDB, AWS Lambda, Kafka, S3\n\nDelivery & Infra: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform\n\nSource Control: Git, GitHub\n\nHow We Work\nInfrastructure as code everywhere.\n\nQuality Assurance is the team’s responsibility.\n\nPairing and other techniques to facilitate knowledge sharing and upskilling.\n\nWorks with peers and stakeholders across time zones and locations, with international colleagues across the US, Europe, and India.\n\nTeams own their apps, including on-call.\n\nAI-native by default and customer-obsessed in intent, with a bias toward placing real work in front of readers and allowing data to guide the next decision.\n\nThe expected base salary range for this position is from $210,000-240,000. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to relevant skills, training, experience, and education.\nWhat happens next?\nIf 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.\nCondé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. 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