Product Design Lead, Vogue

About the role

Vogue is one of the most influential brands in fashion and culture. Bringing that authority to life online - across inspiration, service, and shopping - at the level of taste, craft, and precision the brand demands, is one of the most exciting design challenges in digital today. We're looking for a Product Design Lead who sits at the intersection of system and story: someone who can take what we've built and make it measurably better, through focus, craft, and an instinct for what "great" actually looks like. This is a senior IC role. You'll work with real autonomy, move at pace, and make a tangible difference to the experience of millions of readers. But this isn't just an execution role. We're in a period of deliberate transformation - in how we build, how we design, and how we use new tools and technology to raise our bar. We need someone who is part of how we move forward: a change agent who brings conviction, curiosity, and craft in equal measure. What you'll be doing. Elevating visual quality You own the visual standard of Vogue's digital experience - ensuring every layout, interaction, and detail feels deliberate, considered, and unmistakably right for the brand. You bring a sophisticated eye for typography, hierarchy, rhythm, and composition, and you know the difference between work that functions well and work that genuinely feels great. Interrogating the brief, not just answering it You ask "why this?" before "how." You connect feature work to the wider reader experience, identify gaps that others miss, elevate the ambition of the work beyond the initial ask and identify opportunities to better integrate revenue-generating experiences without compromising brand integrity. You're comfortable pushing back on a brief when the framing isn't right, and proposing a better one. Designing with and within systems You champion design excellence within the parameters of a shared system, while knowing exactly where to push beyond it. You balance brand expression with scalability - ensuring component use remains consistent and purposeful, while creating the moments of distinctiveness that make Vogue feel like itself online. Knowing your reader, deeply You dig into data and research to understand what Vogue readers actually do, need, and feel - not just what they say. You run your own lightweight research and usability testing to pressure-test ideas and prototypes, and you partner closely with our UX Research and Analytics specialists to go deeper where it matters. You bring this understanding into every design decision, and you're as comfortable in a research debrief as you are in a design review. Closing the gap between design and delivery You work closely with engineering at the implementation layer, not just handing off, but staying close to ensure design intent carries through to production. You're fluent in design tokens, comfortable reading a pull request, and use Figma and GitHub as tools of genuine collaboration, not just artifact management. Using AI as part of your practice You use AI tools as a working part of how you design, for rapid prototyping, generative exploration, and closing the gap between concept and execution. You're not waiting to see what best practice looks like; you're helping to define it. Owning outcomes, not just outputs You treat the experiences you design as products, not deliverables. You track how your work performs, using reader data, analytics, and qualitative feedback to identify what to improve next. You operate with a strong sense of accountability for the quality of what ships. Partnering across disciplines You build trusted relationships across design, editorial, product, engineering, commercial and partnerships teams. You speak the language of Creative Directors and engineers with equal fluency, and you translate editorial and creative ambition as well as business opportunities, into actionable design improvements that actually get built. Championing design culture You model craft, curiosity, and clarity through your work. You set the standard for what "good" looks like, mentor through example, and help raise the collective bar - not just within your team, b

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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 Location: London, GB 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.

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