Principal Product Manager, Front End Platform

About the role

The role involves owning the strategy for Condé Nast's audience platform, ensuring it enables best-in-class experiences for every brand and piece of content, wherever it reaches an audience. The platform supports page performance, content rendering, ad delivery, SEO, design system components, accessibility, and developer velocity.

Responsibilities

• Understand the customer: both readers and internal teams building on the platform.
• Partner with engineering and design as peers, having real conversations about trade-offs and writing clear specs.
• Have a point of view on what great looks like, setting standards and tracking them obsessively.
• Measure what matters: defining clear metrics for platform health and building dashboards and rituals to keep the team honest.
• Stay comfortable in the mess, holding complex situations without being paralyzed by them.
• Think with AI, not just about it, bringing practical recommendations and prioritizing AI investment alongside other roadmaps.
• Stay curious, keeping up with emerging trends in tooling, frameworks, and AI-powered development.

Requirements

• 10+ years in product management, with meaningful time on platform or infrastructure products.
• Real understanding of front end technology, including rendering, performance optimization, SEO, component architecture, and design systems.
• Consumer product instincts, working on products where the end user is a real person.
• Familiarity with digital advertising, understanding its intersection with front end performance and UX.
• Comfort with ambiguity, operating in large organizations with unclear paths.
• Strong communication skills, writing and presenting well to editors-in-chief and staff engineers.
• Hands-on experience with design systems and familiarity with digital advertising.

Qualifications

• Experience at a media or publishing company is not required.
• Hands-on experience with design systems (Storybook, Figma component libraries, design tokens) is not required.
• Experience using AI tools regularly in product work and shaping product strategy around AI capabilities is not required.