Director, Product Management - VETTE

Posted 10 days 2 hours ago by Conde Nast

Permanent
Full Time
Other
London, City Of Westminster, United Kingdom, NW1 4
Job Description

Condé Nast is a global media company known for iconic brands such as Vogue, GQ and The New Yorker, operating in 32 markets worldwide. The job is located in London, GB.

The Role

VETTE is seeking a Product Manager to lead platform development across marketplace functionality, e-commerce infrastructure, and strategic technology partnerships. The role sits at the intersection of engineering, design, and external integrations, ensuring the tech stack, partner ecosystem, and product roadmap scale cohesively.

What will you be doing? Product Strategy & Roadmap
  • Define and execute product roadmap across marketplace, platform, and internal tooling.
  • Translate company strategy into clear product priorities and releases.
  • Balance user experience, technical constraints, and business goals.
  • Own product documentation, specifications, and success metrics.
Technology & Platform Ownership
  • Oversee platform architecture decisions with engineering leadership.
  • Manage the evolving VETTE tech stack and tooling ecosystem.
  • Ensure scalability, performance, and integration reliability.
  • Lead build versus buy decisions across backend tools and infrastructure.
Partnership Integrations
  • Own relationships with key platform partners (Shopify, Meta, Substack, Ethyca, etc.).
  • Scope, prioritise, and launch new integrations.
  • Work with engineering to ensure clean API implementations.
  • Identify strategic partners that unlock new marketplace capabilities.
Cross-Functional Execution
  • Partner closely with design to ensure a design led product approach.
  • Lead sprint planning, prioritisation, and delivery coordination.
  • Act as the primary bridge between business, engineering, and design teams.
  • Maintain visibility into timelines, blockers, and dependencies.
Marketplace & E-commerce Optimisation
  • Improve onboarding, merchant tools, transaction flows, and analytics.
  • Optimise conversion, retention, and platform usability.
  • Support monetisation features and new marketplace mechanics.
About you
  • Strong experience in product management or equivalent startup experience.
  • Experience building marketplace, platform, or e commerce products.
  • Strong technical fluency working with APIs, integrations, and backend systems.
  • Proven ability managing engineering and design teams simultaneously.
  • Experience launching third party integrations or platform partnerships.
  • Comfortable operating in fast moving startup environments.
Strong plus factors
  • Experience with Shopify ecosystem or headless commerce.
  • Background in creator platforms, media tech, or consumer marketplaces.
  • Familiarity with privacy/compliance tooling such as Ethyca.
  • Experience with growth experimentation or monetisation systems.
  • Prior startup or early stage company experience.
Benefits
  • 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with extra days for moving or volunteering.
  • Competitive pension scheme.
  • Bupa Private Healthcare.
  • Season ticket loans and eye tests.
  • Core hours, 10 remote days, Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme.
  • Dog friendly office, magazine subscriptions, and learning resources.

CondéNast 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, or other legally protected characteristics.