Location:
London, GBCondé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. Our award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month.
We are headquartered in London and New York, and operate in 31 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S., with local licence partners across the globe.
The Role
Condé Nast is seeking an innovative, collaborative, and proven Sr. Product Manager to help guide product planning and execution for our affiliate commerce area.
As the Sr. Product Manager for Commerce, you will help develop and execute the roadmap to grow our affiliate commerce business across Condé Nast. Working in collaboration with design, engineering and project management partners, as well as the commerce editorial team, you will iterate on our brand’s on-site affiliate commerce page templates (e.g. shopping guides) and features to optimize revenue, seo, and user experience. You will partner closely with the commerce editorial teams to deliver features that add value for our end users and you will be responsible for editorial adoption of these features.
You will need to work closely with other Product Managers, Product Designers, and Engineers to build features that will support all of our brands across all of our markets.
What will you be doing?
Prioritization & Planning
Drive product prioritization within a 0-9 month time horizon, with the ability to manage prioritization across both short- and long-term projects, managing unforeseen situations logically and effectively
Co-lead cross-functional teams with partners in editorial, design, engineering, and project management to deliver features that meet the needs of our users
Prioritize multiple initiatives with logic and authority, while influencing your peers through respect
Work with product analytics to estimate the impact of potential work to help guide feature prioritization
Convert business objectives into development plans and follow through with delivery
Devise and refine Objectives and Key Results for affiliate commerce
Ensure clear requirements are provided for iterative development cycles
Align with engineering teams to determine resourcing plans
Manage day to day product planning & delivery (i.e. agile ceremonies) with a globally distributed product development team that has a heavy footprint in India
Communication
Align senior stakeholders across the company to the product roadmap
Proactively and clearly communicate updates, roadblocks, and other team developments to stakeholders
Write product briefs and gain team buy-in on new approaches to problems
Create and manage all product documentation, communicate strategy, project status, and decisions
Train users on how to use new features
Track adoption of features and hand-hold editors as needed to grow adoption
Drive ab tests and pre/post tests to validate hypotheses
Quickly respond to bugs and issues as they arise
Thrive in a global environment, working across multiple time zones
Build effective relationships with strong verbal and written abilities, working diplomatically and effectively across departments
Management
Be the primary point of contact for our on-site affiliate commerce page templates (e.g. shopping guides) across the Condé Nast organization, coordinating work with our cross-functional partners in editorial, audience development, marketing, consumer revenue, corporate development, advertising and strategy.
Constantly iterate on team processes and resources to improve quality and speed of delivery
Who you are:
5-8 years of experience driving commerce products, ideally affiliate commerce at a digital media organization
Experience in developing and delivering digital products at scale within a consumer-facing company (preferably media)
A clear understanding of the affiliate commerce industry, including trends and best practices on different platforms, including social commerce
Experience with commerce platforms like Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, CommerceTools
Experience with product catalogs (PIMs)
Experience with social commerce tools like LTK, ShopMy
Experience across digital platforms, particularly web-based tech
Confidence presenting to executives
A familiarity with and appreciation of Conde Nast brands
Experience working with analytics tools, and understanding and communicating data trends.
Bachelor or Masters degree
Familiarity with HTML, CSS, javascript, and SQL
Patience, a positive outlook, and a can-do attitude
What benefits do we offer?
25 days holiday and extra days of annual leave for life events
Core hours
Competitive pension scheme
Bupa Private Healthcare
Enhanced maternity leave and family leave
Season ticket loans
Cycle to work scheme
Employee Assistance programme
Bring your dog to work
A wide variety of wellness benefits including gym discounts
Discounts and Magazine Subscriptions
Employee Resource Groups to provide a platform for employees to identify shared objectives, exchange ideas, and work on community priorities for our global workforce
Condé Nast Learning Hub where you’ll find all Condé Nast-developed learning courses and training, and over 16,000+ courses in seven local languages
What happens next?If 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.
Condé Nast 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 and other legally protected characteristics.