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Conde Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, CN Traveller, Vanity Fair, Wired, The World of Interiors, House & Garden and Tatler, among many others.

We are headquartered in New York and London and operate in 32 markets worldwide, with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers across print, digital, video and social platforms.

Conde 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.

The Role

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

You'll own the product lifecycle from strategy to execution - working closely with highly technical engineering teams, design-led stakeholders, and third-party partners (e.g., Shopify, Substack, Meta, Ethyca, and other backend tools).

What is VETTE?

VETTE is a two-sided marketplace connecting brands to creator talent and their audiences at scale and provides creators intuitive tools to build their own online specialty stores.

What will you be doing?

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and execute product roadmap across marketplace, platform, and internal tooling

• Translate the company strategy into clear product priorities and releases

• Balance user experience, technical constraints, and business goals

• Own product documentation, specs, 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 vs. 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 (like Ethyca)

• Experience with growth experimentation or monetisation systems

• Prior startup or early-stage company experience

Does this sound like you?

Please submit your CV and cover letter/portfolio, which highlights why you'd love to take on this role and why you're a great match for what we're looking for.

We value the time and effort behind every application. All submissions are reviewed by a member of our talent team - we don't use AI-assisted technology to review applications.

What benefits do we offer?

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and extra days of annual leave if you move house or want to volunteer.

• You'll have access to a competitive pension scheme, Bupa Private Healthcare, Season ticket loans and eye tests.

• We offer a range of tools to support your wellbeing, including core hours, 10 remote days (from home or a country with a Conde Nast office location), access to our Employee Assistance Programme, corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme.

• We're a dog-friendly office, plus you'll enjoy discounts and magazine subscriptions, keeping you up to date with all things Conde Nast.

• We encourage personal and professional growth through the Conde Nast Learning Hub, where you'll find an extensive portfolio of learning courses and training available in local languages.

• Our Employee Resource Groups provide a platform for employees to identify shared objectives, exchange ideas, and work on community priorities for our global workforce.

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.

Conde 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.