Product Design Lead, Puzzles & Games

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You understand how every tap, transition, and animation contributes to the emotional texture of play, and you hold the bar high on all of it.****Designing a connected ecosystem.**** You think beyond individual games to the wider experience: onboarding, streaks, rewards, social moments, and the journeys that turn a casual player into a loyal one. You connect the dots across the portfolio, ensuring that touchpoints build on one another rather than existing in isolation.* You have a genuine love for puzzles and games – you understand what makes them compelling, habitual, and worth coming back to* You care deeply about the role design plays in building loyalty and emotional connection, not just usability* You're an expert in interaction, motion, and feedback – you have strong instincts for the details that make play feel satisfying* You move easily between the individual moment and the wider ecosystem, understanding how they connect* You're someone who interrogates briefs, questions assumptions, and brings a point of view – not just someone who executes what's asked* You're technically fluent: comfortable in Figma, Cursor / Claude and GitHub, familiar with design tokens and front-end constraints, and able to engage engineers at the implementation level* You've already changed how you work because of AI tools, and you're curious about what changes next* You're outcome-oriented – you care about engagement, retention, and habit formation, not just how the work looks in a review* You're a strong communicator: direct, open, and as comfortable receiving feedback as giving it* You're a self-starter who doesn't need the path fully defined to move with confidence* Interaction and motion craft – examples of how you design for gameplay, feedback states, transitions, and micro-interactions that create delight and satisfaction* Ecosystem thinking – how you've connected multiple features and moments to drive outcomes; how user touchpoints build on one another to create a wider experience* Brand sensitivity – how you interpret and express a brand's identity and voice across interactive experiences and touchpoints* Editorial and games experience – direct puzzles and games experience is preferred but not required; we're looking for someone who can create genuinely delightful interactive moments for our brands* Implementation quality – evidence that your design intent carried through to production; how you've worked with engineers or used tools (Figma, configs, tokens) to protect fidelity* Visual judgement – confident hierarchy, rhythm, motion, and composition, with a clear point of view on what "great" looks like* Curiosity and progression – signs that you stay current, experiment with new tools and technologies (including AI), and push your craft forward* Experience – 5+ years in product or interaction design roles. 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 offer a range of tools to support your wellbeing, including core hours, 10 remote days (from home or a country with a Condé Nast office location), access to our Employee Assistance Programme, corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme.Condé Nast is a global media company home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, AD, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New Yorker, Glamour, Allure, Bon Appétit, Self and many more. Headquartered in New York and London, the company produces award-winning journalism, content and entertainment for every platform today and operates in 32 markets worldwide including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the U.K. and U.S., and Taiwan.At Condé Nast we value diversity of background, views and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, their skills and contributions. And we recognize the power our brands have to influence and shape culture, catalyze action and help make our world a better place for all.For more information, please visit condenast.com and follow @CondeNast and @CondeNastCareer for Twitter and @condenastcareers for Instagram.#J-18808-Ljbffr”, “datePosted”: “2026-04-19”, “hiringOrganization”: { “@type”: “Organization”, “name”: “Conde Nast”, “sameAs”: “https://uk.whatjobs.com/pub_api__cpl__408600551__4861?utm_campaign=publisher&utm_medium=api&utm_source=4861&geoID=33” }, “jobLocation”: { “@type”: “Place”, “address”: { “@type”: “PostalAddress”, “addressLocality”: “London” } } }