SVP, Content Performance & Growth

Condé Nast Germany•New York, NY

3d•$300,000 - $325,000

About The Position

Condé Nast is seeking a Senior Vice President, Content Performance & Growth to shape audience growth and maximize the value of content across its brands, platforms, and markets. The role connects Editorial, Product, Consumer Marketing, Advertising, Commerce, and other functions, championing audience priorities and aligning teams with global and U.S. strategy and KPIs. It calls for a strategic, hands-on leader with a deep understanding of audiences and editorial categories who can turn data and insights into actionable strategies that grow audiences, deepen engagement, and strengthen the organization’s long-term impact. The position oversees a global team responsible for unified content planning, cross-market content sharing and adaptation, audience and analytics enablement, operational best practices, and integrating emerging technology and AI into content workflows to support brand growth and monetization. The role is based in New York, NY, and reports to the Chief Content Operations Officer.

Requirements

Significant leadership experience in content, audience development, digital media, publishing, entertainment, or a related field.
Strong understanding of how content, audiences, platforms, product, and revenue work together to drive business growth.
Strong understanding of the media industry landscape.
Track record of using data and insights to improve content performance and audience growth.
Proactive storytelling skills, especially with very senior stakeholders.
Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders.
Strong understanding of digital distribution, including owned-and-operated platforms, search, social, newsletters, video, and off-platform audiences.
Experience with experimentation, optimization, and scaling successful ideas across brands or markets.
Global perspective and appreciation for balancing scale with local relevance.
Excellent communication and executive presence, including the ability to make complex ideas simple and actionable.
Exceptional communication, presentation, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively across markets and cultures.
Experience developing senior talent and building high-performing, collaborative, globally connected teams.

Responsibilities

Develop strategies and best practices to grow target audiences across owned-and-operated platforms, SEO/GEO, newsletters, video, social, and other platforms.
Partner with Advertising, Consumer, Commerce, Finance, Product, and Content leaders to connect audience and content decisions with broader business goals.
Translate audience data and insights across brands, platforms, and markets into strategies, priorities, and KPIs.
Identify creative and distribution practices that improve content reach and engagement, with particular focus on video and emerging opportunities.
Find opportunities to share, adapt, and distribute content globally while keeping it relevant to local audiences.
Bring audience and business perspectives to strategic decisions and cross-functional initiatives, including decisions about paywalls, distribution, and content investment.
Build a culture of experimentation by testing ideas and scaling approaches that demonstrate meaningful impact.
Make performance insights accessible, actionable, and relevant to organizational leaders, including for legal claims and compliance needs.
Align stakeholders with different priorities around shared goals, metrics, and ways of working.
Lead global Audience Strategy and Planning & Practices teams, overseeing Audience Strategy & Analytics, SEO, Creative Optimization, Newsletter & Email Operations, Central Content Planning, Content Sharing, and Translation & Adaptation.