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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Commerce Director, AD - **Company:** Conde Nast Inc - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $155,000.0 - $170,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis - **Published:** May 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers/job/1-World-Trade-Center-New-York-NY/Senior-Commerce-Director--AD_R-23872 ## About the Role * 8-10 years in e-commerce, DTC, or commerce media, with deep understanding of the design and interiors category * 3-5 years leading and developing high-performing teams * Track record of building or scaling a recognized direct shopping destination, with proven success driving an e-commerce P&L * Demonstrated ability to set strategic vision and translate it into operational plans that deliver revenue and margin growth * Fluency in emerging commerce trends, including AI-powered and agentic shopping, with the ability to translate trends into business strategy * Strong commercial acumen, with experience structuring partner relationships and evaluating new deal structures * Experience leading marketing strategy across owned channels and emerging distribution models * Comfort operating in a test-and-learn environment, with a bias toward experimentation * Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior stakeholders using data * Excellent organizational skills and a history of fostering inclusive, high-performing team culture ## Description The Senior Commerce Director, AD is a key leadership role in the Revenue organization, reporting to the SVP, Commerce. This role sets the strategic vision for AD's commerce business across interiors, furniture, decor, and bedding, with a mandate to establish AD as a recognized direct shopping destination for the design-led consumer. The role leads a team of Editors, Writers, and Production specialists, working cross-functionally with Editorial, Product, Audience Development, and Analytics to deliver revenue and profit goals. The ideal candidate brings deep command of the design and e-commerce landscape, a track record of leading high-performing teams, and a forward-looking perspective on how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping commerce. Primary Responsibilities Strategic Vision & Content Leadership * Set the strategic vision for AD's multi-modal commerce content and shopping experience, ensuring a brand-first approach that reinforces editorial authority * Establish AD as a recognized direct shopping destination, defining the brand's position in the consumer's path to purchase and building the foundations that earn destination status * Define and evolve the content strategy framework, and establish ways of working between commerce and editorial that create an integrated content culture * Own brand-level revenue and margin targets, adjusting strategies to drive performance Team & Culture * Build a high-performing team of internal resources and external partners * Foster knowledge sharing and proactively surface challenges to leadership, using data to validate * Champion a progressive mindset, embedding experimentation and calculated risk-taking into how the brand operates Marketing & Audience Growth * Set the commerce marketing vision across newsletter, social, CRM, and promotional channels * Own audience acquisition and retention strategy in partnership with the central audience team, ensuring marketing drives measurable commerce revenue * Guide resource allocation across channels based on opportunity size and performance data * Manage and grow off-platform presence through creative partnerships and new distribution models New Revenue & Business Model Innovation * Lead business model innovation for AD, evaluating new commercial structures (direct, marketplace, hybrid, subscription, services) to unlock long-term growth * Maintain an informed point of view on how AI, conversational commerce, agentic shopping, and other emerging technologies are reshaping the e-commerce landscape, and translate that into actionable opportunities * Continuously identify and raise new revenue, distribution, and format opportunities for evaluation by senior leadership * Champion and operationalize enterprise-wide initiatives, including creator programs, off-platform partnerships, and new deal structures, ensuring they are executed in a brand-first way that maintains editorial integrity * Manage creator program strategy at the brand level and act as the primary strategic partner to partnerships and audience teams on net-new revenue Partnerships * Conceptualize and pitch new partnership opportunities, working with the partnerships team to develop and close * Develop and maintain strategic relationships with retail and brand partners to drive new revenue Cross-Functional Collaboration * Will work closely with the SVP Commerce and VP Luxury Commerce, AD Editorial leadership, Partnerships & Sales, and central teams across Audience, CRM, Social, SEO, Analytics, Product, Engineering, and Finance, alongside third-party content production, retail, brand, and creator partners. ## Related Videos - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [Intelligence Everywhere: The Future of Consumer Tech](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1702-intelligence-everywhere-the-future-of-consumer-tech) - [Edit Your Future: Queerverse Radical AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/909-edit-your-future-queerverse-radical-ai) - [The integrated AI experience: A New Paradigm in an Agentic World](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100093-the-integrated-ai-experience-a-new-paradigm-in-an-agentic-world) - [AI is dead, long live AK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1093-ai-is-dead-long-live-ak) - [Data Science on Software Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/162-data-science-on-software-data) ## Related Articles - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [SEO in an AI world - Google vs. ChatGPT and survival tips for content creators](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/534-seo-in-an-ai-world-google-vs-chatgpt-and-survival-tips-for-content-creators) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 204: Agentic AI Book, Creepy Links & Time to Ditch Projects](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/685-dev-digest-204-agentic-ai-book-creepy-links-time-to-ditch-projects) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence)