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About the Team:

The Wall Street Journal is a global news organization that provides leading news, information, commentary and analysis. The Wall Street Journal engages readers across print, digital, mobile, social, podcast and video. Building on its heritage as the preeminent source of global business and financial news, the Journal includes coverage of U.S. & world news, politics, arts, culture, lifestyle, sports, and health. It holds 38 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism. The Wall Street Journal is published by Dow Jones, a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Role:

As Senior Principal Product Manager forThe Wall Street Journal, you will lead product strategy for a new cross-functional team at the intersection of technology and newsroom innovation.

You will define the long-term product vision for how WSJ creates, delivers, and evolves its journalism. You will also partner with senior newsroom leaders, engineers, and designers to build the experiences that support world-class reporting, enhance storytelling and deepen audience engagement.

Your work will be anchored in a deep understanding of our audiences—driven by user research, behavioral insights and data that illuminate how real users discover, consume and engage with our journalism. Your ability to translate those insights into clear product direction will be essential to building meaningful, high-impact experiences.

This is a role for a product leader who thrives in fast-paced, high-impact environments. You will combine editorial empathy, technical fluency and strategic foresight to transform newsroom needs into user-centered products that reach millions of readers worldwide. You will report to the Senior Vice President - Consumer Products.

Impact Areas

+ Deepening user engagement: creating audience experiences that focus on user needs to capture attention, spark interaction and build loyalty

+ Enabling new journalism: empowering the newsroom to experiment with innovative story formats and ambitious ideas

+ Elevating storytelling impact: supporting richer multimedia and interactive content that makes journalism more compelling

You Will:

+ Define the vision and roadmap for audience-facing products that enable newsroom priorities—from new story formats to enhanced storytelling capabilities

+ Lead cross-functional strategy across editorial, engineering, design and data to translate newsroom goals into high-impact user experiences

+ Drive product discovery through audience research, data insights, experimentation and close collaboration with newsroom partners

+ Develop prioritization frameworks that balance breaking-news demands with long-term innovation and audience growth

+ Influence senior stakeholders and make high-stakes trade-offs under tight timelines while keeping audience needs central

+ Mentor PMs within and across adjacent product areas, modeling product excellence and a deep understanding of both audience and newsroom needs

You Have:

+ 12+ years’ of experience in a Product Manager role including experience at the Senior Principal PM / Lead IC level in which you owned strategy for complex, high-impact product domains

+ Proven ability to drive execution in fast-paced, mission-critical environments

+ Deep understanding of newsroom workflows, publishing systems, real-time content pipelines, or comparable operational systems

+ Exceptional stakeholder management and influence across editorial, engineering, and executive teams

+ Expertise in data-driven decision-making; strong ability to define and track operational + engagement KPIs

+ Bias toward action with ability to ship quickly while maintaining resilience and long-term technical health

+ Passion for empowering journalism and public-service information through modern technology

Our Benefits

+ Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

+ Paid Time Off

+ Retirement Plans

+ Comprehensive Insurance Plans

+ Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources

+ Education Benefits

+ Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support

+ Commuter Transit Program

+ Subscription Discounts

+ Employee Referral Program

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Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area: Dow Jones - Technology

Job Category: Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $190,000 - $235,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company.As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates.The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

Req ID: 50449