Principal Product Designer
Dow JonesAbout the role
Job Description:
About Our Organization:
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor’s Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).
About Dow Jones Design & Research
Our Design & Research org brings together world-class designers and researchers with a unified purpose: to connect people to the news and information that matters most. We're the strategic force that transforms deep user understanding into exceptional product experiences across our entire portfolio—from The Wall Street Journal to Factiva.
Our integrated approach ensures that research insights directly shape design decisions, while design explorations reveal new research opportunities. Together, we're building coherent, accessible experiences that honor our 135-year legacy while pushing us boldly into the future. We're a globally distributed team spearheading a digital transformation at Dow Jones, newly staffed by industry leaders from Google, LinkedIn, The New York Times, and more. Through our combined expertise in design craft and research rigor, we ensure that millions of users can depend on our platforms for truth in a world full of noise.
About the Role
We're seeking a Principal Product Designer to set design strategy across multiple product areas and shape how Dow Jones approaches design at scale. This is one of our most senior individual contributor roles, requiring someone who can work directly with executive leadership to resolve strategic conflicts and identify company-wide opportunities.
As a Principal Product Designer, you'll have unique visibility across product areas and platforms, enabling you to spot patterns and opportunities that others miss. You'll work directly with SLT, ELT, and C-suite executives to shape company direction, while your design patterns become standards across major portions of Dow Jones. This role demands someone who can navigate extreme complexity, influence at the highest levels, and establish practices that become industry benchmarks.
You'll be the design voice for challenges that lack precedent, developing senior talent across multiple product areas while representing Dow Jones at industry events. Your work will directly impact business metrics across multiple years, positioning our company ahead of industry transformations.
The Principal Product Designer will report to a Sr. Manager, Director, Sr. Director, or VP within the Design & Research organization.
You Will
- Set design strategy across multiple product areas and their platform connections, working directly with SLT, ELT, and C-suite executives to shape company direction. You'll resolve conflicts between different strategic directions and help Dow Jones adapt to market changes through design leadership.
- Present to and influence executive leadership, demonstrating how thoughtfully designed products and platforms create competitive advantage. You'll synthesize competing executive concepts into unified direction and counsel leaders on decisions that reshape our entire portfolio.
- Lead company-wide strategic projects requiring alignment across all products, platforms, and business units. You'll partner with executives to remove organizational barriers and reshape how Dow Jones creates products at scale.
- Identify company-wide opportunities through your unique visibility across product areas and platforms, spotting patterns that inform multi-year strategic planning. You'll anticipate industry transformations and position Dow Jones ahead of change.
- Establish design practices that become industry benchmarks, developing new methods, frameworks, and tools that improve design practice company-wide. You'll share these approaches externally through speaking engagements and publications.
- Solve highly ambiguous, precedent-setting challenges by developing new approaches that become standard practice across the organization. You'll navigate extreme complexity to create clear strategies for executive decision-making.
- Shape platform evolution across multiple product areas, defining how platform designs create competitive advantage and enable capabilities that demonstrate real value to users and execu
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