Job Description:

Senior Designer, Brand Marketing

Dow Jones       Job Location  NYC      Job ID  50390

Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal are seeking a talented, agile Senior Designer to join the Brand Marketing team. This role leads design and execution of mid- and lower-funnel performance marketing campaigns across WSJ, WSJ+, Barron’s, and MarketWatch, including paid platforms (Meta, Google360, Reddit, LinkedIn, etc.) and owned channels. You will also design and build email campaigns that support acquisition, engagement, and retention goals.

This role partners closely with performance marketing strategy, channel specialists, project management, and our creative production partner agency to produce impactful, brand-forward, design-driven campaigns that drive measurable results, while ensuring adherence to our brand standards. This Senior Designer role is specialized in Performance Marketing, and is central to fueling customer acquisition, informing optimization, and strengthening brand perception.

The ideal candidate is a strong visual designer—creative, strategic, systems-minded, detail-oriented, and energized by fast-paced, iterative work. You must be comfortable testing, learning, adapting, and scaling creative quickly based on real-time data and shifting priorities.

Reports to: Lead Visual Designer

You Will:

Creative Strategy & Development for Performance Marketing

• Participate in ideation sessions, creative reviews, and feedback cycles to develop and refine campaign concepts.
   

• Translate strategic direction, campaign goals, and audience insights into effective design solutions within established and evolving brand systems.
   

• Build and adapt performance marketing design systems that balance emerging visual identities with brand consistency.
   

• Design and produce high-quality creative across platforms, including static, animation, and lightweight video assets.
   

• Deliver a high volume of variations efficiently, in collaboration with Brand team and creative production agency partner, while maintaining quality, brand alignment, and a test-and-learn mindset.
   

• Present work clearly with rationale and iterate quickly based on feedback, data, and performance insights.
   

Brand Consistency & Design Execution

• Maintain deep understanding of brand guidelines and visual identity systems to ensure consistency and design excellence across all assets and channels.
   

• Execute designs that align with briefs, business objectives, and brand standards while supporting performance and scalability.
   

• Retouch images, edit video, and perform visual enhancements to ensure polished, high-quality output.
   

• Optimize creative using performance data, audience behavior, and platform insights to improve results.
   

Collaboration

• Partner closely with the Brand team, project managers, and creative production agency partner to understand objectives, plan workload, meet timelines, and deliver cohesive creative.
   

• Ensure design solutions support marketing and revenue objectives while reinforcing brand standards.
   

Best Practices, Trend Awareness, and Cultural Fluency

• Stay current on industry best practices, platform updates, competitor creative and campaigns, and emerging approaches in performance marketing design.
   

• Track social media, lifestyle, cultural, and platform-native trends to create relevant, engaging creative.
   

• Be a continuous learner, applying insights from design, creative, and category-adjacent trends to inspire new approaches.
   

What You’ll Do

• Concept, design, and deliver performance-driven creative across paid and owned channels.
   

• Build email layouts and enhance visual systems for customer engagement and acquisition flows.