Principal Product Designer, Platforms

Job Description:

About Our Organization:

Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.

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 executives.
• Develop senior design talent across multiple product areas, mentoring Principal-level designers and advising executives on design leadership. You'll create talent pipelines and foster inclusion in high-stakes decisions.
• Set and embody quality standards that influence major portions of Dow Jones, establishing processes that maintain excellence across all products, markets, and platforms worldwide.
• Build external partnerships with agencies, vendors, and academic institutions that enhance our capabilities, while establishing Dow Jones's reputation as a design leader through industry presence.

You Have:

• 10+ years of product design experience, with significant time spent setting strategy for complex, multi-product organizations.
• A portfolio demonstrating strategic impact at scale, showing how you've shaped company direction, resolved conflicts between competing strategies, and delivered measurable business value across multiple years.
• Proven track record working with C-level executives, presenting to boards, and influencing company-wide decisions through design leadership.
• Experience setting design strategy for multiple product areas simultaneously, with demonstrated ability to balance competing priorities and resolve strategic conflicts.
  Excellence in platform thinking, with a history of establishing patterns that become standards across major portions of an organization.
• Demonstrated thought leadership through speaking at major conferences, published articles, or industry recognition for design excellence.
• Track record of solving unprecedented challenges, creating new methods or frameworks when existing approaches don't suffice.
• Strong business acumen with ability to connect design decisions to multi-year business outcomes, speaking fluently about metrics, market dynamics, and competitive positioning.
• Experience building design capabilities at scale, including establishing operations, governance models, and talent development programs.
• Proven ability to navigate organizational complexity, working across business units, geographies, and cultures to drive alignment on strategic initiatives.
• Deep expertise across design disciplines, from visual design to systems thinking, with ability to coach others and set standards for excellence.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Design, HCI, or related field (advanced degree strongly preferred).

Nice to Have:

• Experience in media, publishing, or financial services at enterprise scale
• Background in design transformation or digital modernization initiatives
• Track record of M&A integration or product consolidation through design
• Experience establishing design organizations in global companies
• Published books, research, or significant thought leadership in design
• Board or advisory experience for design-forward companies
• Teaching experience at university level or executive education programs
• Patents or innovations in design methods or tools
• Experience with emerging technologies (AI/ML) at strategic level
• International business experience and cross-cultural design leadership

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans for you and your family
• Paid Time Off (30 days a year)
• Meal Vouchers
• Retirement Plans
• Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources
• Education Benefits
• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program
• Financial Health Programs
• Cybersecurity Protection

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including women, people with disabilities, and those from underrepresented groups.

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Business Area:

Dow Jones - Technology

Job Category:

Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Base Pay Range: EUR 70,000 - EUR 90,000

We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.

For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.