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, Linked In, 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 s 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…