Director of Product Design

Job Description Product Design Director

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.

We’re seeking a Product Design Director to lead a mid-size organization spanning a major product or business unit, setting portfolio-level strategy while building management bench strength. This role is for a senior leader ready to transform organizational needs into concrete design initiatives with measurable impact.

As a Product Design Director, you’ll partner with senior stakeholders including VPs and other directors to establish your team as strategic partners to the business. You’ll lead design managers and their teams, creating systematic approaches to product design quality and talent development while building the organizational capability to deliver s is an opportunity to enable portfolio-wide excellence through your managers while developing the next generation of design leaders.

You’ll translate organizational needs into concrete initiatives, drive alignment when teams have competing priorities, and take accountability for your portfolio’s success. This role demands someone who can operate at the intersection of strategy and execution, building organizational capability while delivering business outcomes.

The Product Design Director will report to a Senior Director, VP, or SVP within the Design & Research organization.

This is a hybrid position, based in Barcelona.

• Lead a mid-size organization spanning a major product or business unit, setting portfolio-level design direction while empowering managers to make decisions within established frameworks. You’ll own program-level outcomes that impact business objectives, translating organizational needs into concrete product design initiatives with measurable impact.

• Build strategic partnerships with senior stakeholders including peer Directors, Sr. Directors, and VPs to align on complex objectives. You’ll drive alignment across your Triad partners, Marketing, and Editorial teams, establishing high design standards while navigating political dynamics.

• Develop organizational talent strategy by managing your managers, coaching them on people management fundamentals and cross-functional collaboration. You’ll allocate talent based on skills and strategic priorities, participate in hiring decisions, and shape recruiting strategy while building partnerships with internal and external recruiters.

• Create strategic thinking capability across your portfolio area, enabling managers to see beyond individual projects. You’ll establish partnerships with Data & AI and Research that inform portfolio strategy, building forums where teams propose program direction based on data-informed understanding of user behavior.

• Establish scalable design operations that enable best practices across your program area while maintaining team agility. You’ll define…