About Our Organization:
Dow Jones is a integral 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 hiring a Senior Director of Product Design to lead the design of the platform and design system that every Dow Jones B2B product is built on: Factiva, Risk & Compliance, Geopolitical Risk, and NewsWires.
You'll lead a small team and report to the VP of Product Design for B2B. Your job is to set the standard, the patterns, components, and principles that every B2B designer and engineer inherits. When the platform ships well, every product gets better.
This role is for someone who sees a design system not as a component library but as a product in its own right with users (our designers and engineers), a roadmap, and real outcomes to drive.
You Will
- Own the platform and the design system. Define how our B2B platform looks, feels, and behaves. Set the navigation, data, and interaction patterns every product inherits — and decide when to hold the line and when to give product teams room to override.
- Lead a small, senior team. Hire, coach, and protect a team of designers who can operate as system-thinkers and credible partners to product leads across Factiva, Risk & Compliance, Geopolitical Risk, and NewsWires.
- Partner across the B2B triad. Work directly with product, engineering, and research leadership to align on what ships, when, and why. You'll be the design counterpart in the conversations that shape the portfolio for years.
- Turn fragmentation into coherence. Our B2B products grew up separately. Find the shared patterns, name the real differences, and turn a collection of products into something that feels like one platform.
- Treat the design system like a product. Roadmap, adoption metrics, contribution model, governance. Measure whether teams actually use what you ship — and fix it when they don't.
You Have
- 15+ years of product design experience with 7+ years in senior leadership, with a track record of leading teams of varying sizes — what matters is the impact, not the headcount.
- Deep experience building and governing design systems and platforms that other teams actually adopt. You've shipped the system, measured its uptake, and fixed it when teams routed around it.
- Executive presence — you can hold your own with C-level stakeholders, represent design externally, and bring a point of view into rooms where design hasn't had one.
- Strategic partnership with product and engineering leadership, connecting design decisions to business outcomes over multi-year horizons.
- A hiring and coaching instinct. You don't own org-wide talent strategy in this role, but you'll have real input into it — and you'll be trusted to build a small, senior team that punches above its weight.
- Experience in B2B at enterprise scale — media, publishing, or enterprise technology. You understand what it means when the user is a professional doing their job, not a consumer filling time.
Our Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
- Paid Time Off
- Retirement Plans
- Comprehensive Insurance Plans
- Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources
- Education Benefits
- Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
- Commuter Transit Program
- Subscription Discounts
- Employee Referral Program