Vice President of Product, Wall Street Journal

Job Description:

About the Role:

Vice President of Product - Wall Street Journal, you will define and drive the overarching product vision and strategy for one of the world’s most trusted and influential news organizations. You will lead a high-performing product organization responsible for shaping how WSJ journalism is delivered, experienced, and monetized across platforms including web and mobile app. You will partner closely with engineering, design, newsroom leadership, marketing, and executive stakeholders to ensure WSJ continues to innovate while delivering meaningful value to millions of readers worldwide. You will balance long-term product transformation with near-term execution, ensuring that WSJ’s product strategy aligns with company objectives, strengthens audience engagement, and supports sustainable business growth. You will report to the Senior Vice President - Consumer Products.

About the Team:

The Wall Street Journal is a global news organization that provides leading news, information, commentary and analysis. The Wall Street Journal engages readers across print, digital, mobile, social, podcast and video. Building on its heritage as the preeminent source of global business and financial news, the Journal includes coverage of U.S. & world news, politics, arts, culture, lifestyle, sports, and health. It holds 38 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism. The Wall Street Journal is published by Dow Jones, a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

You Will:

• Define and execute the overarching multi-year product vision and strategy for The Wall Street Journal, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and long-term business goals

• Lead and develop a senior product organization, mentoring Directors and Product Leaders while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration

• Partner cross-functionally with engineering, design, newsroom leadership, marketing, and commercial teams to deliver high-impact initiatives that advance WSJ’s journalism and audience experiences

• Drive prioritization and trade-off decisions across a complex portfolio, balancing breaking-news demands, platform resilience, audience growth, and revenue strategy

• Oversee product roadmaps, performance metrics, and investment planning, ensuring strong analytical rigor, operational excellence, and measurable outcomes

• Represent product strategy at the highest levels of the organization, serving as a key voice in executive decision-making and long-term business planning

• Champion deep customer understanding and market insight, ensuring product innovation is grounded in audience needs, competitive dynamics, and technical feasibility

You Have:

• 15+ years of experience in Product Management, including leadership of multiple product teams and significant business areas

• Proven track record of setting and executing product strategy across complex portfolios with measurable audience and business impact

• Deep expertise in digital media, subscription-driven products, newsroom workflows, or comparable high-scale consumer content ecosystems

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior executives, editorial leaders, and cross-functional partners at the highest levels

• Strong analytical and operational discipline: ability to define success metrics, oversee performance reporting, and guide investment decisions

• Experience building and scaling diverse, high-performing product organizations, fostering innovation and talent growth

• Passion for empowering world-class journalism through modern technology, product excellence, and audience-first thinking

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

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Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at View email address on swooped.co. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - Technology

Job Category:

Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $245,000 - $295,000

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Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..