WSJ+ Senior Platform Editor

Job Description:

Dow Jones is seeking an experienced senior platform editor to join and help manage the team behind WSJ+, a premium digital product offering personalized news and analysis from four prestigious titles: The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Investor’s Business Daily.

WSJ+ is an innovative subscription service designed for business-minded audiences who want personalized content that helps them make smarter decisions about their money, investments, and financial futures. As a WSJ+ senior platform editor, you’ll play a key role in enhancing the user experience by ensuring content is meeting the subscribers' needs.

At Dow Jones, you’ll be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking company at the heart of the financial world. We offer a collaborative, inclusive work environment where you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of premium digital content and personalization for millions of subscribers worldwide.

This role is based in New York and will report into the Chief Newswire Editor.

You will:

• Implement content strategy: Help develop the content offering on WSJ+ with two main goals–engaging bundle subscribers more deeply through personalization and building cross-brand discovery.

• Optimize product experience: Monitor the WSJ+ product ecosystem daily to ensure a seamless dynamic product experience and address time-sensitive or contextual gaps as they arise.

• Maintain metadata accuracy: Ensure metadata is properly managed in the content management system, reflecting the content accurately and consistently.

• Leverage data for growth: Use audience feedback and audience analytics, provided by the Marketing team, to identify opportunities to improve user engagement and drive subscriber growth.

• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with product, tech and editorial teams to improve functionality, assist in technology enhancements and contribute to ongoing product discussions.

• Uphold editorial integrity: Maintain the high standards of Dow Jones, ensuring all content adheres to our editorial ethics and brand voice.

You have:

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in a digital newsroom, with a background in editing, writing, production and product development. Familiarity with the intersection of editorial and tech is a plus.

• Financial acumen: Strong understanding of financial markets, corporate developments, and economic trends. Prior reporting experience is a plus.

• Subscriber-focused: Experience working for a subscriber-driven product or service, especially one aimed at delivering premium content and personalized user experiences.

• Judgment and initiative: Excellent news judgment and the ability to balance urgent needs with long-term objectives. You should be proactive in spotting challenges and opportunities.

• Adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-paced, complex environment where ambiguity and change are constant.

• Communication skills: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate ideas and collaborate effectively across teams.

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/AA/M/F/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 [email protected]. 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 - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Editorial/Journalism

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: 95,000 - 110,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

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..