WSJ+ Platform Editors

Job Description:

Dow Jones is seeking a platform editor to join the team behind WSJ a premium digital product offering personalized news and analysis from four prestigious titles: The Wall Street Journal Barrons MarketWatch and Investors 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 editor youll play a key role in enhancing the user experience by ensuring content is meeting the subscribers needs.

At Dow Jones youll be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking company at the heart of the financial world. We offer a collaborative inclusive work environment where youll 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/London and will report into the Chief Newswire Editor.

You will:

• Implement content strategy: Help develop the content offering on WSJ with two main goalsengaging 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.

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

You have:

• Experience: at least one year 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 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 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:

Union role

Pay Range: $80000 - $90000

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 candidates 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..