Job Description:

SVP Consumer Ventures

Location: New York
Reports to: Chief Growth Officer and Global Head Consumer

Role Overview

The SVP Consumer Ventures will lead the identification incubation and early scaling of new consumer businesses that extend beyond Dow Jones core subscription and advertising models. This role is responsible for building net-new revenue linesfrom concept through launch and early scaleusing strategy as a tool to drive execution commercial outcomes and long-term value creation.

Sitting within the Consumer organization this role works closely with GMs Product & Technology Editorial Sales Marketing Legal and Corporate Development. The focus is on early-stage business development: shaping strategy validating demand and economics defining operating models and accelerating high-potential initiatives to market readiness. As initiatives mature they may scale within existing businesses transition to dedicated general management or continue under the SVPs ownership.

This role carries end-to-end accountability for the success or failure of initiatives under its remit including strategic direction commercial performance and operational execution through early scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate new consumer growth opportunities across media memberships events commerce platforms and emerging distribution models including AI platforms and new content ecosystems.

• Lead market assessment and validation efforts including customer research market sizing pricing strategy and unit-economic modeling.

• Incubate new initiatives from concept through launch and initial scale with direct accountability for meeting defined revenue and growth targets.

• Own successful initiatives through early scale including interim P&L responsibility until transitioned to a dedicated GM or integrated into an existing business.

• Partner cross-functionally to move initiatives from concept to execution efficiently within a scaled organization.

• Define and implement early operating models success metrics and team structures to support long-term scalability.

• Build and manage teams as needed to support venture development and execution.

• Establish a disciplined repeatable approach for developing testing and scaling new consumer revenue lines.

• Partner with senior leaders to design and launch net-new ARPU drivers through bundling tiering and add-on products ensuring alignment with brand and editorial standards.

• Identify and assess inorganic growth opportunities in the consumer space; serve as a key business-side lead for consumer-facing transactions partnering with Corporate Development through diligence structuring and execution.

• Lead post-close integration and value capture for consumer acquisitions ensuring new brands are positioned for growth within the Dow Jones Consumer portfolio.
  

Qualifications

• 15 years of experience in strategy venture development growth leadership or commercial roles within digital media subscription businesses consumer technology or adjacent industries.

• Experience in top-tier management consulting or corporate strategy roles with a proven ability to translate complex analysis into real-world execution.

• MBA and/or JD preferred or equivalent experience building and scaling new consumer businesses.

• Strong commercial judgment with experience evaluating P&Ls unit economics and investment trade-offs.

• Demonstrated ability to take early-stage ideas from concept through launch in complex cross-functional environments.

• Experience structuring and managing partnerships transactions or commercial agreements.

• Analytical action-oriented decision-maker with comfort operating in ambiguity.

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 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 - Marketing

Job Category:

Marketing & Product Management

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: 405000 - 450000

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..