Sr Director Product Design

Job Description:

Sr. Director PD - Platforms

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• 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 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. Youll 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 dont.

• 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. Youve 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 hasnt 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 dont own org-wide talent strategy in this role but youll have real input into it and youll 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.

• Comprehensive Insurance Plans
• Paid Time Off
• Family Care Benefits
• Access to Dow Jones Products
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program
• Employee Well-being Support & Fitness Programs

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Business Area:

Dow Jones - Technology

Job Category:

Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Base Pay Range: 110000 - 135000

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