Product Designer

Job Description:

Product Designer

Barcelona - Job ID - DTE3025

About Our Organization:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Team:

Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers, and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video, and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Product Designer in Barcelona to work on the evolution of our B2B products from Discovery to Delivery. You'll manage complex projects, ensuring cross-product integration, and creating user-centered solutions..

This position is instrumental in navigating complex project management scenarios, driving product evolution, and ensuring seamless cross-integration with other products and systems. We are looking for an individual who excels at transforming intricate challenges into elegant, user-centered solutions and possesses a robust portfolio demonstrating the ability to manage multifaceted projects and advance product experiences.

You Will

• Own design strategy for your entire product while contributing to basic platform patterns that other teams can leverage. You'll define the strategic direction for your product, identifying how it connects to platform capabilities and establishing principles that guide all design decisions within your product's features and touchpoints.
• Navigate significant ambiguity independently, escalating only problems that cannot be solved at your level. You'll create frameworks that help your team make progress even when long-term direction is unclear, balancing your product-specific needs with platform-wide consistency requirements.
• Lead cross-team initiatives that require alignment between multiple squads, breaking down silos and ensuring coherent experiences across organizational boundaries. You'll orchestrate design efforts that span your entire product while contributing to platform capabilities that benefit the broader ecosystem.
• Set and maintain quality standards for your entire product, pushing creative boundaries while maintaining usability and accessibility. You'll review and elevate design work across your product team, establishing benchmarks that others aspire to achieve.
• Make strategic design decisions that affect business metrics over multiple quarters, balancing long-term vision with short-term needs. You'll use data and research to demonstrate impact, building dashboards with your Triad to monitor performance and inform future decisions.
• Contribute to platform evolution through basic but critical patterns like search, navigation, or data visualization. You'll work at the intersection of product and platform, ensuring your solutions scale beyond your immediate scope while maintaining your product's unique needs.
• Mentor designers across your product through structured programs and detailed feedback, helping them develop both craft excellence and strategic thinking. You'll lead workshops on product-wide design approaches and contribute to hiring decisions for your team.
• Present to senior leadership beyond your immediate Triad, advocating for design decisions that shape your product and influence platform direction. You'll translate complex design strategies into compelling narratives that demonstrate business value and secure stakeholder buy-in.

You Have

• 4+ years of experience, with demonstrated ability to manage design strategy for entire products or complex product areas.
• A portfolio demonstrating design thinking at scale, showing how you've shaped product direction, established design systems, and delivered measurable revenue across multiple quarters.
• Experience leading design for entire products, not just features, with ability to balance multiple stakeholder needs and navigate competing priorities across teams.
• Experience with platform-level thinking, contributing patterns and frameworks that scale beyond individual products while maintaining coherence across diverse use cases.
• Excellence in design craft and systems thinking, with understanding of how to create scalable, maintainable design solutions that work across different contexts and user types.
• You have the ability to connect design decisions to metrics like engagement, retention, and revenue. You speak the language of business and can demonstrate Return for design investments.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices, ensuring your products work for all users regardless of ability.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Design, HCI, or related field (advanced degree preferred).

Nice to Have

• Experience in news media, publishing, or enterprise information services
• Background designing for both B2B and B2C audiences
• Experience with design operations and governance at scale
• Track record of successful platform/infrastructure design initiatives
• Knowledge of emerging technologies (AI/ML) and their application to design
• Published thought leadership or speaking experience at industry events
• Experience with international products and cross-cultural design considerations
• Background in establishing design metrics and measurement frameworks
• Experience contributing to open-source design systems or industry standards

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans for you and your family (paid by Dow Jones)
• Extra paid Time Off (30 days of holidays/year)
• Possibility to work remotely for 3 months/year (desplazamiento program) or one week of remote work per quarter
• Meal benefit with Pluxee (171€/month on top of your salary)
• Retirement Plans (Dow Jones will pay 2% of a members Pensionable Salary and match employee contribution up to a maximum of 3 %).
• Comprehensive Insurance Plans
• Well-being Resources (200 USD allowance per quarter, Classpass, etc.)
• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program

#LI-hybrid

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

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. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including women, people with disabilities, and those from underrepresented groups. 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 - Technology

Job Category:

Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union / A clear and likely internal candidate