Job Description:

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:

As the VP of Commercial Technology, you will be responsible for delivering the product portfolio and technologies that drive business for the WSJ|Barrons Group commercial organization. You will oversee product teams that steer the engineering and data science delivery roadmap to execute market-leading data products, ad experiences, internal tools and compliance solutions across a portfolio that includes The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and more. As a deeply collaborative partner to the commercial revenue organization, this high-impact role demands a strategic leader who excels in driving revenue growth, operational excellence, and client satisfaction through innovative, scalable technologies.

You Will:

• Lead Commercial Product Innovation: Drive the development of an exclusive, and performant commercial product portfolio, including front-end ad formats and backend data, audience & identity and brand safety offerings that deliver on client business objectives, differentiate Dow Jones in the marketplace, and deliver significant digital revenue growth.

• Optimize the Advertising Experience: Ensure Dow Jones’ ad platforms, both on web and app, provide an optimized experience for consumers while delivering elevated, best-in-class ad products for marketers. Drive a balanced ad footprint with accountability for web vitals for consumers and revenue yield for the commercial business.

• Develop Internal Data Utilities: Lead the development of advanced analytics applications that provide the commercial team with valuable, actionable insights. Provide commercial teams with improved access to advertising and consumer behavior data that contextualizes Dow Jones’ unique consumer behavior, supports campaign optimization, and informs data-driven business decisions. Monitor critical metrics to proactively improve yield, maximize revenue capacity, and mitigate risks of revenue loss.

• Drive Operational Efficiency: Implement and oversee automation technologies that streamline internal processes, improving the productivity of the digital operations and client success teams. Identify opportunities to deploy new and improved tool sets that augment go-to-market and campaign lifecycles.  Partner with commercial teams to make strategic investment decisions for critical enterprise functions, including but not limited to management systems, business intelligence, ad serving and verification, brand safety, consent tech and data management, making calculated decisions between licensed software and home-grown tech.

• Execute Commercial Leadership Priorities: Act as a vital bridge between the commercial leadership team and technology, ensuring the alignment of market needs and client feedback with the product development roadmap. Streamline communication channels to enhance decision-making and execution speed.

• Mitigate Regulatory Risks: Lead the deployment of privacy and compliance technologies that ensure adherence to evolving regulatory standards. Collaborate across internal teams to deliver solutions that protect user data while maintaining business agility.

• Scale Across Platforms & Brands: Oversee all advertising-related technology for WSJ|Barron’s Group digital publications. Drive integration and collaboration with other Dow Jones and NewsCorp business units to leverage potential synergies in technology and operations for the company.

You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree (technical major preferred)

• 7+ years of software-related program or product management experience preferably with digital businesses.

• 4+ yrs experience developing multi-year operating strategies including financial forecasts of costs and benefits for technical products

• 3+ yrs experience with product portfolio management, including scale, evolve or sunset decision analysis and recommendation ownership

• Demonstrated experience with influencing senior business management.

• Evidence-driven analytical mindset that prefers measurable outcomes to hyperbole

• Demonstrated success developing and market-testing new products that grow businesses

• Experience in digital advertising, mobile apps and/or web-based technologies.

• Hands-on experience with some form of software programming, whether scripting, SQL, analytics or advanced languages

• Experience with data analytics systems (relational databases, dashboarding tools)

• Previous executive leadership experience focused on digital operations, product development and/or technology platform development

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

• Paid Time Off

• Retirement Plans

• Comprehensive Insurance Plans

• Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources

• Education Benefits

• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support

• Commuter Transit Program

• Subscription Discounts

• Employee Referral Program

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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 - Technology

Job Category:

Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union rolePay Range: $240,000 - $290,000We 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..