Senior Manager, Newsroom Data

Dow Jones & Company • New York City, NY

5h

About The Position

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a senior manager to own and advance our newsroom’s audience-data strategy. Reporting to the Head of Data and AI and serving as a leader on the newsroom digital strategy team, this role defines how we measure success, identify opportunity and translate audience data into actionable insight across coverage, product and editorial strategy. You will set the direction for newsroom analytics and metrics, ensuring editors, journalists and leadership have the data-driven insights needed to support an audience-first newsroom. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will operate at both the strategic level, deciding what capabilities, tools and models the newsroom needs–and the execution level, prioritizing team workloads, reviewing analyses, troubleshooting dashboards and guiding technical implementation. The role includes shaping and building advanced data capabilities, including the use of machine learning and large language models to create informative, practical tools for newsroom decisionmaking. The ideal candidate brings experience in news media or a related field, a deep understanding of audience behavior and strong empathy for newsroom workflows. You are an organized, proactive leader who can manage teams, set clear priorities, and translate complex data into insights that drive real editorial and business impact.

Requirements

• Experience hiring, mentoring and leading high-performing teams of data analysts and data scientists
• Strong technical depth and the ability to operate as a subject-matter expert while leading strategy
• Deep understanding of audience behavior and a strong sense of empathy for editorial teams and newsroom culture
• A track record of building high-quality, impactful data products in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments
• Experience creating project roadmaps, prioritizing work, and holding teams accountable for delivery
• Hands-on experience with modern data and analytics tools, including Python; cloud platforms such as AWS and Google Cloud; data warehouses such as BigQuery and Snowflake; BI and visualization tools such as Looker and Tableau; and data pipeline orchestration tools like DBT
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present clearly to senior leadership and document technical systems and projects
• Strong project management skills and attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of audience data analysts and data scientists, providing clear direction, mentorship and technical guidance
• Own the newsroom’s audience data and analytics strategy, identifying and prioritizing high-impact initiatives aligned with audience-first goals
• Define, build and maintain newsroom metrics, dashboards and analytical frameworks
• Partner closely with product, audience, and content teams within the newsroom digital strategy group
• Collaborate with data analytics and engineering teams across Dow Jones
• Drive the application of advanced analytics, machine learning, and LLM-based approaches where they meaningfully improve newsroom insight and decision-making

Benefits

• 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 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed