Senior Principal Product Manager - Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal•New York City, NY

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

About the Team: The Wall Street Journal is a global news organization that provides leading news, information, commentary and analysis. The Wall Street Journal engages readers across print, digital, mobile, social, podcast and video. Building on its heritage as the preeminent source of global business and financial news, the Journal includes coverage of U.S. & world news, politics, arts, culture, lifestyle, sports, and health. It holds 38 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism. The Wall Street Journal is published by Dow Jones, a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV). About the Role: As Senior Principal Product Manager forThe Wall Street Journal, you will lead product strategy for a new cross-functional team at the intersection of technology and newsroom innovation. You will define the long-term product vision for how WSJ creates, delivers, and evolves its journalism. You will also partner with senior newsroom leaders, engineers, and designers to build the experiences that support world-class reporting, enhance storytelling and deepen audience engagement. Your work will be anchored in a deep understanding of our audiences—driven by user research, behavioral insights and data that illuminate how real users discover, consume and engage with our journalism. Your ability to translate those insights into clear product direction will be essential to building meaningful, high-impact experiences. This is a role for a product leader who thrives in fast-paced, high-impact environments. You will combine editorial empathy, technical fluency and strategic foresight to transform newsroom needs into user-centered products that reach millions of readers worldwide. You will report to the Senior Vice President - Consumer Products. Impact Areas Deepening user engagement: creating audience experiences that focus on user needs to capture attention, spark interaction and build loyalty Enabling new journalism: empowering the newsroom to experiment with innovative story formats and ambitious ideas Elevating storytelling impact: supporting richer multimedia and interactive content that makes journalism more compelling

Requirements

12+ years’ of experience in a Product Manager role including experience at the Senior Principal PM / Lead IC level in which you owned strategy for complex, high-impact product domains
Proven ability to drive execution in fast-paced, mission-critical environments
Deep understanding of newsroom workflows, publishing systems, real-time content pipelines, or comparable operational systems
Exceptional stakeholder management and influence across editorial, engineering, and executive teams
Expertise in data-driven decision-making; strong ability to define and track operational + engagement KPIs
Bias toward action with ability to ship quickly while maintaining resilience and long-term technical health
Passion for empowering journalism and public-service information through modern technology

Responsibilities

Define the vision and roadmap for audience-facing products that enable newsroom priorities—from new story formats to enhanced storytelling capabilities
Lead cross-functional strategy across editorial, engineering, design and data to translate newsroom goals into high-impact user experiences
Drive product discovery through audience research, data insights, experimentation and close collaboration with newsroom partners
Develop prioritization frameworks that balance breaking-news demands with long-term innovation and audience growth
Influence senior stakeholders and make high-stakes trade-offs under tight timelines while keeping audience needs central
Mentor PMs within and across adjacent product areas, modeling product excellence and a deep understanding of both audience and newsroom needs