Product Designer II

Product Designer II 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, Market Watch, 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).

Our Design & Research org brings together world-class designers and researchers with a unified purpose: to connect people to the news and information that matters most. We're the strategic force that transforms deep user understanding into exceptional product experiences across our entire portfolio—from The Wall Street Journal to Factiva.

Our integrated approach ensures that research insights directly shape design decisions, while design explorations reveal new research opportunities. Together, we're building coherent, accessible experiences that honor our 135-year legacy while pushing us boldly into the future. We're a globally distributed team spearheading a digital transformation at Dow Jones, newly staffed by industry leaders from Google, Linked In, The New York Times, and more.

Through our combined expertise in design craft and research rigor, we ensure that millions of users can depend on our platforms for truth in a world full of noise.

We're seeking a Product Designer II to own complex feature areas within our products and help shape the experiences that deliver Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism to millions of users worldwide. This role is perfect for a designer ready to work independently while contributing to our broader design system and mentoring emerging talent.

As a Product Designer II, you'll own end-to-end design for sophisticated features—like entire user profile sections or complex data visualization systems—from problem definition through post-launch optimization. You'll make independent design decisions, contribute patterns to our Index Design System, and partner closely with your Product and Engineering triad to deliver measurable business outcomes. This is an opportunity to directly impact how professionals access critical information and how readers engage with world-class journalism.

You'll balance user needs with technical feasibility and business viability, creating solutions that work across different user types while maintaining the quality and consistency our users expect. Your work will set the standard for craft excellence within your feature area while contributing to the systematic improvement of our entire platform.

The Product Designer II will report to a Design Manager within the Design & Research organization.

• Own complex feature design end-to-end
  , taking responsibility for sophisticated areas like user profiles, data tables, or subscription flows from initial problem definition through post-launch optimization. You'll monitor metrics after launch and iterate based on user feedback and data insights to ensure your features achieve their intended outcomes.
• Work independently with your Triad partners (Product Manager and Engineering Lead) to navigate constraints, prioritize initiatives, and deliver solutions that balance user needs, technical feasibility, and business value. You'll lead design discussions with stakeholders and present your work to senior leadership with clear rationale rooted in design principles and user research.
• Contribute to the Index Design System by identifying reusable patterns from your feature work and documenting them for broader adoption. You'll help evolve our design language based on real‑world implementation experience and ensure consistency across products while knowing when to propose thoughtful…