Senior Principal Product Manager
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.
About the Role
As Senior Principal Product Manager for The 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 audiencesdriven 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
You Will
Define the vision and roadmap for audience-facing products that enable newsroom prioritiesfrom new story formats to enhanced storytelling capabilitiesLead cross-functional strategy across editorial, engineering, design, and data to translate newsroom goals into high-impact user experiencesDrive product discovery through audience research, data insights, experimentation, and close collaboration with newsroom partnersDevelop prioritization frameworks that balance breaking-news demands with long-term innovation and audience growthInfluence senior stakeholders and make high-stakes trade-offs under tight timelines while keeping audience needs centralMentor PMs within and across adjacent product areas, modeling product excellence and a deep understanding of both audience and newsroom needsYou Have
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 domainsProven ability to drive execution in fast-paced, mission-critical environmentsDeep understanding of newsroom workflows, publishing systems, real-time content pipelines, or comparable operational systemsExceptional stakeholder management and influence across editorial, engineering, and executive teamsExpertise in data-driven decision-making; strong ability to define and track operational + engagement KPIsBias toward action with ability to ship quickly while maintaining resilience and long-term technical healthPassion for empowering journalism and public-service information through modern technologyOur Benefits
Comprehensive Healthcare PlansPaid Time OffRetirement PlansComprehensive Insurance PlansLifestyle Programs & Wellness ResourcesEducation BenefitsFamily Care Benefits & Caregiving SupportCommuter Transit ProgramSubscription DiscountsEmployee Referral ProgramLearn more about all our US benefits