Product Manager, Information Systems & Automation, Commercial Technology

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:

The Dow Jones Commercial Technology team is looking for innovative thinkers who want to build new data platforms and deploy technologies that drive our advertising business forward. In this role, you will lead the deployment of business intelligence tools, develop automated analytics processes, and connect data across multiple sources to create insightful information systems. Working within a major publishing environment, you will be at the center of our data strategy, building products that deliver business impact globally that are highly visible to the company.

Successful product managers are effective communicators and cross-team collaborators, passionate about harnessing data to elevate business outcomes. They combine intellectual curiosity with business acumen and drive execution by partnering with stakeholders in operations, marketing, and especially engineering. You will possess and continually expand your understanding of digital media, anticipate industry trends, and craft a vision for the future of a rapidly evolving business.

This role will be hybrid based in our New York City office and will report to the Product Director, Consumer Products

You Will:

• Establish product vision and execution strategy through collaboration with advertising stakeholders in the commercial organization.
• Collaborate with commercial operations team members to identify new products and offerings to expand partnerships and increase revenue.
• Specify the definitions of new product specifications, user stories, and details taking a user-focused approach to product development.
• Oversee the development, migration, deployment and maintenance of business tools and applications, ensuring they meet the needs and workflows of stakeholders across the organization.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to develop and automate data processes and pipelines to support short-term roadmap initiatives and future AI use cases.
• Build and maintain dashboards that deliver actionable insights and workflow utility across dynamic teams and stakeholders within commercial domains.
• Leverage data and customer insights to help the executive leadership team make data-informed decisions.

You Have:

• 3+ years of Product Management experience.
• Experience analyzing qualitative and quantitative consumer research.
• Experience developing products that incorporate custom data visualization with intuitive dashboards.
• Strong project management skills, with experience defining and implementing product requirements and balancing cross-function collaboration.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including demonstrated success presenting compelling recommendations to senior business management.
• A highly strategic, analytical, and detail-oriented mindset.
• Experience using and activating solutions with platforms, including BI tools (such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker), Analytics platforms (such as Google and Adobe analytics)

Preferred:

• Experience in digital advertising, mobile apps, and/or web-based technologies.
• Experience as tech project, product, or program manager within Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development environments.
• Hands-on experience with some form of software programming or data analysis
• Experience with concepts and practices of API integration, including programming languages such as SQL and tools such as Postman.
• Experience with Cloud Data Warehousing platforms (such as BigQuery, Snowflake) and/or Data Integration Tools (such as Airflow).
• Knowledge of, or experience with AI practices and integrations.
• Knowledge of advertising technology data practices and platforms such as ad serving (ex. Google Ad Manager), order management (ex. Adbook) and custom creative (ex. Celtra) is a plus.

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 talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. 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 role

Pay Range: $125,000 - $155,000

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..