B2B Marketing Design Lead

Job Description:

Dow Jones is seeking a talented and dynamic B2B Design Lead. This role sits under the Creative Director and will support the B2B side of the business.

The B2B Design Lead will maximize the talents of their team, acting as a leader-doer. This hands-on role will oversee design projects across B2B, ensuring brand consistency and high-caliber work.

We believe that an open and collaborative workplace fosters the best work. The ideal candidate must be an excellent communicator, open to new ideas, and an experienced lead — contributing to a culture where creative excellence comes to life. 

You Will:

• Oversee all brand and visual design projects for B2B, from conception to delivery.
• Develop brand architecture, design visual identities, and conceptualize campaigns.
• Ensure brand consistency throughout all brand marketing projects.
• Design and oversee original work, including visual identity, illustration and data visualization.
• Review and lead the creative team’s work to ensure design excellence.
• Manage designers and other creative resources to deliver projects on tight deadlines.
• Review and guide the creative team’s work to ensure quality standards and adherence to project and business objectives.
• Work with multiple stakeholders to translate business objectives into creative briefs, and guide projects from big vision to execution.
• Understand and define project architecture from vision to execution, build project roadmaps to build coalition and guide progress. 
• Share knowledge and inspire the team with knowledge of design trends, and deep interest in the creative landscape. 

You Have:

• 10+ years of experience as a Design Lead, Senior Designer or similar role.
• Portfolio demonstrating proven design ability, refined sensibility for UI, color and typography.
• Deep experience in building and evolving visual identity systems. 
• Keen creative sensibility and dedication to design and typographic excellence. 
• Proven experience leading creative teams on complex projects from concept through execution. 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, matrixed environment on multiple projects at one time.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively present to and influence stakeholders.
• Strong project management and organization skills.
• Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite.
• Intermediate skill level in Figma. 
• Ideally, a BA or MA degree in Design, Visual Communication, or a relevant field.

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 [email protected]. 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 - CMO - Marketing

Job Category:

Creative & Design

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $135,000 - $165,000

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..