Job Description:
Product Design DirectorAbout Dow Jones Design & Research
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, LinkedIn, 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.
About the Role
The Energy business unit at Dow Jones runs a large, complex portfolio of products: Opis, McCloskey, CMA, Axxiss, Retail, A2i, Eco Innovations, and more, that serves professionals who make high-stakes decisions in global energy markets. Product Design at Dow Jones is crucial to ensure the right decisions are made, and that's exactly why this role exists. You'll lead a talented design team towards excellence as genuine product partners, raising the quality of the work and the weight of design's voice in every room that matters.
You Will
Lead and develop a design team embedded across the Energy portfolio, enabling true product ownership,
Build the kind of working relationships with product managers and engineers where design is part of the strategy conversation, not just the delivery queue
Navigate a business unit with its own history, identity, and stakeholders, while earning trust across a complex portfolio,
Set a clear vision for what good design looks like across a diverse set of products, and hold the team accountable to it
Coach designers to think in outcomes, not outputs and helping them connect their work to what users actually need and what the business is actually trying to achieve
Make the case for design investment clearly and credibly to senior stakeholders who are used to running without a strong design function
Hire, retain, and grow the team as the portfolio evolves, keeping standards high and giving people real room to develop
You Have
8+ years in product design, leading design teams across multiple products simultaneously
A track record of transforming design teams, not just managing them. Specifically in environments where design was undervalued or under-integrated
Real experience working closely with product and engineering leadership, influencing roadmaps and strategy, not just executing on them
Strong stakeholder management skills: you can read a room, navigate competing priorities, and bring people along without losing the thread of what you're actually trying to build
Comfort operating in a complex, semi-autonomous business environment. You don't need everything to be perfectly organized before you can move
Experience with B2B or data-intensive products is a genuine advantage; familiarity with energy, commodities, or financial information markets is a bonus, not a requirement
A portfolio or body of work that shows design raising the bar on both the product and the business side. Not just beautiful screens, but demonstrable impact
Comprehensive Healthcare Plans for you and your family (paid by Dow Jones)
Extra paid Time Off (30 days of holidays/year)
Possibility to work remotely for 3 months/year (desplazamiento program) and one week of remote work per quarter
Meal benefit with Pluxee (171€/month on top of your salary)
Retirement Plans (Dow Jones will pay 2% of a members Pensionable Salary and match employee contribution up to a maximum of 3 %).
Live insurance
Well-being Resources (185€ allowance per quarter, Classpass, Spring Health, etc.)
Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
Hone and Linkedin learning courses for your further development
Employee Referral Program
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This is a hybrid position, based in Barcelona
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Business Area:
Dow Jones - Technology
Job Category:
Software Product Engineering
Union Status:
Non-Union role
Base Pay Range: 95,000 € - 120,000 €
We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.
For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.
For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.
Skills Required
- 12+ years of product design experience with 5+ years in leadership, including managing managers or leading complex organizational initiatives.
- Proven track record leading portfolio-level scaled design initiatives and translating strategy into measurable design programs.
- Excellence in stakeholder management with ability to influence and align senior leaders including VPs and C-level executives.
- Strong organizational development skills: talent planning, performance management, succession planning, building management teams.
- Business and strategic acumen to connect design initiatives to OKRs, create business cases, and demonstrate ROI for design investments.
- Experience with design operations at scale: processes, governance, and infrastructure enabling design quality and efficiency.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Design, HCI, or related field.
- Advanced degree in Design, HCI, or related field.
- Experience in media, publishing, or financial services.
- Background in organizational transformation or change management.
- Track record of building design organizations from scratch.
- Experience with M&A integration or product consolidation.
- External visibility through speaking, writing, or industry leadership.
- Experience managing distributed global teams.
- Background in both B2B and B2C products at enterprise scale.
What We Do
When you join Dow Jones, you become part of the most dynamic, creative and savvy news and information companies in the world. As a global leader in news and business intelligence, we're newswires, websites, newspapers, apps, newsletters, databases, magazines, and video --including some of the widest-read and most-respected brands, like The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Financial News, DJX, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource. Our products inform the discussions and decisions that are vital to the world's commerce, while our databases make the business world more transparent. We continually develop technology to transform information into insight and prosperity. We enlighten and inspire audiences around the globe with authoritative, differentiated and trusted content.
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