Manager, Strategy & Business Operations

Job Description:About the Role:

The Chief of Staff to the Chief Growth Officer & Global Head of Consumer is a force-multiplier role designed to accelerate execution, sharpen strategy, and ensure coherence across Dow Jones's global consumer businesses.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, communications, and leadership. You will help translate big ideas into executable plans, connect teams that don't naturally connect, and ensure the CGO is operating at maximum leverage — internally and externally.

This is not an administrative role. It is a career-accelerating position for someone who wants exposure to senior leadership, complex media businesses, and real P&L-adjacent decision-making.

You Will:

Be the Strategic Partner to the CGO

• Act as a thought partner on consumer growth strategy across subscriptions, engagement, video, events, and new businesses
• Pressure-test ideas, structure ambiguous problems, and develop clear points of view for decision-making
• Help frame multi-year strategic narratives — not just quarterly plans

Function as the Operating & Execution Backbone

• Drive follow-through on top priorities across the consumer organization
• Track progress against key initiatives; surface risks early and propose solutions
• Coordinate across product, editorial, marketing, data, finance, and commercial teams to ensure alignment and momentum
• Prepare materials for operating reviews, ELT updates, and board-level discussions

Be the Connective Tissue Across the Consumer Group

• Serve as a central node connecting leaders across WSJ, Barron's, MarketWatch, IBD, video, events, and new ventures
• Help eliminate silos by clarifying ownership, timelines, and success metrics
• Translate between different "languages" — editorial, product, marketing, finance, tech

Craft Communications, Narrative & Speech Prep

• Draft and refine speeches, talking points, memos, and presentations for internal and external audiences
• Help shape the CGO's voice across town halls, leadership meetings, conferences, and media appearances
• Ensure consistency of message across strategy, execution, and culture

Lead Special Projects & New Bets

• Lead or support high-impact strategic projects (e.g., new consumer products, partnerships, acquisitions, pilots)
• Conduct market analysis, competitive assessments, and business case development
• Work closely with strategy, corporate development, and finance as needed

You Have:

• 5-7 years post-undergrad experience
• Experience in media, technology, consumer, or subscriptions is a plus but not required
• Exceptionally strong structured thinker — can turn chaos into clarity
• Excellent writer and communicator (this role writes a lot)
• High judgment, low ego, and comfortable operating with senior leaders
• Comfortable moving between strategy and execution — slides one minute, details the next
• Naturally curious, intellectually rigorous, and commercially minded
• Able to operate with discretion and trust

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plans
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Plans
• Education Benefits
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Family Care Benefits
• Commuter Transit Program
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program

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/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 - Marketing

Job Category:

Marketing & Product Management

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..