Location: New York or US-Remote
About the TeamOur 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 RoleWe are seeking a Senior Director of ML Engineering to lead the technical vision, development, and integration of generative AI experiences on vertical products. You will tackle the complex challenges of scaling AI solutions, leveraging our centrally built AI foundations and frameworks, to innovate and deliver exceptional user experiences for our customers. This is a hands-on leadership role that blends technical depth, product thinking, and people leadership.
Reporting to the SVP, Data & AI Engineering, you will partner closely with Product, Design, and Data Science to seamlessly weave LLMs and AI-driven capabilities into the specialized workflows that our professional users rely on daily.
You Will- Set the technical vision: Develop, own, and execute the technical strategy and engineering roadmap for applying AI to solve our customers challenges, balancing innovation with production stability.
- Lead and scale teams: Lead, inspire, and scale high-performing cross-functional engineering teams building AI infrastructure, agentic integrations, and robust backend services.
- Drive cross-functional alignment: Drive alignment and build consensus among diverse senior stakeholders in and outside of Technology.
- Ensure operational excellence: Ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable systems that meet stringent performance SLAs, and establish robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.
- Champion responsible AI: Ensure that models meet standards for quality, fairness, explainability, and regulatory/compliance requirements.
- Extensive experience: 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 7+ years in senior leadership, demonstrating a track record of leading teams of varying sizes to high-impact outcomes.
- Domain expertise: Deep technical expertise and hands-on experience in machine learning pipelines and real-time data architectures at scale.
- Bridge-building capability: Demonstrated experience translating customer needs and technical possibilities—informed by a strong understanding of backend technologies, ML infrastructure, and Generative AI concepts—into actionable engineering plans and scalable product solutions.
- Executive presence: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences and operate effectively in a matrixed organization.
- Strategic foresight: The ability to partner with product and engineering leadership, connecting technical architecture decisions to business outcomes over multi-year horizons.
- 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
- Financial Health Programs
- Cybersecurity Protection
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Business Area:
Dow Jones - TechnologyJob Category:
Software Product EngineeringUnion Status:
Non-Union / A clear and likely internal candidateBase Pay Range: 220,000 - 270,000
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
- 15+ years of software engineering experience
- 7+ years in senior leadership roles
- Hands-on experience with machine learning pipelines at scale
- Experience with real-time data architectures at scale
- Deep understanding of ML infrastructure and backend technologies
- Experience integrating and deploying LLMs / Generative AI into products
- Proven ability to lead and scale cross-functional engineering teams
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
- Experience ensuring operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and meeting SLAs
- Knowledge of responsible AI practices (quality, fairness, explainability, compliance)
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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