Principal Product Designer, Energy

Principal Product Designer

About 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

We're seeking a Principal Product Designer to set design strategy across multiple product areas and shape how Dow Jones approaches design at scale. This is one of our most senior individual contributor roles, requiring someone who can work directly with executive leadership to resolve strategic conflicts and identify company-wide opportunities. As a Principal Product Designer, you'll have unique visibility across product areas and platforms, enabling you to spot patterns and opportunities that others miss. You'll work directly with SLT, ELT, and C-suite executives to shape company direction, while your design patterns become standards across major portions of Dow Jones. This role demands someone who can navigate extreme complexity, influence at the highest levels, and establish practices that become industry benchmarks. You'll be the design voice for challenges that lack precedent, developing senior talent across multiple product areas while representing Dow Jones at industry events. Your work will directly impact business metrics across multiple years, positioning our company ahead of industry transformations. The Principal Product Designer will report to a Sr. Manager, Director, Sr. Director, or VP within the Design & Research organization.

What You Will

Set design strategy across multiple product areas and their platform connections, working directly with SLT, ELT, and C-suite executives to shape company direction. You'll resolve conflicts between different strategic directions and help Dow Jones adapt to market changes through design leadership. Present to and influence executive leadership, demonstrating how thoughtfully designed products and platforms create competitive advantage. You'll synthesize competing executive concepts into unified direction and counsel leaders on decisions that reshape our entire portfolio. Lead company-wide strategic projects requiring alignment across all products, platforms, and business units. You'll partner with executives to remove organizational barriers and reshape how Dow Jones creates products at scale. Identify company-wide opportunities through your unique visibility across product areas and platforms, spotting patterns that inform multi-year strategic planning. You'll anticipate industry transformations and position Dow Jones ahead of change. Establish design practices that become industry benchmarks, developing new methods, frameworks, and tools that improve design practice company-wide. You'll share these approaches externally through speaking engagements and publications. Solve highly ambiguous, precedent-setting challenges by developing new approaches that become standard practice across the organization. You'll navigate extreme complexity to create clear strategies for executive decision-making. Shape platform evolution across multiple product areas, defining how platform designs create competitive advantage and enable capabilities that demonstrate real value to users and executives. Develop senior design talent across multiple product areas, mentoring Principal-level designers and advising executives on design leadership. You'll create talent pipelines and foster inclusion in high-stakes decisions. Set and embody quality standards that influence major portions of Dow Jones, establishing processes that maintain excellence across all products, markets, and platforms worldwide. Build external partnerships with agencies, vendors, and academic institutions that enhance our capabilities, while establishing Dow Jones's reputation as a design leader through industry presence.

What You Have

10+ years of product design experience, with significant time spent setting strategy for complex, multi-product organizations. A portfolio demonstrating strategic impact at scale, showing how you've shaped company direction, resolved conflicts between competing strategies, and delivered measurable business value across multiple years. Proven t