Senior Director of Engineering, Wealth & Investing at Dow Jones & Co. – New York, New York

Dow Jones & Co.

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world's top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

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Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. 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 talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put “Reasonable Accommodation in the subject line.

NYC - 1211 Ave of the Americas

Full time
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Job Description:
About the Role:

This is a high-leverage leadership role combining platform infrastructure that multiplies engineering effectiveness across the entire organization with ownership of our most engaged content verticals-Barron's, MarketWatch, Investors Business Daily, Financial News London, and Private Equity News.

As Senior Director of Engineering, you will lead our Wealth & Investing portfolio and Product Platform Engineering teams. In this unique opportunity, you'll own the platform teams that set standards and the product teams actively building with AI-driven development practices, giving you direct insight into what works and the ability to scale those practices across the organization. You will have 4-6 direct reports and oversee an organization of ~90 Engineers. You will report to VP Engineering, Products & Platforms.

About the Team:

Our 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.

Your Role Will Entail:

Strategic & Organizational Leadership

• Define long-term technical strategy and organizational structure for Product Platform and W&I engineering
• Drive company-wide technology messaging and represent the organization in external forums and executive discussions
• Shape long-term stakeholder alignment, ensuring technology strategy supports broader business goals
• Contribute to solving systemic, company-wide engineering challenges

Technology Consolidation & Modernization

• Lead the migration of all Wealth & Investing brands onto our latest technology stacks
• Define the consolidation strategy that enables shared investment and accelerated delivery across brands
• Ensure platform capabilities developed for W&I can be leveraged across all of engineering

AI-Driven Engineering Leadership

• Bring AI development tools and practices to the organization at scale
• Work directly with teams already using AI tools to understand what's effective
• Codify successful patterns into platform tooling and standards that benefit the entire engineering org

Talent Development & Team Building

• Lead a large-scale engineering organization focused on multiple domains
• Develop senior leaders (Directors, Senior Managers) through mentorship and coaching
• Define talent strategy, influencing hiring and succession planning across your organization
• Guide resource allocation to support business priorities and growth

Execution & Delivery

• Align technology investments with company-wide impact and business strategy
• Drive collaboration at an enterprise level, ensuring Technology is integrated into company-wide decisions
• Work consistently with abstract ideas and situations across functional areas
• Anticipate factors that could influence strategies and company position in the market

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Interact with internal and external executive-level management, requiring negotiation of critical matters
• Drive enterprise-level collaboration, breaking down silos between Platform, Product, and Brand teams
• Partner with Product and Design leadership on long-term planning and roadmap alignment

You Have:

Experience

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with progressive leadership responsibility
• Experience leading both platform/infrastructure and product engineering teams
• Track record of scaling engineering organizations and developing engineering managers into strong leaders
• Experience driving technology modernization and platform consolidation initiatives

Leadership & Talent Management

• Experience defining talent strategy and succession planning at scale
• Skill in navigating complex stakeholder relationships and negotiating at the executive level

Technical Depth

• Master-level technical proficiency-able to guide technical strategy and partner with Principal/Staff engineers on major decisions
• Experience with modern web and mobile platform architectures
• Understanding of AI/ML tooling and how it's transforming engineering workflows

Strategic Thinking

• Ability to define long-term technical strategy and organizational structure
• Experience anticipating technological and market shifts and shaping priorities accordingly
• Track record of driving innovation while balancing pragmatic delivery

Problem Solving

• Comfort working with abstract, ambiguous challenges across functional areas
• Experience solving difficult problems with enterprise-wide impact

Our Benefits

• 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

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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 talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. 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 - Technology

Job Category:
Software Product Engineering

Union Status:
Non-Union role

Pay Range: $220,000 - $270,000

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..

About_Us

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world's top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

If you are a current employee at Dow Jones, do not apply here. Please go to the Career section on your Workday homepage and view "Find Jobs - Dow Jones." Thank you.