Principal Product Designer, Risk & Compliance

The Principal Product Designer will set design strategy across multiple product areas and work directly with executive leadership to resolve strategic conflicts. This role involves identifying company-wide opportunities and establishing design practices that become industry benchmarks.

Responsibilities

• Set design strategy across multiple product areas and their platform connections, working directly with SLT, ELT, and C-suite executives to shape company direction.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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 track record working with C-level executives, presenting to boards, and influencing company-wide decisions through design leadership.
• Experience setting design strategy for multiple product areas simultaneously, with demonstrated ability to balance competing priorities and resolve strategic conflicts.
• Excellence in platform thinking, with a history of establishing patterns that become standards across major portions of an organization.
• Demonstrated thought leadership through speaking at major conferences, published articles, or industry recognition for design excellence.
• Track record of solving unprecedented challenges, creating new methods or frameworks when existing approaches don't suffice.
• Strong business acumen with ability to connect design decisions to multi-year business outcomes, speaking fluently about metrics, market dynamics, and competitive positioning.
• Experience building design capabilities at scale, including establishing operations, governance models, and talent development programs.
• Proven ability to navigate organizational complexity, working across business units, geographies, and cultures to drive alignment on strategic initiatives.
• Deep expertise across design disciplines, from visual design to systems thinking, with ability to coach others and set standards for excellence.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Design, HCI, or related field (advanced degree strongly preferred).

Key Skills

• Experience in media, publishing, or financial services at enterprise scale
• Background in design transformation or digital modernization initiatives
• Track record of M&A integration or product consolidation through design
• Experience establishing design organizations in global companies
• Published books, research, or significant thought leadership in design
• Board or advisory experience for design-forward companies
• Teaching experience at university level or executive education programs
• Patents or innovations in design methods or tools
• Experience with emerging technologies (AI/ML) at strategic level
• International business experience and cross-cultural design leadership

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plans
• Comprehensive Insurance Plans
• Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources
• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program