Overview

As a Principal Product Designer, you will set design strategy across multiple product areas at Dow Jones and partner with SLT, ELT, and the C-suite to shape company direction. You will influence executive leadership, resolve strategic conflicts, and establish design practices and standards that scale across platforms. Your work will focus on turning complex, ambiguous challenges into clear, strategic roadmaps with measurable business impact. This role offers visibility, cross-functional impact, and the chance to elevate Dow Jones as a design leader in a transformed, global organization.

Compensaciones / Incentivos

- Healthcare plans for you and family
- 30 days of holidays/year
- Remote work options (3 months/year or 1 week/quarter)
- Meal benefit with Pluxee
- Pension plan with employer contributions and match
- Well-being resources and allowances

Responsabilidades

- Set design strategy across multiple product areas and platform connections with executive leadership
- Present to and influence executive leadership to translate design into competitive advantage
- Lead company-wide strategic projects aligning products, platforms, and business units
- Identify company-wide opportunities informing multi-year strategic planning
- Establish design practices, frameworks, and tools that become industry benchmarks
- Solve highly ambiguous, precedent-setting challenges and develop new approaches
- Shape platform evolution across product areas to demonstrate value to users and executives




- Develop senior design talent across multiple product areas and advise executives on leadership
- Set and embody quality standards and governance across products, markets, and platforms
- Build external partnerships with agencies, vendors, and academic institutions to amplify capabilities

Requisitos principales

- 10+ years of product design experience setting strategy for complex, multi-product organizations
- Portfolio showing strategic impact at scale and measurable business value
- Proven track record with C-level executives and boards
- Experience balancing competing priorities and resolving strategic conflicts across multiple product areas
- Excellence in platform thinking with standard-setting patterns
- Thought leadership through speaking, publications, or industry recognition
- Ability to solve unprecedented challenges with new methods or frameworks
- Strong business acumen linking design decisions to multi-year outcomes
- Experience building design capabilities at scale including governance and talent development
- Cross-functional and cross-geography collaboration to drive alignment on initiatives
- Deep expertise across design disciplines and ability to coach others to high standards
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Design, HCI, or related field (advanced degree preferred)

- Executive influencing and communication
- Strategic thinking under ambiguity
- Mentoring and talent development
- Platform thinking
- Design systems and pattern libraries
- Systems thinking from visual design to product experience

📌 Principal Product Designer, Energy (Barcelona)
🏢 Dow Jones
📍 Barcelona