Overview

As a Principal Product Designer, you will define design strategy across multiple product areas and scale, directly partnering with executive leadership to align priorities. You’ll influence company direction, shape platform patterns, and set design standards used across Dow Jones. You’ll lead large, cross‑functional programs, mentor senior designers, and drive multi‑year impact. This is a high-visibility role that positions Dow Jones for industry leadership through thoughtful, user‑centered design at scale.

Compensaciones / Ventajas

- Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
- Paid Time Off (30 days a year)
- Retirement Plans
- Education Benefits
- Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
- Cybersecurity Protection

Responsabilidades

- Set design strategy across multiple product areas and platform connections with senior executives
- Lead company‑wide strategic projects requiring cross‑product alignment
- Identify and pursue organization‑wide opportunities shaping multi‑year planning
- Establish and share design methods, patterns, and tools to raise company‑wide practice
- Solve high‑ambiguity challenges with repeatable, standard approaches
- Shape platform evolution to create competitive value for users and executives
- Develop senior design talent and advise executives on design leadership
- Set quality standards and governance across products, markets and platforms




- Build external partnerships to enhance capabilities and grow Dow Jones’s design leadership
- Represent Dow Jones in industry events and publications

Requisitos principales

- 10+ years of product design experience with strategic impact at scale
- Portfolio showing impact on company direction and multi‑year value
- Experience influencing C‑level executives and boards through design leadership
- Experience setting design strategy for multiple product areas simultaneously
- Excellence in platform thinking and establishing reusable patterns
- Thought leadership through speaking, publications, or recognized design excellence
- Proven ability to solve unprecedented challenges with new methods or frameworks
- Strong business acumen linking design to multi‑year outcomes, metrics, and competition
- Experience building design capabilities at scale (governance, operations, talent development)
- Ability to navigate organizational complexity across geographies and units
- Deep expertise across design disciplines and ability to set standards for excellence
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Design, HCI, or related field

- Executive presence and influencing with senior leadership
- Cross‑functional collaboration and stakeholder management
- Mentoring and developing talent across teams
- Platform thinking
- Systems thinking and design governance
- Design leadership and strategic forecasting

📌 Principal Product Designer, Platforms - Dow Jones & Co. (Barcelona)
🏢 Dow Jones
📍 Barcelona