Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives

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About The Role

The Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives supports the development of new revenue-generating initiatives across WSJ as well as efforts to instill an integrated marketing strategy to the user funnel. This role works closely with the Director, WSJ Marketing & Subscription Strategy to shape business cases and ensure alignment across stakeholders as new strategic initiatives move from idea to reality.

You Will

• Support early-stage ideation and prioritization of new subscription verticals, product extensions, and marketplace concepts.
• Collaborate with Consumer Insights to gather and synthesize research that informs business opportunity assessment.
• Conduct light market scans, competitor analysis, and audience profiling to support decision-making.
• Help build initial business cases for new concepts, including audience sizing, value proposition framing, and KPI definition.
• Assist in coordinating pilot launches in partnership with Product, Editorial, and Marketing teams.
• Liaise with cross functional teams to ensure requirements are captured and deliverables are met.
• Help prepare materials for leadership presentations, roadmap reviews, and go/no-go decision points.
• Support cross-functional development and implementation of integrated marketing strategies in partnership with Manager, Go-to-Market
• Develop and maintain structured documentation for each initiative, including briefs, tracking templates, and recaps.
• Contribute to the development of playbooks and repeatable workflows for innovation testing and scaling.

You Have

• 10 years of experience in business strategy, product support, or consumer insights.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple workstreams.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally and communicating across disciplines.
• Analytical mindset with curiosity about new business models and product opportunities.
• Confident writer and presenter who can synthesize inputs into concise outputs.
• Experience in subscriptions, consumer media, or digital products a plus.

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plans
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Plans
• Education Benefits
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Family Care Benefits
• Commuter Transit Program
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program

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 [email protected]. 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 - Marketing

Job Category: Marketing & Product Management

Union Status

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $110,000 - $160,000

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..

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.

Req ID: 50060

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