Audience Analyst

Dow Jones; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Dow Jones is seeking an Audience Analyst, Subscriptions Audience, to drive data-driven insights and growth for The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and MarketWatch. You’ll collaborate with product, engineering, and newsroom teams to optimize audience reach, engagement, and retention across consumer brands.

The role emphasizes experimentation, AI-assisted analysis, and dashboard-focused reporting to support subscription growth and strategic decision-making.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of professional experience in a subscription, marketing, or data-related role.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a quantitative field.

Responsibilities

• Experimentation Strategy & Measurement: define data requirements, metrics, and monitor experiments.
• AI-Driven Analysis: use AI/automation to streamline test results and manage projects.
• Database Optimization: document query optimization, migrate from BigQuery to Snowflake.
• Funnel & Performance Reporting: analyze acquisition funnels and build dashboards in Tableau.
• Audience Segmentation & Retention: analyze behavioral data and design targeted growth campaigns.

Skills

SQL

Snowflake

Tableau

Excel

Google Sheets

Data analysis

Presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

SQL

Snowflake

Tableau

Job description

NYC - 1211 Ave of the Americas

Full time

As an Audience Analyst, Subscriptions Audience at Dow Jones, you will play a pivotal role in understanding audience behavior, preferences, and trends with a focus on growing subscriptions through quality reach and scale across our consumer brands, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and MarketWatch. You will develop data-driven insights to inform content promotion, audience targeting, and engagement efforts within the Audience team in the greater Dow Jones consumer subscription organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Experimentation Strategy & Measurement: Partner with Product and Engineering to define data requirements, establish success metrics, and monitor experiment performance to optimize testing outcomes.
• AI-Driven Analysis: Incorporate AI and automation tools to streamline test result analysis, manage projects, and measure overall business impact.
• Database Optimization: Define and document query optimization best practices to ensure a smooth, standardized migration from BigQuery to Snowflake.
• Funnel & Performance Reporting: Analyze customer acquisition funnels to resolve friction points, gather reporting requirements, and build tracking dashboards in Tableau.
• Audience Segmentation & Retention: Analyze complex behavioral and demographic data to segment audiences, partnering with Newsroom and Subscription teams to design and track targeted growth campaigns.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of professional experience in a subscription, marketing, or data-related role.
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in a quantitative field (Business Analytics, Data Science, Social Sciences), or equivalent experience.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of SQL, Snowflake, and Tableau.
• Understanding of testing platforms such as Piano Composer and StatSig
• Strong skills in Excel, Google Sheets.
• Ability to deliver clear recommendations from data.
• Ability to summarize and present findings to non-technical stakeholders in clear and understandable manner.
• Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to data accuracy.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team.
• Passion for news and subscriptions, along with a curiosity about audience behavior

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. EEO/Disabled/Vets

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Business Area

Dow Jones - Marketing

Job Category

Data Analytics/Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Base Pay Range

$65,000 - $80,000

Compensation

We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.

Bonus Eligibility

For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

Benefits Eligibility

For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

About Dow Jones

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest newsgathering operations globally.

Publications and Products

It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance and Dow Jones Newswires. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).