Head of Programming & Content

dowjones; New York (NY); On-site; USD 275,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Dow Jones is seeking a visionary Head of Programming / Head of Content to shape a new era of business video, anchored in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, and Investor’s Business Daily. You’ll build from ambiguity, running live and on‑demand formats, recruit and partner with top talent, and translate newsroom journalism into streaming‑native storytelling while preserving editorial rigor.

You’ll lead with a clear point of view on the future of digital video, balancing audience needs

Qualifications

• Proven track record building a show or digital video operation.
• Hands-on production experience: run a live show, cut clips, write rundowns.
• Strong editorial judgment for business and financial news.
• Experience with digital-native or streaming formats: YouTube, podcasts, vodcasts.
• Ability to move fast without cutting corners.

Responsibilities

• Shape editorial voice and programming across formats.
• Develop talent strategies including in-house journalists and creators.
• Bridge Dow Jones newsrooms to digitally native formats without losing editorial value.
• Develop new live and on-demand show formats from concept through pilot.
• Collaborate with distribution and commercial leads to align formats with audience and business.
• Work with technical leadership to integrate AI tools into editorial workflow.
• Collaborate with sponsorships to protect editorial integrity.

Skills

Showrunning

Editorial judgment

Digital video formats

Production experience

Speed & agility

Relationship building

Job description

Job Description:

Job Title: Head of Programming / Head of Content

Job Description:

Dow Jones is building something ambitious in video, rooted in the authority of The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, and Investor’s Business Daily, and designed for how audiences actually watch business news now. We're looking for an entrepreneurial content leader to help define it. Your instinct is to prove before you scale, but you're building toward scale from day one.

This is a builder's role for someone who enjoys creating structure from ambiguity. You are a multi-hyphenate: part showrunner, part talent scout, part strategist. You are fluent in both live and on-demand content and you understand the model looks more like the lean, host-driven, streaming-native operations redefining business news right now than anything that came before it. You're passionate about the Dow Jones brands, their transformation into video, and protecting the journalistic rigor that comes with them.

You will:

• Shape editorial voice and programming direction across formats.
• Develop talent strategies, which includes an expansive definition of talent, whether it’s breaking new talent, scoping the best in-house journalists and building internal reporter integrations, or partnering with creators.
• Serve as an editorial bridge between Dow Jones newsrooms, translating their journalism into formats built for digitally native streaming without losing what makes it valuable.
• Develop new live and on-demand show formats from concept through pilot, working directly with the distribution and commercial leads to make sure formats work for the audience and the business simultaneously.
• Have familiarity with YouTube and social performance metrics and modern audience behavior.
• Set and enforce editorial standards, even when moving fast.
• Work directly with technical leadership to integrate AI tools into editorial workflow.
• Collaborate with commercial leadership on sponsorship integration, ensuring commercial partnerships never compromise editorial integrity.

You have:

• A proven track record building something from scratch: a show, a format, a digital video operation.
• Deep hands-on production experience. You know how to run a live show, cut a clip, structure an interview, and write a rundown. You have done all of these things recently, not just managed people who do them.
• Strong editorial judgment on business and financial news. You understand what a Dow Jones audience needs to know before their first meeting of the day.
• Experience in digital-native or streaming-native formats: YouTube, podcast, vodcast, live streaming. You think in clips and completion rates.
• The ability to move fast without cutting corners.
• A builder's relationship with ambiguity. You do not need structure to exist before you can operate. You create it.
• Strong relationships in business journalism, financial media, and the creator world to open doors that a cold call cannot.
• A genuine point of view and conviction about the future of digital video: content, formats, distribution.

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Business Area: Dow Jones - Consumer

Job Category: Editorial/Journalism

Union Status: Non-Union role

Base Pay Range: 275,000 - 330,000

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.

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

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.