Head of Programming & Content

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

Job summary

Dow Jones in New York is building a bold, scalable video operation anchored in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and Investor’s Business Daily. We seek an entrepreneurial Head of Programming to define voice, formats, and talent strategy for a fast-moving, audience-first future.

You will lead cross-functional teams, shape editorial standards, and partner with distribution, commercial, and tech leaders to blend journalism with streaming-native formats.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build shows or formats from scratch.
• Hands-on production expertise across live and on-demand formats.
• Strong editorial judgment for business and financial news.
• Experience with digital-native or streaming formats (YouTube, vodcast, podcasts).

Responsibilities

• Shape editorial voice across formats.
• Develop talent strategies across in-house journalists and creators.
• Translate newsroom journalism into digitally native formats.
• Develop new live and on-demand show formats from concept to pilot.
• Familiarity with YouTube and social performance metrics.
• Set and enforce editorial standards under fast pace.
• Integrate AI tools into editorial workflow with tech leadership.
• Collaborate with commercial leadership on sponsorships while preserving editorial integrity.

Skills

Editorial leadership

Live production

Digital video

YouTube platforms

Sponsorship integration

AI tooling integration

Job description

NYC - 1211 Ave of the Americas

Full time

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.

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

Reasonable Accommodation

We are 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 or participating in an interview due to a disability, email us at [e-mail]. 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.

Please refer to the privacy notice at the bottom of this page for submitting any data access, deletion, or other data subject rights requests, where permitted under your local laws and regulations.

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.

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.

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).