Licensing Partnership Manager

News Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 105,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Dow Jones is seeking a Licensing Partnerships Manager to lead content licensing relationships with international media partners, ensuring seamless integration and commercial optimization of Dow Jones products.

You will manage onboarding, renewals, and rights monitoring while coordinating with product, legal, finance, marketing, and sales teams across regional markets.

A minimum of 7+ years in media partnerships and negotiations is required, with AI-minded approach and willingness to travel.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with the media landscape and related tech
• AI evangelist mindset to improve workflows
• Proven experience in negotiations and relationship management
• 7+ years in partnerships/account management/content licensing in media
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Occasional travel may be required

Responsibilities

• Identify and prospect new publishers; negotiate and close deals
• Be primary contact for international media partners
• Own renewals and maintain high retention
• Oversee onboarding, payments, invoicing, and account setup
• Monitor rights usage within licensing terms
• Coordinate with product/legal/finance/marketing/sales
• Maintain accurate partner data in systems
• Drive content for Dow Jones B2B products and growth

Skills

Partnerships

Account management

Content licensing

Negotiations

Relationship management

AI evangelist

B2B licensing

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Summary of role:

When you join Dow Jones, you become part of one of the most dynamic, creative and savvy news and information companies in the world. As a global leader in news and business intelligence, we're newswires, websites, newspapers, apps, newsletters, databases, magazines, radio and television - including some of the widest‑read and most‑respected brands, like Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and MarketWatch. Our media inform the discussions and decisions that are vital to the world’s commerce, while our databases make the business world more transparent. We continually develop technology to transform information into insight and insight into prosperity. From 58 countries and in twenty‑five languages, we enlighten and inspire audiences with authoritative, differentiated and trusted content.

The Dow Jones Media Partnerships & Strategy team maintains relationships with publishers and licensors around the world, helping to power the B2B division of Dow Jones & Company. The Licensing Partnerships Manager is a key member of the Media Partnerships team, responsible for the day-to-day management and growth of Dow Jones’ content licensing relationships. In this role, you will act as the primary point of contact for a portfolio of media partners and content providers. Your goal is to ensure that content is effectively licensed, technically integrated, and commercially optimized into Dow Jones products. This role requires a blend of relationship management, attention to contractual detail, and the ability to coordinate technical onboarding processes. You are an ambassador for Dow Jones.

Role scope / Responsibilities

• First and foremost: Identifying new publishers (or expansion areas for existing publishers), prospecting them, pitching participation in Dow Jones’ offerings, negotiating and closing deals.
• Primary Point of Contact: Act as the face of Dow Jones for identified international media firms, ensuring their needs are met and the value of providing their content to Dow Jones is consistently demonstrated.
• Retention & Renewals: Own the renewal cycle for your assigned partner portfolio, ensuring high retention rates through regular check-ins and proactive problem-solving.
• Partner Onboarding: Execute the end-to-end onboarding process for new licensors, including payment setup, invoicing coordination, and initial account configuration.
• Rights Monitoring: Monitor partner usage to ensure content and data are being used strictly within the legal and commercial boundaries of the licensing agreement.
• Technical Coordination: Work with internal technical teams to facilitate the delivery of content via APIs or feeds, ensuring DJ can successfully ingest and display content and data.
• Systems Management: Maintain meticulous records in the required systems and rights-management systems, ensuring all partner data, contacts, and contract notes are up to date.
• Acquire new content to power our B2B products and ensure the value propositions for DJ solutions resonate with partners, focusing on growth while cultivating mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Exemplary relationship management skills, helping to retain and increase current partnerships, continuously keeping our partners up to date on Dow Jones and new opportunities to grow together.
• Partner cross functionally throughout our company, keeping all stakeholders updated from departments such as product, legal, finance, marketing, sales, and events.
• Drive relationships through partnering with relevant associations and having presence at local conferences/events (proactively sitting at the table with local media).
• Participate actively in the local Dow Jones office, developing teamwork and cooperation. A minimum of three days per week in your local office is required.

Must have requirements

• Have deep experience with, and understanding of the media landscape. A genuine interest in new technologies that serve these communities is also important for your success.
• Be an AI evangelist, able to insert the use of AI directly into daily workflow and work to constantly find efficiencies and improvements in your work.
• Proven experience in business negotiations and internal/external relationship management.
• 7+ years of experience in partnerships, account management, or content licensing within the media or information services industry.
• Bachelor’s degree level education preferred.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Preferred qualifications

• Additional language skills are preferred but not required - of particular interest are Spanish and French.

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Base Pay Range: 105,000.00 - 130,000.00

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.