Manager, Strategy & Business Operations

Dow Jones; New York (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

Paid Time Off

Retirement Plans

Education Benefits

Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

Employee Referral Program

Job summary

A prominent media company seeks a dynamic Chief of Staff to partner with the Chief Growth Officer. The role involves strategic planning, driving initiatives, and linking teams effectively across the organization. Candidates should have 5-7 years of experience with strong writing, communication, and structured thinking skills. This position offers substantial exposure to senior leadership with a competitive salary range of $125,000 - $155,000 and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years post-undergrad experience required.
• Exceptional writing and communication skills are essential.
• Strong structured thinking and ability to clarify chaos into clarity.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner to the CGO.
• Drive follow-through on top priorities across the consumer organization.
• Lead or support high-impact strategic projects.

Skills

Structured thinking

Writing and communication

Leadership

Strategic planning

Analytical skills

Education

5-7 years post-undergraduate experience

Job description

Job Description

About the Role

The Chief of Staff to the Chief Growth Officer & Global Head of Consumer is a force-multiplier role designed to accelerate execution, sharpen strategy, and ensure coherence across Dow Jones's global consumer businesses.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, communications, and leadership. You will help translate big ideas into executable plans, connect teams that don't naturally connect, and ensure the CGO is operating at maximum leverage — internally and externally.

This is not an administrative role. It is a career-accelerating position for someone who wants exposure to senior leadership, complex media businesses, and real P&L-adjacent decision-making.

You Will

Be the Strategic Partner to the CGO

• Act as a thought partner on consumer growth strategy across subscriptions, engagement, video, events, and new businesses
• Pressure-test ideas, structure ambiguous problems, and develop clear points of view for decision-making
• Help frame multi-year strategic narratives — not just quarterly plans

Function as the Operating & Execution Backbone

• Drive follow-through on top priorities across the consumer organization
• Track progress against key initiatives; surface risks early and propose solutions
• Coordinate across product, editorial, marketing, data, finance, and commercial teams to ensure alignment and momentum
• Prepare materials for operating reviews, ELT updates, and board-level discussions

Be the Connective Tissue Across the Consumer Group

• Serve as a central node connecting leaders across WSJ, Barron's, MarketWatch, IBD, video, events, and new ventures
• Help eliminate silos by clarifying ownership, timelines, and success metrics
• Translate between different "languages" — editorial, product, marketing, finance, tech

Craft Communications, Narrative & Speech Prep

• Draft and refine speeches, talking points, memos, and presentations for internal and external audiences
• Help shape the CGO's voice across town halls, leadership meetings, conferences, and media appearances
• Ensure consistency of message across strategy, execution, and culture

Lead Special Projects & New Bets

• Lead or support high-impact strategic projects (e.g., new consumer products, partnerships, acquisitions, pilots)
• Conduct market analysis, competitive assessments, and business case development
• Work closely with strategy, corporate development, and finance as needed

You Have

• 5-7 years post-undergrad experience
• Experience in media, technology, consumer, or subscriptions is a plus but not required
• Exceptionally strong structured thinker — can turn chaos into clarity
• Excellent writer and communicator (this role writes a lot)
• High judgment, low ego, and comfortable operating with senior leaders
• Comfortable moving between strategy and execution — slides one minute, details the next
• Naturally curious, intellectually rigorous, and commercially minded
• Able to operate with discretion and trust

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 [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.

Pay Range: $125,000 - $155,000. 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.