Senior Newsroom Data Analyst — Drive Editorial Impact

The Wall Street Journal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wall Street Journal seeks a Senior Data Analyst to join the newsroom data team in New York. You will own analyses, dashboards, and measurement frameworks, partnering with editorial, audience, and product teams to drive decisions that shape reporting and reader delivery.

This hands-on, high-autonomy role requires strong analytical craft, newsroom judgment, and mentoring of junior analysts as you raise the technical bar for the data team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in data analytics, data science, or a related field, preferably in media, publishing, or content.
• Track record of owning recurring reporting end-to-end and delivering analyses whose findings have shaped business decisions.
• Strong SQL skills, with experience in large-scale data warehouses like BigQuery or Snowflake, and analytics-engineering frameworks like dbt.
• Experience designing and running A/B tests, and applying statistical methods to interpret results.
• Proficiency in Python for analysis, data wrangling, and automating analytical workflows, with experience maintaining code in Git.
• Strong communication skills, with a track record of driving alignment and consensus across cross-functional groups.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted analytics partner to newsroom editorial and strategy leaders, driving audience growth, engagement and retention.
• Develop and maintain centralized dashboards and automated reports that expand self-serve access to newsroom data.
• Run deep-dive analyses on opportunities, major news events, high-priority moments, and unexplained shifts in performance.
• Push measurement forward by developing novel metrics and analytical frameworks that inform newsroom strategy and drive adoption across teams.
• Own and maintain the reporting stack, ensuring data accuracy and reliability, and strengthening taxonomies and datasets.
• Design and run A/B tests and experiments, applying statistical methods to interpret results and translate them into decisions.

Skills

SQL

Python

dbt

Git

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

dbt

Git

Job description

The Wall Street Journal seeks a Senior Data Analyst to join the newsroom data team in New York. You will own analyses, dashboards, and measurement frameworks, partnering with editorial, audience, and product teams to drive decisions that shape reporting and reader delivery.

This hands-on, high-autonomy role requires strong analytical craft, newsroom judgment, and mentoring of junior analysts as you raise the technical bar for the data team.