Sr. Analyst, Strategy & Operations

Dow Jones; New York (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Plans

Paid Time Off

Retirement Plans

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance

Job summary

Dow Jones seeks a Senior Analyst in NYC to drive operational performance, workflow optimization, and strategic alignment across the enterprise. As an early team member, you will help establish playbooks, frameworks, and service models from scratch.

This role focuses on diagnostics, process redesigns, metrics, and handoffs, coordinating with various teams to deliver tangible business value and enable automation and AI opportunities.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Business Analysis, Process Optimization, Strategy & Ops, or Management Consulting in a technology-adjacent environment.
• Demonstrated experience writing business requirements documents, process maps, user stories, or functional specifications.
• Exceptional facilitation and communication skills to drive cross-functional alignment, with enthusiasm for building a new team function from scratch.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and comfort working within SDLC or agile delivery frameworks.
• Experience with at least one AI or automation platform in a professional setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead structured working sessions, interviews, and observations to map current-state workflows, swimlanes, decision rights, and pain points across business units.
• Redesign end-to-end processes to remove bottlenecks, establish clear handoffs, and define explicit human-vs.-technology task allocation.
• Translate future-state designs into clear automation, technology, or AI recommendations; prepare handoff packages for Tech teams.
• Conduct root-cause analysis, identify operational risks, and establish process baselines to frame improvement opportunities.
• Audit existing platforms and prototype lightweight solutions—including experimenting with AI tools—to test feasibility and solve business problems.
• Help build and scale Process Mapping templates, playbooks, and self-service enablement resources across Dow Jones.

Skills

Business Analysis

Process Optimization

Strategy & Ops

Facilitation

Cross-functional Collaboration

AI/Automation awareness

Tools

Jira

AI Platforms

Job description

About The Team

The Global Business Operations Strategy & Operations team is a dynamic, newly established function driving organizational clarity, operational efficiency, and execution across Dow Jones. Operating as a high-impact Center of Excellence (COE), this new team combines strategic execution—such as OKRs, operating cadences, dashboards with process optimization. We map, redesign, and optimize end-to-end workflows to translate business pain points into strategic improvements, digital automation, and technology opportunities.

Location: NYC - 1211 Ave of the Americas

Full time

About The Role

The Senior Analyst sits within GBO Strategy & Operations and plays a key role in delivering operational performance, workflow optimization, and strategic alignment across the enterprise. As an early team member, you will have the unique chance to help establish our frameworks, playbooks, and service model from scratch.

This is fundamentally an analytical, diagnostic, and facilitation role—you will not be building technical systems directly, but you will own the process redesigns, operational diagnostics, metrics frameworks, and strategic handoffs that ensure initiatives deliver tangible business value.

In this role, you will operate across multiple intake channels: working directly on business unit operational requests, embedding within GBO PMO-led projects, supporting internal strategic planning and cadences, and partnering with Tech to translate future-state process designs into automation and AI blueprints.

You will report to the Director of Strategy & Operations and be based in our NYC office.

You Will

Process Optimization & Workflow Redesign

• Lead structured working sessions, interviews, and observations to map current-state workflows, swimlanes, decision rights, and pain points across business units.
• Redesign end-to-end processes to remove bottlenecks, eliminate friction, establish clear handoffs, and define explicit human-vs.-technology task allocation.
• Evaluate business pain points to translate future-state designs into clear automation, technology, or AI recommendations; prepare handoff packages for Tech teams with recommendations
• Conduct root-cause analysis, identify operational risks, and establish process baselines to frame improvement opportunities.
• Audit existing platforms and prototype lightweight solutions—including experimenting with AI tools—to test feasibility and solve business problems before recommending tech builds.
• Help build and scale Process Mapping templates, playbooks, and self-service enablement resources across Dow Jones.

Strategy & Operations Execution

• Embed metric frameworks, establish baselines and support the development of dashboard to track performance and ROI (e.g., time savings, cost reduction, quality thresholds).
• Support GBO program reporting, OKR tracking, and status dashboards to provide executive visibility into key initiatives.
• Own execution of the Innovation Pairing Program, including administration of communications, meetings, and operating cadences to keep the program running and embed a culture of continuous improvement across GBO key partners.
• Partner smoothly across Business Units, GBO PMO, Tech, and Organizational Development, and others to align process recommendations with broader strategic roadmaps, technical builds, and org design.
• Facilitate and execute core GBO operational rhythms, including executive deck creation, quarterly all-hands coordination, leadership offsite planning, and weekly status updates.

You Have

• 3+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Process Optimization, Strategy & Ops, or Management Consulting in a technology-adjacent environment.
• Demonstrated experience writing business requirements documents, process maps, user stories, or functional specifications.
• Exceptional facilitation and communication skills to drive cross-functional alignment, paired with enthusiasm for helping build a new team function from the ground up.
• Hands-on experience with project tracking tools such as Jira and comfort working within established SDLC or agile delivery frameworks.
• Experience with at least one AI or automation platform in a professional setting.

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

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

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Business Area: Dow Jones - Global Business Operations

Job Category: General Management

Union Status

Non-Union role

Base Pay Range: $75,000 - $95,000

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).