Experience Design Lead, Brand Marketing

New York City, NY (On-site)

$130K/yr – $160K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

UX and brand leadership across Dow Jones means turning business goals into audience-first design and guiding a small design team to ship cohesive UX, brand, and marketing experiences.

  • Growth through Design: align brand, UX and marketing strategy to improve customer journeys across acquisition, engagement, and retention.
  • Team & Systems: mentor designers, evolve design systems and brand standards, and drive hands-on UI work with Figma and the Creative Suite.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead UX / UI design and brand experience initiatives from within the Marketing org, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Synthesize complex business goals into clear, actionable design strategies that result in refined user experiences and interfaces.
  • Drive customer journey mapping and experience strategy across acquisition, engagement, and retention touchpoints for WSJ, WSJ+, and Dow Jones brands.
  • Collaborate and align with Subscription Strategy, Acquisition and Events teams to translate business goals into UX objectives and audience-centric experiences, and define design briefs.
  • Understand and define project architecture from vision to execution, draft project roadmaps to build coalition and guide progress.
  • Deliver hands-on design: wireframes, user flows, UI, and visual assets—ensuring brand consistency and design excellence.
  • Incorporate AI tools to enhance efficiency and speed, without compromising quality
  • With your team, oversee the brand experience across touchpoints — connecting the dots, identifying gaps, and implementing cross functional design solutions.
  • Bridge Brand and Design & Research teams to integrate brand design standards and visual identities into UX design systems, working toward building a single source universal design standards for digital surfaces .
  • Guide and design UI to meet standards for brand consistency and visual design excellence.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in UX and brand design
  • 4+ years in a lead or management role, directing cross functional teams on complex projects from concept through execution
  • Strong process orientation and systems thinking—able to balance long-term brand vision with near-term tactical execution
  • A passion for mentoring and developing design talent, especially in upskilling visual designers into well-rounded UI designers with strong UX foundations
  • Strong understanding of how brand, UX, and marketing intersect to shape customer experience
  • Proven ability to lead both strategic planning and design conversations and execute UX/UI design hands-on
  • Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design ability across brand-led initiatives with a focus on customer journey
  • Deep knowledge of UX best practices, content strategy and hierarchy, and strategic thinking
  • Hands-on experience with visual identity, wireframes, user flows, and prototyping
  • Experience maintaining or evolving design systems and brand standards
  • Refined visual and typographic sensibility with a dedication to craft, UI, and design excellence
  • Strong organizational and project management skills across concurrent initiatives in a matrixed environment
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management across marketing, brand, UX, and product teams — with the ability to effectively present to and influence stakeholders
  • Integration of AI tools in current workflows
  • Expertise in design tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
  • BA/BS in Design, UX, HCI, or related field preferred.

Preferred

  • BA/BS in Design, UX, HCI, or related field preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
  • Paid Time Off
  • Retirement Plans
  • Comprehensive Insurance Plans
  • Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources
  • Education Benefits
  • Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
  • Commuter Transit Program
  • Subscription Discounts
  • Employee Referral Program Learn more about all our US benefits
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Dow Jones

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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 news-gathering 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, Investor’s Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics.

Founded in 1987
New York, New York, USA
19K employees (4,018 in marketing)
68% recommend to a friend
61% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$10.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
11%
Direct
63.7%
Referral
24.5%
Social
0.4%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~19.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3,130 (16% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
3.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
10

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