Data Editor, WSJ Pro

Job Description:

Data Editor for WSJ Pro

The Wall Street Journal is looking for an editor to lead efforts to create, source and integrate data into our professional products.

Data is an important element of WSJ Pro products, which serve financial and business professionals with news, analysis and data they can use at work. This editor will be responsible for bolstering existing datasets, identifying new data sets, then building or sourcing them and working to incorporate them into products to maximize their usefulness to customers.

The data editor will collaborate with bureau chiefs to spot and grow opportunities for data-driven journalism and projects. The person also will have prior experience in making such projects accessible to readers through creative data visualization strategies.

You will:

• Oversee all datasets related to WSJ Pro

• Work on ambitious new projects that are useful/relevant to professionals

• Engage with Pro coverage areas to enhance data journalism

• Be a strong communicator and a collaborative worker

You have:

• familiarity with corporate and financial data 

• ability to juggle multiple projects and area detail-oriented and extremely well-organized

• experience working with complex datasets and develop use cases

• worked on data collection, extraction, mining and validation, and are familiar with machine learning and natural language processing

• knowledge of user design and data visualization

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/AA/M/F/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 [email protected]. 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.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Data Analytics/Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $120,000 - $140,000

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..