Job Description:

About the Team:

The Trust, the award-winning custom content studio of The Wall Street Journal | Barron's Group, is a fast-growing team of energetic editors, writers, creative strategists, videographers, designers, photo editors and developers. The Trust produces content for clients in a variety of forms—from reported articles to immersive digital experiences to documentary videos, podcast series, data visualizations, animations and more.

About the Role

The Trust seeks a deeply experienced, creative, agile executive editor with deep knowledge of the financial services sector. This editor has covered finance for a number of years in the past, for a newsroom and/or a content studio, and can write about the topic at a level appropriate for financial advisors, ultra high net worth investors, or more generally for highly educated, successful WSJ readers concerned about financial planning for retirement, children's educations, etc. This editor would work closely with a creative team in developing and executing innovative and complex editorial packages. The ability to handle multiple projects at once and working with clients with aplomb is essential.

You Will:

• Work closely with writers, creative directors, integrated marketers, designers and developers to create innovative, captivating and informative custom content packages that achieve clients' objectives while also appealing to WSJ | Barron's Group readers.
• Direct end-to-end editorial process for assigned programs, from ideation to writing to editing to fact-checking to proofreading
• Present themselves with polish, professionalism and confidence in client-facing meetings
• Work collaboratively and seamlessly with in-house teams
• Manage projects to make sure content and integrated campaigns come in on time and on budget
• Analyze performance data and refine headlines and social media posts to achieve best possible results
• Manage both in-house and freelance writers

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree in journalism, marketing or a related field
• 10 years of editing/writing/reporting experience, in the area of finance
• Experience managing multifaceted projects
• Proven ability to come up with creative concepts
• 5+ years of client-facing experience

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 talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. 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 - Media Sales

Job Category:

Editorial/Journalism

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $170,000 - $210,000

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..