The Wall Street Journal is Looking for New Talent Across Departments
The Wall Street Journal is growing in exciting ways. We lead in journalism, breaking more stories than our peers, and we lead in audience trust, consistently coming in as the number one trusted news outlet in the country.
We are increasingly leading in digital innovation and product experience as well. As the recent award for General Excellence that the Journal received from the Online News Association says:
The Wall Street Journal accelerated its digital experimentation this year with the creation of new tools, products and engagement experiments, while exploring new forms of storytelling and creating ground-breaking partnerships.
Few places are investing as much as the Journal is in growing great teams, so if you are intrigued, check out our jobs below:
Product, Design, Engineering
Looking for candidates who can see the big picture and move our technology forward. Join a team of talented engineers to invent tomorrow’s technology platform that will best expand our editorial and product offerings and enrich our user’s online experience. Dominique Boucher, Director of Engineering
We’re searching for engineers who care just as much about the products they build and the customers who use them as the code they write. We want you to contribute your best ideas for how we can evolve our products, tools and technology right alongside our talented team of designers, journalists and product managers. Mike Finkel, VP of Engineering
- Senior iOS Software Engineer
- Senior Web Software Engineer
- Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
- Senior Software Engineer
Newsroom Data Strategy
The WSJ Newsroom Data Team’s mission is to deliver new, innovative insights and products to empower our editors, reporters, and content creators. Using data science and engineering, our goal is to seamlessly connect the newsroom to rich understandings of our audience and how they connect with our stories. Ross Fadely, Chief of Data Science
New and Young Audiences
We are looking for candidates that will help us build experiences and interactions to attract, retain and engage young audiences. We will be launching a digital publication for 18–34 year-olds that reflects and centers the voices and experiences of a diverse, smart and overwhelmed generation, helping them explore and navigate the world. Ethar El-Katatney, Young Audiences Editor
The New Audiences team is working to grow audiences for the WSJ. Our first set of projects focuses on growing readership and engagement with professional women, people of color and increasing financial literacy in America. We will experiment with content, story format and mobile delivery as new tools are built that allow readers to experience journalism that helps them in addition to providing information. We have a strong eye toward strategy on and off platform and consumption habits of different groups. Ebony Reed, New Audiences Chief
- Newsroom Developer (New Audiences)
- Newsroom Developer (Young Audiences)
- Audience Interaction Producer (posting to come)
Innovation and R&D
The Innovation team will explore ideas submitted from across the newsroom to create quick prototypes that will shape our storytelling and products. The team will not only focus on technical projects but also foster a community where experimenting is encouraged and ad hoc collaborations happen — we’ll succeed as a team when we enable all teams in WSJ and DowJones to contribute to newsroom innovation. John Schimmel, Director of Engineering, Newsroom Innovation
The Journal’s R&D team develops emerging computational journalism approaches to empower the newsroom with AI-powered tools. All our projects are designed to align with the overall strategy of the newsroom, and cooperation with other journalists is, therefore, crucial and very much desired. Francesco Marconi, R&D Chief
- Senior Product Designer (Innovation)
- Newsroom Innovation Chief
- Newsroom Developer (Innovation)
- Machine Learning Engineer (R&D)
- Data Science Internship (R&D)
Audience Voices
The Audience Voices team is leading the way in engaging WSJ’s audience, fostering thoughtful conversations around our journalism and highlighting reader voices in our coverage.We’re looking for an audience interactive producer with experience with live video. In addition to daily moderation of conversations, this producer will be developing real-time audience interaction engagement and curate multimedia packages from reader experiences. Josh Rivera, Audience Voices and Community Editor
