Project Manager, Dow Jones Events Marketing

Job Description:

Role Overview

As the Project Manager for the Events Marketing Design Team, you will serve as the organizational backbone, ensuring that all design projects supporting Dow Jones’ exclusive events are delivered on time, within scope, and with exceptional quality. You’ll collaborate closely with designers, marketers, and production teams to streamline workflows, manage timelines, and optimize resources. Your expertise in project management will be key to transforming creative ideas into tangible, premium outputs that elevate the WSJ brand for a discerning, executive audience.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Management
Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and workflows for all event design initiatives, ensuring alignment with broader marketing and event strategies.

Manage multiple projects simultaneously, tracking progress, identifying risks, and proactively resolving bottlenecks to maintain momentum.

Collaborate with the design lead to translate creative concepts into actionable project roadmaps.

Team Coordination
Serve as the central point of contact between the design team and stakeholders, including marketing, editorial, and events teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment on goals.

Work with other design team Project Managers to manage creative resourcing. 

Facilitate regular check-ins, creative reviews, and status updates to keep all teams informed and aligned.

Coordinate with external vendors, contractors, and freelancers, managing their deliverables and timelines.

Resource & Budget Management
Allocate design resources effectively, balancing workload across the team to meet deadlines without compromising quality.

Track project budgets, ensuring costs are managed efficiently and align with financial constraints.

Provide recommendations for additional resources or tools needed to enhance team efficiency and output.

Quality Assurance & Delivery
Ensure all design deliverables meet the highest standards of quality, aligning with WSJ brand guidelines and audience expectations.

Conduct final checks on materials, verifying they are accurate, polished, and ready for production or deployment.

Process Optimization

Continuously evaluate and refine project management processes to improve efficiency and collaboration.

Implement tools and systems that enhance workflow transparency and accountability across teams.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Project Management, Business, or a related field.

Experience

• 7+ years of project management experience, preferably within a design, marketing, or events-focused environment.

Skills

• Proficient in project management tools such as Asana, Trello, Jira, or similar platforms.

• Strong organizational and time management skills, with a proven ability to prioritize tasks and meet tight deadlines.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, adept at collaborating across diverse teams and stakeholders.

• Familiarity with design and production workflows, including digital and environmental design processes.

• Understanding of design platforms such as Adobe Creative Cloud or Figma.

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 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 - CMO - Marketing

Job Category:

Project/Program Management

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $110,000 - $135,000

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..