Director, Events and Experiential

Job Description:

The Dow Jones Events team is seeking a Director of Events and Experiential to help develop, drive, and deliver the next era of data-driven, news-led, ambitious live events, virtual broadcasts, and interactive experiences for global audiences, sponsor partners, and other diverse stakeholders.  Preceded by a legacy of more than one hundred years of journalistic excellence in print and digital publications and business resources (The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, and more), Dow Jones brings together world-leading data, media, membership and intelligence solutions to power the professional world.  Dow Jones continues to transform its products, services, and offerings to meet the moment and the evolving needs of the global business community.  To that end, we recognize that our hugely successful live events,, now more than ever, need to tell compelling stories in formats that engage and entertain, as much as inform. 

As a Director on our team, you will help shape and define the future of live events at Dow Jones. As such you will have expert level knowledge of live event production. You will be a self-starting, goal-oriented leader with a strong background in creative experiential concepts and technical event production, in broadcast and video solutions. You will exhibit and support our core values: collaboration, impact, trust, and excellence.  

You will drive measurable strategies for growth, data collection, quantitative and qualitative analysis, sponsor synergy, and creative engagement across our portfolio of live events. You will manage cross-functional vendor teams of technical production, and interactive design,  You will facilitate the distillation and distribution of key events performance metrics across our business units and assess existing plans to ensure business alignment and continued innovation.  Your role will research and evaluate trends in a competitive multidisciplinary media landscape and implement solutions to optimize and elevate Live Journalism offerings. 

You are a dynamic, self-starter with excellent communication skills, and a willingness to challenge convention, build relationships, and think critically and creatively about new event technologies and work processes: 

You Will:

• Manage projects, production timeline, costs, and quality control for rolodex of vetted, external production, platform, creative agency, and experiential vendors.

• Develop best practices for content hosting, interactive event technology solutions, virtual lead generation, and broadcast and hybrid presentation.

• Collaborate with the Innovation, Technology, News, Marketing, Events, Programming, Sales, and Sponsor teams to bring business initiatives to life -- on brand, on time, on budget.

• Serve as a resource and sounding board for junior and senior colleagues seeking to integrate technology into their workflow and offerings.  

• Propose new and/or unconventional ways of working and engaging, and improve and iterate upon these new ideas for different audiences, stakeholders, partners, and event goals.

• Proactively support business management with long-term planning initiatives.  

• Provide data-led assessments of existing processes and productions, offering detailed analysis and solution ideation for improvement. 

You Have:

• At least 12 years in event and experiential creative and technical production, with strong familiarity in video, broadcast, livestream, and/or digital media landscape.  

• Exemplary written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills

• Exceptional time management finesse with competing priorities, high expectations, and a fast-paced, geo-diverse, deadline-rich environment 

• Capability to move easily between generating big, creative ideas, and driving ongoing process improvement

• Experience working cross-functionally across multiple teams and disciplines

Our 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

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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 [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 - Luxury & Events

Job Category:

Marketing & Product Management

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: 135,000.00 - 150,000.00

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..