Digital Production Editor

We’re looking for experienced Digital Production Editors to join our newly formed Digital Production Team in New York. This role merges rigorous copy-editing with strategic programming and audience development, requiring fluency in both disciplines from day one.

About the role

The Digital Production Team curates and publishes content across WSJ's digital platforms, provides editorial support to news editors, and shapes how our journalism reaches and engages readers on phone and web. You’ll move fluidly between copy-editing and digital programming, demonstrating strong initiative, a keen eye for detail, and enthusiasm for technical innovation.

This role is based in the New York newsroom, with a minimum of three days per week in the office. It includes at least one weekend shift and requires flexibility around evenings.

Responsibilities

• Edit copy to the highest standards of grammar, style, accuracy, and clarity—quickly, on deadline, and without a second pass
• Independently make packaging and presentation decisions across breaking news, features, and enterprise journalism with strong, confident news judgment
• Write headlines optimized for SEO and digital engagement, captions, sells, and push alerts that are sharp, on-brand, and audience-aware
• Execute daily programming decisions across WSJ platforms, including app and desktop homepages, push notifications, and email alerts, using audience data to inform curation in real time
• Apply a sophisticated knowledge of SEO principles across all relevant fields, tags, and headline structures
• Craft display text for off-platform distribution across channels including Google, social, and aggregators
• Apply metadata, in-house coding, and all technical publishing requirements correctly and consistently without reference
• Troubleshoot digital publishing issues as they arise, escalating when appropriate and resolving when possible
• Liaise with the London production hub to ensure seamless publishing continuity across time zones
• Collaborate directly with reporters, coverage editors, and audience, strategy, and social teams to execute audience-first publishing
• Uphold Dow Jones standards and ethics in every editorial decision

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in digital news editing, platform curation, or a role that required both copy editing and digital programming
• Demonstrable competency across copy editing and digital programming—this is not a role with a learning curve on core skills
• Track record of strong, independent news judgment under deadline pressure
• Expert-level proficiency with digital publishing tools, metadata, and newsroom workflows
• Deep, applied knowledge of SEO best practices and audience data platforms, with the ability to act on both in real time
• Experience curating digital homepages, app feeds, or equivalent native platform surfaces
• Fluency editing across media types: text, graphics, captions, push copy, and social
• Ability to work independently and as a team contributor with equal effectiveness
• Composure and flexibility in a fast-moving, high-stakes editorial environment

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet diverse needs.

Pay

Base pay range: $90,000 – $100,000. This range reflects our good-faith estimate and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on market benchmarks and individual contributions.