WSJ Pro seeks a data editor

The Wall Street Journal is looking for an editor to lead efforts to create, source and integrate data into our professional products.

Data is an important element of WSJ Pro products, which serve financial and business professionals with news, analysis and data they can use at work. This editor will be responsible for bolstering existing datasets, identifying new data sets, then building or sourcing them and working to incorporate them into products to maximize their usefulness to customers.

The data editor will collaborate with bureau chiefs to spot and grow opportunities for data-driven journalism and projects. The person also will have prior experience in making such projects accessible to readers through creative data visualization strategies.

You will:

• Oversee all datasets related to WSJ Pro
• Work on ambitious new projects that are useful/relevant to professionals
• Engage with Pro coverage areas to enhance data journalism
• Be a strong communicator and a collaborative worker

You have:

• familiarity with corporate and financial data
• ability to juggle multiple projects and area detail-oriented and extremely well-organized
• experience working with complex datasets and develop use cases
• worked on data collection, extraction, mining and validation, and are familiar with machine learning and natural language processing
• knowledge of user design and data visualization

To apply, go here.