Jobs at Financial Times

Lead end-to-end product design for editorial tools used by journalists and editors, including research, workflow mapping, information architecture, prototyping, testing, and delivery. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, newsroom teams, and customer product teams to create accessible solutions for complex content workflows. Explore AI-assisted tools that improve editorial quality and accuracy while communicating design decisions, technical constraints, and trade-offs.

Leads the architecture, orchestration, optimization, measurement, and experimentation of automated customer journeys across Consumer and B2B subscription businesses. Partners with lifecycle marketing, data, technology, creative, and automation teams to translate commercial and customer needs into scalable journeys. Owns the optimization roadmap, defines sequencing and personalization strategies, reviews implementation, coaches colleagues, and develops shared standards for testing, measurement, and journey design.

Leads global editorial communications strategy for the Financial Times, promoting journalism, editorial brands, products, initiatives, and talent. Advises senior editorial leaders on reputational issues, develops proactive media campaigns, manages global communications partnerships, and leads a small communications team. The role requires strong media expertise, strategic counsel, exceptional writing and communication skills, relationship-building ability, and experience managing communications professionals.

Creates persuasive marketing copy for B2B and B2C campaigns across advertising, digital, email, social media, podcasts, video, events, speeches, and long-form content. Collaborates with brand, creative, editorial, design, agencies, and business teams; manages briefs and deadlines; protects the Financial Times’ tone of voice; and reviews AI-generated copy for accuracy, originality, quality, and brand alignment.

Act as a financial journalist covering parental leave for the Financial Times’ Lex opinion column. Produce concise, analytical, deeply reported commentary on companies, markets, finance, M&A, and earnings. The role requires strong corporate reporting and accounting knowledge, numerical confidence, clear directional writing, intellectual agility, and the ability to develop and manage high-level sources. The columnist will contribute to Lex’s influential global audience and premium subscription strategy.

Own and advance the Financial Times mobile app roadmap, translating strategy into prioritized requirements and delivering premium iOS and Android experiences. Collaborate with engineering, design, data, and editorial teams across discovery, development, release, and iteration. Lead improvements in navigation, personalization, notifications, offline functionality, subscriptions, and cross-device continuity. Use customer research, analytics, experimentation, and feedback to measure outcomes while building mobile product expertise and best practices across the organization.

Senior Product Designer responsible for evolving the FT’s Origami design system across web and mobile. The role includes creating reusable components, foundations, documentation, prototypes, and accessible experiences; collaborating with designers, engineers, and product managers; supporting system adoption; and exploring AI-assisted workflows for component development, documentation, and prototyping.

Edit and commission high-impact corporate news and analysis for the Companies desk. Responsibilities include shaping stories, maintaining a pipeline of scoops, coordinating with international and specialist desks, optimizing headlines and graphics, supporting data and long-form projects, and managing legally sensitive copy under tight deadlines. The role includes weekend and early-morning shifts and requires onsite work in London at least three days per week.

Leads an engineering team responsible for the FT’s Marketing and Commercial Data capabilities. Owns delivery planning, capacity, prioritization, operational readiness, platform evolution, risk management, and stakeholder collaboration. Develops engineers, builds team capability, supports technical decisions, and guides migration from legacy marketing platforms toward Salesforce-based capabilities. Ensures systems are secure, resilient, scalable, observable, supportable, and aligned with long-term commercial technology strategy.

Develop and deliver B2C retention and customer value programmes covering cancel-save, winback, renewals, upsell, and cross-sell. Use customer and commercial insight, testing, reporting, and optimisation to reduce cancellations, increase resubscriptions, and grow ARPU. The role manages programme roadmaps, customer communications, operational partners, compliance, and cross-functional relationships across marketing, analytics, technology, pricing, and customer care teams.

Supports the Financial Times and Nikkei corporate development and investments team across acquisition and investment sourcing, M&A transactions, venture investments, disposals, valuation modeling, due diligence, negotiations, portfolio reviews, thematic research, and board documentation. The role leads financial and strategic analysis, manages investment proposals, mentors junior colleagues, and works closely with senior leadership.

Establishes and leads the Integration Services capability across Internal Products. Owns enterprise integration strategy, shared engineering services, platform standards, quality engineering, operational reliability, transformation-programme leadership, vendor relationships, delivery planning, and team development. The role defines reusable integration patterns, improves interoperability and automation, coordinates architecture across domains, manages incidents and operational performance, and builds a high-performing team of senior engineers.

Develop and deliver multi-channel audience acquisition, lead-generation, nurture, and engagement campaigns for issuer and investor communities. Manage marketing across the event lifecycle, including webinars, content, digital campaigns, and partnerships. Use CRM, campaign, and audience data to segment audiences, optimize performance, grow qualified leads, increase event participation, and support commercial revenue while ensuring GDPR compliance.

Provides technical leadership for the Marketing and Commercial Data engineering capability. The role owns technical direction, architecture, engineering standards, platform evolution, operational health, technical risk, and cross-team dependencies. It guides migration toward Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next and Data 360 while maintaining existing platforms. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, supporting complex technical decisions and incidents, partnering with product and business stakeholders, and ensuring secure, resilient, scalable, maintainable systems.

Leads the ERP Services engineering team and owns the operation, reliability, security, integrations, and continuous evolution of Oracle Fusion and related enterprise platforms. Provides technical and people leadership, develops team capability, plans engineering resources, manages technical debt and operational risk, oversees vendors, and translates Finance and Product priorities into sustainable engineering outcomes. The role also drives platform modernization, observability, resilience, lifecycle management, and cross-team architecture decisions.

Develop and maintain enterprise technology strategy, target-state architecture, roadmaps, governance, and investment priorities. Provide strategic direction across platforms, products, data, and technology domains while simplifying and modernizing the technology estate. Advise the CTO and senior leadership, oversee architectural risks and dependencies, guide build-versus-buy and lifecycle decisions, and align technology investments with business priorities through cross-functional influence.

Reports on Central European asset owners, especially German-speaking organizations, by researching investment mandates, appointments, allocations and governance developments. Builds senior industry relationships, identifies exclusive stories, writes news and features, maintains a proprietary database, and produces multimedia content including interviews, podcasts and webinars. Represents MandateWire at conferences and collaborates with the European editorial team.

Lead engineering strategy and technical direction across Corporate Technology platforms supporting People, Finance, and Procurement. Establish standards, ownership, operating models, and roadmaps for enterprise platforms, integrations, data flows, and internal tools. Oversee security, reliability, resilience, compliance, technology risk, and modernization. Mentor Engineering Leads and senior engineers, guide transformation programs, manage vendor relationships, and influence senior business and technology stakeholders.

Owns B2B lifecycle marketing programmes focused on renewals, retention, cross-sell, upsell and customer lifetime value. Develops quarterly plans, segmentation, personalisation, campaign briefs, KPIs and testing roadmaps. Uses customer and performance insights to optimise journeys, improve commercial outcomes and guide strategic recommendations. Partners with B2B Marketing, Sales, Data & Analytics and Marketing Automation, while contributing to lifecycle frameworks, governance and capability development.

Drive new-business growth across French-speaking markets by developing regional sales plans, prospecting, managing full sales cycles, negotiating contracts, and building senior stakeholder relationships. Lead and coach a Sales Development Representative, collaborate with Marketing and Customer Success, maintain Salesforce records and forecasts, and contribute to product, pricing, and process improvements.