Our higher education client is hiring a Lead Data Visualization Designer to join their team, full-time. This role is hybrid 3 days/week in their Scottsdale office.

This role requires skills in creative design, expertise in data, storytelling, business intelligence tools, and a strategic leadership mindset. 

What you will be doing:

• Work with a division of the university focused on the design and scalable delivery of digital teaching and learning models to increase student success and reduce barriers to achievement in higher education
• Responsible for transforming complex data sets into compelling, insightful, and aesthetically pleasing visualizations
• Working closely with data experts inside and outside of the department, unit leaders, and other
  stakeholders
• Gather and interpret business requirements, translating them into visual stories that drive decision-making and strategic insights.
• Transforms business requirements and complex data sets into compelling, insightful, and aesthetically pleasing visualizations that drive decision-making and strategic insights
• Creates beautiful and visually stunning data-driven stories to convey data to stakeholders in a way that facilitates understanding, thoughtful ideation of next steps and conveys impact
• Incorporates various styles of graphical elements and representations of data to simplify complex data sets
• Establishes and enforces design standards and practices across all projects to ensure consistency, usability, and a polished look, focusing on details such as fonts, titles, and layout
• Train, develop, and lead staff and student workers as needed

What you need to know: 

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, and five (5) or more years of experience in data visualization
• Knowledge of data visualization tools and technologies
• Knowledge of design principles such as layout, typography, color, and interaction design
• Knowledge of reporting tools to gather data (e.g., Tableau or other dashboards)
• Knowledge of visual journalism fostering a changed way of seeing through graphics, changing the way we seek out, consume, and understand data and ideas
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and key libraries, especially D3
• Fluent skills with Adobe tools such as Illustrator, Excel, and Photoshop
• Expert in Keynote and others to share and co-ideate on assets
• Expert skill with charting and other data visualization techniques
• Ability to transform data into compelling visuals
• Ability to work quickly and efficiently under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional ability to translate complex business requirements and data sets into simple, actionable insights through visual storytelling
• Ability to work effectively in a distributed team and communicate with internal stakeholders as an independent and strategic thinker
• Ability to lead by example in communicating, participating, and encouraging support of the institution's sustainability programs

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

This client offers total compensation package that includes valuable employee benefits. 
Healthcare
Financial Security
Retirement
Family Resources
Tuition Reduction (Eligible Employee, their dependents and spouse.)
Discounts

Looking forward to receiving your resume through our website and going over the position with you. Clicking apply is the best way to apply, but you may also:

Email your resume in Word to:

lauren.madden@jobalert.creativecircle.com
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Lauren Madden - Lead Recruiter

For this position, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa.



This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 01/31/2025 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.

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