Design Engineer - Chart Visualization

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Do you love creating insightful, beautiful, and engaging data experiences?

Do you love evangelizing data viz approaches and best practices?

Do you want to design and engineer accessible data experiences and data visualization components?

Put those skills to work answering strategic questions for one of the world's most respected and innovative payments companies.

Join our fast-paced Data Experience team, within our Design Engineering & Analytics organization. You will work on Data Experience tools like the Visa Chart Components (VCC) library, and supporting Data Experience creators across Visa’s Global Design and Product organizations. The clean, intuitive, and beautiful data visualization components and data experiences you design and build will be used to explore and visually manipulate Visa’s unique global data assets.

Your work will empower users to discover and communicate insights with clarity, nuance, and ease. Incredible volumes of data will be at your fingertips to mold and refine into elegant visualizations utilizing traditional proven graphics (e.g., bar charts) as well as inventing novel graphics concepts, yet to be seen. You will be part of a fun, humble team, always learning, thirsty for feedback, and collaborating

Essential functions

• Develop innovative solutions for complex data visualization and insight communication challenges

• Collaborate with designers, developers, and product managers from Global Design and our partner Product teams, providing subject matter expertise on crafting beautiful, accessible, and innovative data experiences.

• Design, refine, and maintain data visualization components, patterns, and tooling for our VCC library, collaborating closely with engineers on the VCC team to identify opportunities for enhancements and for improving the designer and developer experience.

• Create and maintain guidelines and documentation, enabling product teams across Visa to understand and apply data visualization best practices.

• Partner with the accessibility team to establish and evangelize accessibility guidelines for data experiences, ensuring they meet WCAG and Visa’s Global Accessibility Requirements (VGAR).

• Support VCC’s user community of designers, business analysts, and engineers from Global Design and our partner Product teams, to help them leverage VCC to the fullest within their products.

• Assist with developing and delivering training on Data Visualization and Data Experience design

Relocation assistance is not provided for this role.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications:
• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD).

Preferred Qualifications:
• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Expertise in data visualization principles and techniques.
• Strong knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles for data visualization and data experience design.
• Expert-level proficiency in digital design software including Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience in creating and maintaining design systems or component libraries focused on Data Visualization.
• Demonstrated mastery of visual design skills, including layout, visual hierarchy, and typography.
• Strong working knowledge of information architecture, interaction design, and human centered design methods.
• Comfortable working at different levels of fidelity in your designs and switching between them.
• Detail oriented with a keen eye to spot single pixel deformities.
• Effectively convey your design decisions to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt techniques and processes to an ever-changing eco-system of design tooling, techniques and technologies.
• A strong interest in Generative AI and its applications in data experience design.
• Can demonstrate abilities through shareable (public facing) data visualization experiences.
• Technology we enjoy using and hope you do too: Figma, React, Angular, Stencil, Jest, Node, D3. And last but not least, Visa Chart Components. 

Bonus points for ...
• Working knowledge of WebGL
• Proficiency in BI Tools like Tableau or PowerBI
• Proficiency in statistical tools like R or Python’s data science tools
• Can demonstrate abilities through shareable (public facing) data visualization experiences

Additional Information

Work Authorization: Permanent Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment for this position. Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 117,600.00 to 166,150.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.