[Remote] Visual Information Designer, Yahoo Finance
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yahoo is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. The role of Visual Information Designer involves transforming complex economic and financial datasets into clear, impactful information graphics while collaborating with various teams to enhance storytelling through data visualization.
Responsibilities
- Concept, design, and render high-fidelity charts, diagrams, map modules, and complex explanatory information graphics for daily news articles, marquee features, special editorial projects, and high-volume subscriber newsletters
- Parse sophisticated financial and macroeconomic concepts—including earnings reports, inflationary prints, federal interest rate pivots, and structural market trend lines—translating them into clear, intuitive visual assets for a global general audience
- Collaborate directly with reporters, data analysts, and executive editors early in the investigative cycle, independently identifying and pitching strategic data visualization opportunities that deepen storytelling impact
- Support real-time market events and breaking news spikes by deploying automated chart frameworks and generative data tools to rapidly build, refine, and ship accurate, clearly sourced informational graphics at speed
- Architect, maintain, and expand an enterprise-level library of data visualization templates and standardized component patterns (e.g., inside Datawrapper, Flourish, or Figma) to optimize production speeds and secure visual branding uniformity across platforms
- Utilize generative AI tools and large language models to quickly digest, sort, and summarize raw unstructured data files or text heavy earnings charts before executing visual mappings
- Implement automated workflow scripting to replace repetitive layout versioning configurations, facilitating seamless translation of charts across distinct desktop, responsive mobile, and short-form social formats
- Present layout logic and structural design rationale in cross-functional standups, establishing and documenting best practices for data storytelling across editorial, social media, marketing, and product development units
Skills
- 3+ years of professional experience specializing in information design, data visualization, or editorial graphics within a digital newsroom, publishing platform, asset management firm, or media entity
- Verified portfolio demonstrating advanced execution across data visualization, informational graphics, explanatory layouts, and a firm command of typography, composition, color theory, and visual hierarchy
- Expert operational proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, paired with strong working knowledge of Photoshop and Figma
- Extensive experience manipulating and visualization-formatting enterprise datasets via digital visualization toolkits (e.g., Datawrapper, Flourish, RAWGraphs, or similar tools)
- Demonstrated experience incorporating AI-augmented design systems or intelligent data-parsing workflows into active professional production environments to accelerate prototyping or layout scaling
- Proven capability to operate independently under tight daily deadlines, demonstrating execution discipline and clear judgment during rapidly changing market events or breaking news cycles
- Strong communication and professional negotiation skills, with a proven track record of translating peer data queries into accurate, polished creative layouts
- Practical experience with advanced prompt engineering frameworks or AI script environments optimized to streamline high-volume visual variations or data ingestion routines
- Technical working knowledge of interactive front-end web technologies, including HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript data libraries (e.g., D3.js or Leaflet)
- Experience designing, modeling, or animating graphics and charts optimized for digital video production, social reels, or motion-based storytelling
- A strong professional focus on macroeconomic shifts, global banking mechanisms, and fintech trends
Benefits
- Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions
- Healthcare
- A great 401k
- Backup childcare
- Education stipends
- Flexible hybrid work options
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