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OVERVIEW
CR’s Data Visualization Designers create data-driven visual stories that make complex product testing results, safety investigations, and consumer reporting accessible and actionable. As a Senior User Experience Visual Designer on the team, you will translate complex datasets—including product performance testing, safety investigations, recalls, regulatory actions, market trends, and consumer research—into accessible charts, graphics, interactive experiences, and explanatory visuals that help consumers understand risks, compare products, and make confident decisions.
The Senior User Experience Visual Designer reports to the Associate Director, Brand Design and works collaboratively with our journalists, researchers, and testing experts to create visualizations, infographics, graphs, charts and other design elements that make CR’s content more engaging and insightful. In this position you will get to pitch concepts and explore new and tested visual techniques.
We’re looking for a designer that has the ability to design with the audience in mind, creating infographics that are intuitive and accessible, even to those unfamiliar with the topic. If you are interested in a position that demands a strong balance between technical knowledge and creative design skill, we’re looking forward to reviewing your resume and digital portfolio.
This is a remote position. It is not eligible for sponsorship or relocation assistance.
How You'll Make An Impact
The stories you will work on will champion consumers’ interests and change people’s lives. Specifically you will:
- Create visual designs such as charts, graphs, and interactives, for digital products, ensuring alignment with the overall UX strategy and user needs.
- Partner with the content team to understand upcoming stories and develop design approaches to enhance coverage. Pitch concepts aligned with brand voice and tone.
- Analyze, synthesize and interpret data to be translated into visual designs that facilitate the reader’s understanding and experience.
- Use design, imagery and data to deliver compelling visual storytelling, including charts, graphs and interactives, for digital products, ensuring alignment with the overall UX strategy and user needs.
- Collaborate with UX researchers to gather insights through user interviews, surveys, and usability testing, integrating findings into design decisions.
- Explore visual ways of telling stories by using a variety of techniques and approaches to create compelling narratives through design, such as audience interaction, layout, and structure.
- Design data visualizations and information graphics that include high-fidelity visual designs, typography, color schemes, iconography, and layout, ensuring brand consistency across all platforms.
- Prototype and develop interactives in HTML, CSS and JS.
- Implement interactive graphics in the content management system.
- Optimize presentation across platforms by ensuring that visual and interactive elements provide a consistent, engaging experience tailored to each platform’s unique characteristics.
- Update and refresh graphics when necessary.
- Stay informed about competitors and industry trends.
- May perform other duties as required.
ABOUT YOU
You’ll Be Highly Rated If:
- You have a degree. You’ll need a BS in design, computer science or a related discipline.
- You have the experience. We’re looking for someone with at least 7-years of professional design experience for an information-driven digital publication.
- You can code. Our team relies on your ability to translate accessible designs into code which displays well on desktop and mobile environments.
- You have a portfolio that demonstrates strong visual and graphic design skills, including data visualization and information graphics.
- You understand basic data analysis so that you can interpret raw data, extract key insights, and identify trends for visualization and can distill complex information into essential points.
- You are knowledgeable in design fundamentals and storytelling techniques, including color theory, typography, composition, and layout, to create visuals that are both attractive and easily understood and flow visually to guide the viewer’s understanding.
- You know the tools needed including d3 and JavaScript libraries, as well as SVG animation, interactivity design and programming, data acquisition, data cleaning and analysis, use of python or R, and chart design.
- You are a skilled collaborator and communicator. You partner well with cross-functional colleagues to convey the intended message.
- You are adaptable to feedback and can incorporate new information or changing project needs while maintaining quality visuals that meet brand guidelines, consistent style and tone.
You'll Be One of Our Top Picks If:
- You’ve designed for a consumer-focused organization.
FAIR PAY AND A JUST WORKPLACE
At Consumer Reports, we are committed to fair, transparent pay and we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation informed by location, as well as the candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. It is expected that most qualified candidates will fall near the middle of the posted salary range. We have three locations: Yonkers, NY, Washington, DC and Colchester, CT. We are registered to do business in and can only hire from the following states and federal district: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Washington, DC.
Salary ranges:
- NY/California: $137,819.17K-$145K annually
- DMV, Massachusetts: $130,928,22-$138K annually
- Colchester, CT and additional approved CR locations: $130,928.22K-$138K annually
Consumer Reports is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or lactation), gender identity and expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service or veteran status, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, disability, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Consumer Reports will provide you with any reasonable assistance or accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Computer Science, or a related discipline
- At least 7 years of professional design experience for information-driven digital publications
- Proficiency prototyping and developing interactive graphics in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Experience designing data visualizations and information graphics, with strong portfolio
- Experience with D3 and JavaScript visualization libraries, SVG animation and interactivity
- Familiarity with data acquisition, cleaning, and basic analysis (Python or R)
- Ability to implement interactive graphics in a content management system
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to incorporate feedback
What We Do
Consumer Reports was founded in 1936 at a time when consumers had very few options to gauge the value, quality, or authenticity of goods and services. Our investigative journalism, advocacy, and digital testing empower consumers, inform people’s purchasing decisions, influence businesses to improve the products and services they deliver, and strengthen norms, laws, and regulations through science, evidence, and data.
Why Work With Us
At Consumer Reports, we are passionate about what we do because we believe informed consumers are the most powerful change makers of all. We're building a workforce that reflects our society, celebrates a wide breadth of experiences, and embraces new ways of thinking. Our objective is simple: for all employees to feel a sense of belonging.
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