Work At Graphicacy

Graphicacy is looking to expand its talented team. We’re self-starters who value collaborative and creative problem-solving skills, with the ambition to grow rapidly in responsibility.

We seek people with a range of skills in data visualization, including front-end engineering, UX/UI and information design, graphic design, motion graphic video, data analysis, business development, and more.

If you don’t see a position that fits but are interested in working with us full time, as a freelancer, or as an intern, send your resume to [email protected] and we’ll look for opportunities to work together.

Graphicacy, a mission driven data visualization, is recruiting an entrepreneurial Director of Data Visualization Engineering.

The ideal candidate for this role will be a leader with a passion for data visualization. They will have the technical competencies and leadership skills to match creative ideas with technical engineering and development solutions.They will be capable of both guiding our developers by setting technical and growth strategies, with a focus on innovative data visualization, while at the same time utilizing their own engineering skills to build and create cutting-edge interactives for Graphicacy’s clients.

We are a dynamic team that works fast — as such, we want to work with people who are forward-thinking, self-motivated and excited about new opportunities.

About the Role:

Lead by example by consistently pushing innovative solutions for a team of engineers; ensuring excellent and beautiful work that brings client visions to life.
Maintain a pulse on cutting-edge data visualization and engineering trends.
Take ownership of technical and development solutions to ensure delivery of superior products and solutions from technical discovery to production.
Help manage a wide range of overlapping projects, including setting budgets, schedules and milestones to meet client timelines and deliverables.
Recruit and retain a strong, diverse, entrepreneurial, and mission-driven team.
Work with Graphicacy’s leadership -team (Creative Director, Director of Operations and Head of Strategy) to build and maintain working relationships with existing clients and strive to expand the universe of Graphicacy’s business and client base.

About You:

Passion for, and experience and interest in data visualization, information graphics and familiarity with a range of full-stack technologies. Graphicacy manages a range of projects built on Angular, Vue, and React.
5-7 years of relevant data visualization experience, including but not limited to experience with visualizations and web-based interactives, geospatial, and/or visual story-telling.
Ability to weigh the pros and cons of technical solutions based on resource and time constraints to help clients understand what solutions are possible.
Thorough understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and experience in Agile, DevOps, or iterative SDLCs.
Experience managing and growing fast moving teams of full stack developers.
Experience working with AWS/Azure/Google Cloud.
Experience communicating with designers and handling designer assets.
Experience using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and other services to implement serverless and microservice architecture.
Bonus: Strong experience building web services
Experience in developing scripts and scripting languages.
A proven track record of innovating with an entrepreneurial business acumen.
A knack for partnering and collaboration with colleagues and team leaders to improve business processes, systems and overall business operationalization.
Strong strategic thinking, planning, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills.
Bonus: Strong experience building web services.
Bonus: You have experience with managing or leading teams in the federal government contracting space pertaining to data visualizations or analytics products and services.

We are looking for a smart, passionate person, and do not expect that every applicant has experience in everything we listed above. If you are interested in the role, but worried you don’t meet all our criteria, apply anyway. Demonstrate your creative thinking, problem solving skills, and ability to learn on the job, with projects in your portfolio, and in your cover letter.

About Us:

Graphicacy is a mission-driven data visualization and design studio in Washington, DC, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles.

Graphicacy partners with clients to tell engaging stories with data. Graphicacy’s team combines storytelling, thoughtful human-centered design and deep technical capabilities to build and deploy strategic, data-rich digital projects. Graphicacy’s team has created data visualizations and websites for top-tier organizations and companies, domestically and internationally, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the World Bank, the Center for American Progress, the Anti-Defamation League, and many others.

Graphicacy is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures, and we strongly encourage applicants from a wide array of backgrounds and communities to apply. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or medical condition.

Graphicacy Benefits:

This is a full-time position with a competitive salary commensurate with experience. Generous benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance, retirement matching, and equity in the company. We also offer our team flexible and liberal leave policies to ensure a healthy work-life balance.

To apply, send a resume and a cover letter to [email protected] with “Director of Data Visualization Engineering” in the subject line.

Graphicacy, a data visualization, design and interactive studio, is recruiting an experienced data visualization engineer to join our team.

The ideal candidate for this role will be passionate about innovative front-end solutions. They will be capable of engineering cutting-edge digital experiences for Graphicacy’s clients to continue to set Graphicacy apart as a leader in innovative and well designed digital products.

This position is for an engineer who has the ability to be as effective writing code as they are in talking to clients and collaborating with designers, project managers, and other engineers. They will possess a combination of programming skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) and aesthetic sensibility. Graphicacy creates unique products that solve data and interactive challenges in new and engaging ways, so we’re looking for someone who can see the whole project lifecycle and process, communicate effectively, and think creatively about how to build great products.

We are a dynamic team that works fast — as such, we want to work with people who are forward thinking, self-motivated and excited about new opportunities.

Our team is distributed throughout the US and this position is fully remote.

About the Role:

Craft innovative and performant engineering solutions:
- Work with Graphicacy’s clients to build beautiful and informative interactive and static data visualizations, online applications and information graphics.
- Play a key role in helping to turn client ideas into executable solutions considering their needs, design opportunities and limitations, and technical options.
- Collaborate with Graphicacy’s internal team of developers and designers to create feasible solutions to client visions and constraints.
Be an empathic technology guide:
- Help clients understand what’s possible and what’s best given their resources, technical skills and capacity, and long-term maintenance needs.
- Translate user and technical requirements into interactively designed interfaces for applications and /products.
- Facilitate and provide technical documentation or summary guides outlining various approaches to engineering solutions.
Help make Graphicacy better:
- Provide ongoing input on Graphicacy’s technology toolkit and approaches, helping us to build better things and to build things better.
- Efficiently troubleshoot and triage issues toward resolution on projects and software.
- Support existing software with quick troubleshooting and issue resolution.

About the You:

- You have 5-7 year’s experience as a software or data visualization engineer.
- Advanced knowledge or experience with modern SPA (Single Page Application) JS frameworks such as React, Angular, and/or Vue.
- Experience with D3, canvas, or other visualization libraries and tools.
- Passion for, and experience and interest in data visualization information graphics.
- Familiarity with a range of full-stack development technologies such as Python, NodeJS, and AWS/Google Cloud/Azure.
- Experience building map-based visualizations using Mapbox, Leaflet, OpenLayers, or comparable geospatial packages or applications.
- Ability to lead scoping and development conversations for technical and non-technical participants alike.
- Fluency in approaches to a wide variety of interactive products (data explorers, data dashboards, scrollytelling microsites, etc.), and the ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new ones.
- Experience in creating the most suitable front-end engineering methods and data models in alignment with designs.
- Fluent in both Javascript and Typescript.
- Experience participating and/or leading discovery processes to develop a deep understanding of client needs and goals and match those with technical solutions.
- Skilled at planning and implementing custom technical solutions from scratch.
- Strive to develop accessible code with comprehensive tests and thorough documentation.
- Experience mentoring and guiding other engineers to arrive at technical solutions.
- Bonus:
  - Experience with holistic engineering planning and strategy for client consultations and project builds that integrate and economize on back-end and front-end requirements such as data storage and ingestion, data processing, content management systems, and user authentications.
  - Experience using static site generators such as Gatsby and Next.js.
  - Experience with Three.js, React Three Fiber, or other WebGL libraries.
  - Knowledge of statistical analysis (SQL, R, Python or other statistical packages)
  - Experience with front-end animation libraries such as react-spring or GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP)

We are looking for a smart, passionate person, and do not expect that every applicant has experience in everything we listed above. If you are interested in the role, but worried you don’t meet all our criteria, apply anyway. Demonstrate your creative thinking, problem-solving skills, and ability to learn on the job, with projects in your portfolio, and in your cover letter.

About Us:

Graphicacy is a mission-driven data visualization and design studio in Washington, DC, with Brooklyn, and Los Angeles. This opportunity is a remote position.

Graphicacy Benefits:

This is a full-time, fully remote position with a competitive salary commensurate with experience. Generous benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance and retirement matching. We also offer our team flexible and liberal leave policies to ensure a healthy work-life balance.

To apply, send a resume and a cover letter to [email protected] with "Senior Data Visualization Engineer” in the subject line.

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