Work At Graphicacy

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.

About the Role:

You’ll work across project and account management, supporting both internal teams and external client communications. This role blends sales and accounts management, client relationship development, operational coordination, and business development support. 

• Accounts Coordination:
  • Collaborate with Graphicacy’s leadership to identify and pursue new business opportunities.
  • Support outreach efforts—organize meetings, draft proposals and scopes of work, and prepare sales materials.
  • Track prospective client interactions through a CRM and manage the sales pipeline.
  • Assist in planning and coordinating creative presentations for current and potential clients for Graphicacy’s service offerings. 
• Project Coordination:
  • Assist our Senior Digital Project Manager in developing project plans, timelines, and materials.
  • Collaborate with the senior digital project manager to ensure milestones are met and communication is clear and consistent across all client touchpoints.
  • Maintain project briefs and plans to reflect the most up-to-date timelines, deliverables, and goals.
  • Ensure deliverables are accurately documented and accessible across internal systems.
  • Support the team in creating and updating tickets in Asana and reviewing support boards to verify that there are no outstanding client requests.
  • Help manage project close-out tasks, including post-mortem document creation, monthly support hour tracking, and file archiving.
  • Assist with scheduling meetings, coordinating calendars, and preparing weekly internal reports.

About You:

• You’re excited by the opportunity to grow within a dynamic and mission-driven company, and you’re curious to learn about all areas of the business—from design to data engineering to client strategy.
• You’re an organized, proactive self-starter with a passion for data visualization, digital storytelling, and purpose-driven work.
• You thrive in collaborative environments and are comfortable juggling multiple priorities with poise and professionalism.
• You bring strong communication skills and are confident engaging with both internal teams and external clients.
• You have an eye for detail.
• You’re eager to build your skills and take on new challenges, whether that means diving deeper into project coordination, client management, or exploring opportunities in data visualization design or engineering. 
• You’re adaptable, ask smart questions, and aren’t afraid to try new ideas.
• You’re experienced working remotely and know how to stay connected and productive in a distributed team environment.

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 Gates Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, the World Resources Institute, Everytown for Gun Safety, the World Bank, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health 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, fully remote position with a competitive salary in the range of $55,000–$75,000, commensurate with experience.

• We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Retirement plan with employer matching
  • Generous paid time off and sick leave
  • Flexible, people-first policies to support your personal well-being and work-life balance
  • A collaborative and values-driven team committed to helping you grow professionally across departments, whether you’re curious about project strategy, design, or engineering.

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.

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 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 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.

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.