User Experience Designer, Data Visualization

About the role

The Core UI design team within the R&D Foundation Division is seeking a UX Designer specializing in Data Visualization to help shape SAS’s graph experiences. This role focuses on designing intuitive, high-quality data visualizations that power analytics across SAS products.

Responsibilities

• Define and promote reusable UX patterns for graph components, partnering across teams to ensure consistent, high-quality adoption and alignment with design system standards
• Create data visualization experiences that support exploration, analysis, and insight generation
• Create intuitive, graphical interaction patterns for analytical workflows
• Communicate complex data concepts through clear, effective visuals
• Design and prototype 2D and 3D graph experiences, including spatial and advanced visual representations
• Contribute to the SAS Graph Library within the Filament Design System, helping define reusable visualization patterns, standards, and components
• Partner closely with other data visualization designers, engineering, and product teams to ensure high-quality implementation of graphing solutions
• Apply user research and feedback to refine visualization usability and effectiveness
• Collaborate with accessibility specialists to support inclusive and usable data visualization practices

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in UX, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Graphic Design, Information Science, Animation, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in UX design, product design, or data visualization design
• Strong foundation in data visualization principles (e.g., chart selection, visual encoding, data storytelling)
• Experience designing interactive analytical experiences for complex or data-rich applications
• Experience with 3D visualization and modeling tools or technologies (e.g., Blender, WebGL, Three.js, or similar)
• Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite)
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams on visualization implementation
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate complex data concepts into intuitive designs

Qualifications

• Online portfolio demonstrating data visualization work, including interactive or analytical experiences

Additional Competencies, Knowledge & Skills

• Decision Making: Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences.
• Quality Orientation: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how detailed; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time. In addition to the above, Quality Orientation involves accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time.
• Innovation: Creating novel solutions with measurable value for existing and potential customers (internal or external); experimenting with new ways to solve work problems and seize opportunities that result in unique and differentiated solutions.
• Collaborating: Working cooperatively with others to help a team or work group achieve its goals.
• Accessibility Awareness: Applying awareness of accessibility considerations in data visualization and partnering with specialists to support inclusive experiences.
• Leadership Potential: Ability to take ownership of visualization initiatives, contributing to design direction, and demonstrating initiative to grow into broader leadership responsibilities.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include: PPO with low annual deductible and copays. HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.