Visual Information Designer, Yahoo Finance

About the role

We are seeking an Information Designer / Data Visualization Specialist (IC3) who thinks like an editor to join our close-knit design team. In this role, you will operate as an independent professional, transforming messy, complex economic and financial datasets into clear, accurate, and impactful information graphics. Reporting directly to the Creative Director, you will act as a critical bridge between data journalism and consumer visual design.

Responsibilities

• Data Visualization & Editorial Architecture: 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.
• Complex Narrative Translation: 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.
• Proactive Visual Journalism: 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.
• BREAKING NEWS PRODUCTION AUTOMATION: 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.
• SYSYTEMIC TEMPLATE GOVERNANCE: 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.
• AI-AUGMENTED INFORMATION PROCESSING: 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.
• PROGRAMMATICAL DESIGN SCALING: 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.
• CROSS-FUNCTIONAL ADVOCACY: 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Prominent 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 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.
• Prominent 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.

Pay

The compensation for this position ranges from $96,000.00 - $200,000.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.

Schedule

Our compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions.

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.