Director, Data Vizualization/Experience

Visa • Austin, CA

22h • Hybrid

About The Position

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. Do you love visualizing data and rapidly prototyping creative applications? Do you like working with modern design, front-end technologies and Generative AI? Do you want to lead a team in the design and engineering of accessible data experiences, data visualization components and patterns? Put those skills to work answering strategic questions for one of the world's most respected and innovative payments companies. The Director, Data Experience (DX) role will lead our fast-paced Data Experience team, within our Design Engineering & Analytics organization. In this role, you will set the strategy and execution roadmap of the DX team and foster broad support of the Global Design organization and our partners. In addition to owning and driving our data visualization component library Visa Chart Components (VCC), this role will manage the strategic direction of our DX Design, Engineering and Support functions. The Director, Data Experience will work with designers, product owners, and engineers from Global Design and our partner Product and Technology teams who leverage our design system and chart components within their products. Incredible volumes of data will be at your fingertips to mold and refine into elegant visualizations utilizing traditional proven graphics (e.g., bar charts) as well as inventing novel graphics concepts, yet to be seen. You will lead a fun, humble team, always learning, thirsty for feedback, and collaborating with others to deliver cohesive data visualization experiences. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Requirements

• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD
• In depth knowledge of data visualization design and designing for accessibility in your data experiences.
• Experience with leading, mentoring and fostering growth for a team of data visualization practitioners, or similar function.
• Ability to nurture strong cross functional relationships and influence with product and technology partners.
• Fluency in digital design software including Figma and FigJam.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt techniques, processes and tools to an ever-changing eco-system of design, engineering and Gen AI technologies.
• Ability to articulate your design and engineering decisions to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Detailed oriented with a keen eye to spot single pixel deformities.
• The know-how to move from pencil/paper to pixel/screen, and ultimately to code.

Nice To Haves

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or other technical/design relevant field.
• Curiosity and passion for Generative AI and its application within the data experience and visualization craft.
• Technology we enjoy using and hope you do to: Pencils, Markers, Crayons, Paper Balsamiq, Figma, FigJam React, Angular, Stencil, Jest Node D3 Generative AI And of course, Visa Chart Components

Responsibilities

• Set the strategy and execution roadmap of the DX team
• Foster broad support of the Global Design organization and our partners
• Owning and driving our data visualization component library Visa Chart Components (VCC)
• Manage the strategic direction of our DX Design, Engineering and Support functions
• Work with designers, product owners, and engineers from Global Design and our partner Product and Technology teams who leverage our design system and chart components within their products.
• Mold and refine incredible volumes of data into elegant visualizations utilizing traditional proven graphics (e.g., bar charts) as well as inventing novel graphics concepts, yet to be seen.
• Lead a fun, humble team, always learning, thirsty for feedback, and collaborating with others to deliver cohesive data visualization experiences.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees