Hybrid Associate Information Designer

The opportunity

Are you a designer with a passion for data visualization?

As the Associate Information Designer, you will work with a multidisciplinary team to create dashboards, reports, and more for a broad range of audience groups across investment teams. Your key focus will be to visually communicate data to be clear, accurate, and visually impactful. If you are excited to develop your design skills to create effective and innovative data visualizations, this is the role for you!

Who You'll Work With

You’ll join the Data & Analytics team, which is a multidisciplinary group of data scientists, data analysts, software developers, and data visualization experts. In this team, you will work in a highly collaborative environment to deliver high quality data solutions. You’ll also meet and discuss designs directly with our internal business team clients (Capital Markets, Private Investment, and more).

What You'll Do

• Visual design and implementation for information design projects
• Design, implement, and deploy accurate, visually appealing, and informative data displays such as business intelligence dashboards and reporting products.
• Gather requirements from clients to draw business insights from data, explore and implement solutions, and present design options to clients for feedback and iteration.
• Review with management/team leaders on design recommendations before implementation.
• Clearly communicate design rationale and ideas to key team members and decision makers.
• Participate in data preparation and transformation for dashboard development.
• Apply both design and development best-practices to dashboard creation to ensure products are high-performance, easy to maintain, and communicate effectively.
  
  

• Data visualization training & community of practice in the organization
• Participate and share internal and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with business teams to train and elevate their data visualization skills and capability.
• Maintain and expand knowledge of data visualization, business intelligence, current technology, industry trends and best practices through coaching and training opportunities
  

What You'll Need

• Bachelor degree in related disciplines. Masters degree in data visualization or information communication considered an asset.
• 0-2 years of experience in data analytics, data visualization or information design.
• Developing experience in industry or an academic setting of data visualization, data storytelling and information design.
• Excellent knowledge and demonstrated competency in data visualization, data storytelling and information design best-practices.
• Strong foundation in applying user-centered design process.
• Strong visual/graphic design and UI/UX design skills.
• Hands-on Business Intelligence development experience with Power BI or other data visualization software platforms.
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud or equivalent is an asset.
• Canadian Securities Course or demonstrated equivalent experience is considered an asset.
• Proficient SQL skills in mining complex and multi-sourced data environment considered an asset.
• Working knowledge of databases, data modelling, and data processing,
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in articulating design and analytic solutions/ ideas effectively for collaboration with business and IT partners.
• Passion for story telling with data.
• Ability to quickly learn/adopt to new technology and approaches.
• Strong problem solving skills working in a team based environment.
• Achieve positive business outcomes in a dynamic and fast paced environment.
  
  

What We’re Offering

• Pay-for-performance environment that offers competitive salary and incentive
• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development
• Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage
• Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan
• The opportunity to invest back into the fund through our Deferred Incentive Program
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• Competitive time off
• Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year
• Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis
  
  

At Ontario Teachers', diversity is one of our core strengths. We take pride in ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create, reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience. Through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we celebrate diversity and foster inclusion through events for colleagues to connect for professional development, networking & mentoring. We are building an inclusive and equitable workplace where our talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, check out Life at Teachers'.

How To Apply

Are you ready to pursue new challenges and take your career to the next level? Apply today! You may be invited to complete a pre-recorded digital interview as part of your application.

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Functional Areas

Information Technology

Requisition ID

5743