Manager, Attack Readiness Insights (UI and Visualization)

Vanguard; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard in Charlotte, NC seeks a Manager of Attack Readiness Insights to lead the design, implementation and ongoing operation of Unified Security Posture metrics, visualizations, scorecards and dashboards. The role focuses on user-interface design, accessibility, usability, visualization quality and dashboard reliability from concept through production.

The individual will translate product direction into prototypes and production dashboards, work with Data Engineering to ensure data quality,

Qualifications

• Experience leading BI/visualization teams
• Strong UI/UX design sense and accessibility focus
• Ability to translate requirements into dashboards and data products

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of security metrics, scorecards, visualizations and dashboards.
• Apply UI/interaction-design best practices for clear navigation and intuitive drill paths.
• Establish reusable dashboard design system covering layout, typography, color, and accessibility.
• Translate complex security concepts into visual experiences for executives and teams.
• Lead usability reviews and incorporate feedback into iterative improvements.

Skills

Leadership

Data visualization

UI design

Stakeholder communication

Accessibility

Job description

The Manager of Attack Readiness Insights leads the design, implementation and ongoing operation of Unified Security Posture (USP) metrics, visualizations, scorecards and dashboards. The role is accountable for the reporting experience from approved concept through production delivery, with particular focus on user-interface design, interaction patterns, accessibility, usability, visualization quality and dashboard reliability.

This leader translates product direction and stakeholder requirements into visualization prototypes, production dashboards and measurable user outcomes. The Manager provides clear data requirements to Data Engineering, validates that delivered data products support the intended decisions and user interactions, and maintains transparent interim processes for approved manual data feeds until automated pipelines are available.

Core Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Capability Development

• Build, lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary team of business intelligence analysts and visualization or user-experience designers.
• Establish role clarity, delivery standards, quality reviews, workload management, career development and measurable objectives for the team.
• Develop team capability in data visualization, interaction design, information architecture, accessibility, user research, security metrics, data literacy, dashboard engineering and stakeholder communication.
• Create a culture of disciplined experimentation, constructive design critique, accountability, documentation and continuous improvement.
• Balance strategic roadmap delivery, production support, technical-debt reduction, user-research activities and interim-feed obligations through transparent capacity planning.

Insight Experience, UI and Visualization Leadership

• Lead design and implementation of security metrics, scorecards, visualizations and dashboards
• Apply user-interface and interaction-design best practices to create clear navigation, purposeful drill paths, consistent filtering, meaningful context and intuitive movement from enterprise posture to actionable detail.
• Establish and maintain a reusable dashboard design system covering layout, typography, color, hierarchy, interaction patterns, responsive behavior, accessibility, annotation, error states and data-quality messaging.
• Translate complex security and risk concepts into visual experiences appropriate for executives, risk leaders, security teams, application owners, remediation teams and developers.
• Ensure visual design supports interpretation and action without overstating precision, obscuring limitations or relying on decorative complexity.
• Lead usability reviews and incorporate qualitative and quantitative feedback into iterative improvements.

Requirements Translation and Prototyping

• Partner with the USP Product Owner during requirements-gathering sessions to clarify the target persona, decision supported, intended action, metric definition, priority, success criteria and acceptance expectations.
• Co-develop low- and high-fidelity prototypes that test information architecture, visual hierarchy, interactions and presentation alternatives before production implementation.
• Translate approved requirements into dashboard specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, test scenarios and traceable delivery plans for the Attack Readiness Insights team.
• Advise the Product Owner on visualization feasibility, usability tradeoffs, delivery dependencies and opportunities to reuse established experience patterns.
• Protect role clarity by supporting product discovery and prototyping while leaving product direction, roadmap and backlog priority with the Product Owner.

Data Requirements and Engineering Partnership

• Define and communicate visualization-consumption requirements to the USP Data Engineering Manager, including required fields, dimensions, measures, granularity, history, refresh cadence, filters, entitlements, latency, semantic definitions and performance expectations.
• Partner with Data Engineering to validate source-to-visualization traceability, dataset fitness, calculation consistency, reconciliation, lineage and handling of incomplete, stale or unavailable data.
• Use governed data products and semantic models whenever available; avoid embedding reusable transformation logic, source-system workarounds or conflicting metric definitions within dashboards.
• Participate in data-product design and acceptance to confirm that data outputs support approved user journeys, interactions and reporting outcomes.
• Maintain a shared dependency view for dashboard delivery, pipeline readiness, data quality, interim feeds, automation commitments and release sequencing.

Dashboard Engineering, Release and Operations

• Own configuration and implementation of production visualizations and dashboards using approved enterprise business-intelligence and reporting platforms.
• Establish development standards for source control, peer review, reusable components, environment promotion, au