Visual Information Designer, Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Holdings Inc.; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 96,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k)

Education stipends

Backup childcare

Job summary

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is looking for an Information Designer/Data Visualization Specialist in Baltimore, MD. In this role, you'll transform complex data into easily understandable visuals while collaborating closely with reporters and data analysts. The position demands proficiency in tools like Adobe Illustrator, Datawrapper, and Figma, and emphasizes AI-augmented workflows to enhance efficiency.

The compensation ranges from $96,000 to $200,000 yearly, depending on qualifications. Benefits include healthcare, a 401(k), and education stipends.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in information design or data visualization.
• Proficient in Adobe Illustrator; strong portfolio required.
• Experience working under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Design high-fidelity charts and information graphics.
• Collaborate with data analysts and reporters for insightful visuals.
• Utilize AI tools for rapid data processing and visualization.

Skills

Information design

Data visualization

Adobe Illustrator

Datawrapper

Figma

Education

3+ years of professional experience

Verified portfolio

Tools

Photoshop

HTML

CSS

JavaScript libraries

Job description

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.

You will work with minimal daily guidance to shape visual narratives across our web, mobile, social, and video platforms. To thrive in this fast-paced newsroom environment, you will actively incorporate AI-augmented data parsing and generative design workflows to speed up production turnaround times, eliminating transactional overhead while maintaining a meticulous standard of visual craft, clarity, and journalistic integrity.

What You’ll Do

• 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.
• Systemic 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.
• Programmatic 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.

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.
• Proven 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.

Compensation and Benefits

The compensation for this position ranges from $96,000.00 - $200,000.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as location, skills, and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401(k), backup childcare, education stipends and much more.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html ) or call +1.866.772.3182 . Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.