Information Designer-data Visualization

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 09
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**S&P Global Commodity Insights**:
**The Role**: Information Designer

**The Team**:
The Information Designer is an integral part of the CI Content Design Team, a Global Multidisciplinary team producing thousands of graphics a year across 100s of different publications and multi-channel platforms.
This is a key function in the Commodity Insights business. You will participate directly in visual story telling published through a variety of delivery channels and periodical publications.
As an integral part of the team, you will be challenged on a daily basis to use the full force of your creativity. Your work will have high visibility throughout the organization and to our customers in global commodity markets.

**The Impact**:
You will work closely with News reporters, data scientists, and analysts across our global offices. Your primary responsibility will be transforming complex data sets and quantitative and qualitative analysis into clear and compelling visual stories. You will collaborate with analysts to identify relevant stories and lead the design of data visualizations and other graphics to communicate insights.
Our information design function is essential to ensure that the Commodity Insights content is well understood and resonates with our target audience, which includes policymakers, regulators, professionals, investors, and key stakeholders in the commodities industry.

**What’s in for You**:
You are an Information Designer with passion for visual storytelling. You are a data visualization expert experienced in using code-based tools to analyze, clean and visualize data. You are comfortable with a variety of charts and graphic-building tools and can demonstrate a healthy portfolio of visual stories.

**Responsibilities**:
Proactively collaborate with content editors to shape complex information into dynamic visual storytelling pieces

Use technology, code, and online design tools to design and produce compelling data visualizations, infographics and maps (interactive and print)

Collaborate to execute data visualization work, including charts, graphs, tables, maps, and infographics to interpret news analysis.

Define project requirements, generate work plans, create and manage design templates, refine assets, and ensure clear communication to keep projects on track.

Support online communications including static data visualizations, interactive graphics, data research, publication layout, web development, and content management.

Conduct quality assurance and review to ensure accuracy, usability, and adherence to guidelines.

Time management and good time management are just as critical as a keen eye for design, data and software skills.

**What We’re Looking For**:
A strong affinity for numbers and quantitative data, with the ability to communicate design choices clearly.

Outstanding organizational, project management, and prioritization skills, with the ability to work flexibly and with a solutions-oriented approach to managing multiple deliverables on tight deadlines.

Team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships in a cross-cultural, global working environment.

Creative vision, a passion for learning, and the ability to stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in data visualization and design techniques, tools, and technologies.

**Required Skills**:
You have a bachelor’s degree in a relevant design field, such as information design, data journalism, or data visualization.

Intermediate proficiency in programming languages for data visualization such as Python, R, and JavaScript. Knowledge of HTML and CSS is desirable as it relates to delivering online data visualization.

Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Excel.

Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including graphics development, graphics production, and publication layout.

Intermediate to advanced proficiency in online data visualization tools like Flourish, Tableau, and Power BI.

You have experience working with content management systems.

About S&P Global Commodity Insights
At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value.
We’re a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.
S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotiv