Senior Data Visualization Editor, McKinsey & Company

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Job Description:
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
You will be based in our Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, New York, or Washington DC office and you’ll be part of McKinsey Global Publishing — a team of editors, creatives, and content-operations experts — sitting on our data visualization team and reporting to McKinsey’s head of publishing design & visual storytelling. You will have a close working relationship to McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), a tight-knit global team, collaborating with researchers, editors, production, and communications leads. Together with the McKinsey global publishing team, you will ensure that the visual content and user experiences published by McKinsey are best in class, delivering highest value content in the most engaging way as part of our cohesive brand experience.

In your work with McKinsey Global Institute, you will collaborate with researchers, editors, production, and communications leads, as well as the wider MGI community to produce outstanding data visualizations and interactives. You will also work with our firm’s editorial team, design team and external agencies to create high-impact data visualizations across our digital communication channels.

MGI is the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Co. The Institute publishes a range of reports and articles. Its mission is to provide leaders in the commercial, public, and social sectors with the facts and insights on which to base management and policy decisions. Focus themes include productivity and growth, natural resources, human capital, globalization, and technologies and markets of the future.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
Working with the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), you will design and create engaging, informative, and accurate data visualizations for data-rich research reports, articles and social media that will be published across multiple platforms.

In this role, you’ll use your creativity and collaboration skills to partner with editors and researchers in developing content. You will leverage your eye for detail and visual storytelling skills to bring data to life and uphold McKinsey brand guidelines. You may also have opportunities to use illustration, animation, and coding skills.

Working closely with editors, you will take ownership and wrestle content into clear and concise data visualization exhibits. You will identify opportunities to elevate that content by recommending new data visualization methods, tools, and concepts.

You will balance multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring near-term and short-term deadlines are met. Lastly, you’ll develop optimized versions of exhibits for mobile and social assets.

Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in visual design, communications, or equivalent

  • 5+ years of data visualization experience

  • Experience with digital and print publishing; journalism background preferred

  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills

  • Ability to quickly grasp a complex brief and meet it with creative and on-brand ideas

  • Ability to quickly communicate via sketches, annotated visuals, and low-fidelity designs

  • Solid illustration skills

  • Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite of products

  • Knowledge of state-of-the-art techniques in dataviz, especially as it relates to web/digital interactives

  • Knowledge of professional tools and software including (but not limited to) interactive data viz platforms such as Flourish and Tableau, data management software such as Excel, and multiplatform design software such as Illustrator, Figma, and Ceros

  • Comfort level with dataviz-adjacent code including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a plus

  • Understanding of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

  • High comfort level working on data-rich business, finance, and economic topics

  • Can successfully navigate and thrive in a complex organization; ability to confidently and effectively engage with senior leaders and subject-matter experts; track record of achieving consensus and moving projects forward

  • Excellent problem solving and ability to implement sound judgment, knowing when to make independent decisions and when to collaborate; ability to assess situations, evaluate options, and make decisions

  • An entrepreneurial and collaborative attitude, with aptitude for working across tenures and role types and cultures; skilled at relationship building and influencing; able to effectively balance diplomacy with tenacity when working to gain alignment on goals

  • Exceptional organizational skills; ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously, manage complex processes, and meet both short- and long-term deadlines

  • Outstanding drive and process management, with a hands-on, action-oriented style

Type of Job: Senior Editor, Data Visualization

City: New York; Chicago; Washington, DC; Boston; Atlanta

State/Country: United States

Duration: Full-Time

Benefits: Full Benefits

Company: McKinsey & Company

About Our Company: https://www.mckinsey.com/

How to Apply: https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/seniordatavisualizationeditor-79174