Role Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Manager Data Visualization & Insight Design to lead the design, standardization, and adoption of enterprise-grade data visualization frameworks for global clients. This role is responsible for transforming complex data into clear, consistent, decision-ready insights for executives and business leaders.

You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders (CXOs, VPs, Directors), defining visualization standards, KPI frameworks, and insight consumption models that scale across business units. The role goes beyond dashboards-focusing on storytelling, governance, usability, and impact on decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

Client Leadership & Consulting:

- Lead client-facing visualization transformation programs across multiple accounts or large engagements

- Partner with business and analytics leaders to define enterprise KPI frameworks and insight hierarchies

- Act as a strategic advisor on how data should be consumed, interpreted, and acted upon

- Own executive communications including steering committee updates, insight readouts, and QBRs

- Identify opportunities to expand visualization initiatives into advanced analytics, self-service BI, and data products

Visualization Standards & Frameworks:

- Define and implement enterprise visualization standards (design systems, charting guidelines, color usage, layout principles)

- Establish metric definitions, KPI catalogs, and semantic consistency across dashboards

- Design role-based views for executives, managers, and operational users

- Create reusable dashboard templates and visualization components to drive scale and consistency

Insight Design & Storytelling:

- Lead the creation of executive-ready narratives that link data to business outcomes

- Apply principles of information design, cognitive load management, and visual perception

- Guide teams on crafting insight-led dashboards vs data-heavy reports

- Enable clients to shift from reporting culture to decision-support culture

Tools & Platforms:

Provide leadership across leading visualization platforms such as:

- Tableau

- Power BI

- Looker / Looker Studio

- Qlik

- Adobe Analytics Workspace / CJA Workspaces

- Define tool-agnostic visualization principles while tailoring execution to platform strengths

- Partner with data engineering teams to ensure semantic models and data layers support visualization standards

Governance & Adoption:

- Establish visualization governance models (intake, review, approval, lifecycle management)

- Define self-service BI guardrails to balance flexibility with consistency

- Drive adoption metrics (usage, decision impact, stakeholder satisfaction)

- Enable change management through training, playbooks, and center-of-excellence models

Team & Delivery Leadership:

- Lead and mentor visualization designers, BI developers, and analysts

- Review dashboards and reports for quality, accuracy, and storytelling effectiveness

- Set delivery standards and best practices across onshore-offshore teams

- Build reusable assets, accelerators, and visualization IP

Thought Leadership:

- Support pre-sales by shaping visualization-led proposals and client demos

- Develop POVs on standardized visualization, executive reporting, and insight maturity

- Contribute to blogs, whitepapers, and internal capability building

- Represent the firm in client workshops and executive visioning sessions

Required Skills & Experience:

Core Experience:

- 10+ years in BI, analytics, or data consulting, with deep focus on visualization

- Proven experience leading enterprise visualization standardization programs

- Strong client-facing background with senior stakeholder engagement

- Visualization & Design Expertise

- Deep understanding of data visualization best practices and anti-patterns

- Experience defining KPI frameworks and metric taxonomies

- Strong grasp of UX principles for analytics applications

- Ability to critique and improve visualizations for clarity, accuracy, and impact

Technical & Platform Knowledge:

- Hands-on leadership across one or more BI platforms (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, etc.)

- Familiarity with semantic layers, data models, and performance optimization

- Experience working with modern data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks)

Consulting & Communication Skills:

- Exceptional executive storytelling and presentation skills

- Ability to influence without authority in complex client environments

- Strong facilitation skills for executive workshops and design sessions

- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-changing programs

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience building Visualization Centers of Excellence (CoE)

- Exposure to design systems or design thinking methodologies

- Industry experience in BFSI, Retail, Healthcare, Media, or Technology

- Certifications in Tableau, Power BI, or related BI tools