UX Designer, Data Visualization - Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina
About the job
The Core UI design team within the R&D Foundation Division, is seeking a UX Designer specializing in Data Visualization to help shape SAS’s graph experiences. This role focuses on designing intuitive, high-quality data visualizations that power analytics across SAS products.
You will work on product-facing visualization experiences while contributing to the SAS Graph Library within the Filament Design System. Your work will influence how users explore data, gain insights, and make decisions through visual analytics.
This role also includes designing next-generation visualization capabilities, including 3D graphs and advanced interaction patterns. You will have opportunities to take ownership of key initiatives and help guide design direction within the Graphs space.
As a UX Designer, Data Visualization you will:
- Define and promote reusable UX patterns for graph components, partnering across teams to ensure consistent, high-quality adoption and alignment with design system standards
- Design data visualization experiences that support exploration, analysis, and insight generation
- Create intuitive, graphical interaction patterns for analytical workflows
- Communicate complex data concepts through clear, effective visuals
- Design and prototype 2D and 3D graph experiences, including spatial and advanced visual representations
- Contribute to the SAS Graph Library within the Filament Design System, helping define reusable visualization patterns, standards, and components
- Partner closely with other data visualization designers, engineering, and product teams to ensure high-quality implementation of graphing solutions
- Apply user research and feedback to refine visualization usability and effectiveness
- Collaborate with accessibility specialists to support inclusive and usable data visualization practices
- Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in UX, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Graphic Design, Information Science, Animation, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in UX design, product design, or data visualization design
- Strong foundation in data visualization principles (e.g., chart selection, visual encoding, data storytelling)
- Experience designing interactive analytical experiences for complex or data-rich applications
- Experience with 3D visualization and modeling tools or technologies (e.g., Blender, WebGL, Three.js, or similar)
- Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite)
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams on visualization implementation
- Strong communication skills and ability to translate complex data concepts into intuitive designs
- Online portfolio demonstrating data visualization work, including interactive or analytical experiences
- Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
Additional competencies, knowledge and skills
- Decision Making: Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences.
- Quality Orientation: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how detailed; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time.
- Innovation: Creating novel solutions with measurable value for existing and potential customers (internal or external); experimenting with new ways to solve work problems and seize opportunities that result in unique and differentiated solutions.
- Collaborating: Working cooperatively with others to help a team or work group achieve its goals.
- Accessibility Awareness: Applying awareness of accessibility considerations in data visualization and partnering with specialists to support inclusive experiences.
- Leadership Potential: Ability to take ownership of visualization initiatives, contributing to design direction, and demonstrating initiative to grow into broader leadership responsibilities.
World-class benefits
Highlights include...
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- Medical plan options include:
- PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
- Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
- An industry-leading 401k plan.
- Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
