Sr Analyst, BI & Visualization

The Business Intelligence and Visualization team is responsible for empowering the organization through intuitive data products, scalable reporting, and user-centric analytics experiences. This individual will lead the creation of best-in-class dashboards and BI solutions that unlock faster decision-making, drive data literacy, and support enterprise-wide analytics initiatives. They will architect and deliver innovative, high-impact visualization solutions that advance USA Today Co.'s goals around data democratization, self-service, and actionable insight generation. This role blends design, engineering, and business strategy-requiring an eye for clean, intuitive UI/UX as well as the technical skills to build scalable, durable BI assets. You will partner cross-functionally with business stakeholders, data teams, and technology groups to define requirements, shape BI standards, and serve as a go-to expert in analytical storytelling and visualization best practices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver small to medium complex dashboard projects either individually or as part of a project team.

• Work with the business stakeholders in understanding their requirements and translate these into a technical design that enables efficient prototyping.

• Create innovative visualizations that follow design and development best practices and can deliver meaningful insights to the business.

• Use design wireframes and consultative best practices with our stakeholders.

• Collaborate with the data engineering team to troubleshoot issues with existing dashboards and take ownership to get them rectified.

• Develops data structures and pipelines to organize, collect, cleanse, and standardize data in order to generate insights and addresses reporting needs.

• Provide operational production support for the dashboards on Tableau Server.

• 5 years of relevant work experience focused on the arena of working with data/ and developing dashboards.

• Bachelor's Degree

• Strong communication/verbal skills

• Ability to effectively present information

• Has strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong understanding of data visualization methods

• Experience partnering well with cross-functional teams

• Possess the ability to work independently, self-navigate organizational and technical challenges

• You have 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA)

• The successful candidate will have at least 3 years of technical experience leading business intelligence or data visualization projects.

• A strong data visualization portfolio demonstrating how you design to solve customer needs

• You are well-versed in working with Tableau, including designing/building new dashboards.

• Experience leading design discovery meetings with end-users is preferred

• Excellent grasp of the design thinking and the prototyping process

• You have an understanding of data management systems and processes within the ecosystem (source systems, data feeds, reference data management, ETL, Data Warehouses and Datamarts, Google Analytics, etc.) and have experience working with SQL or Tableau Prep.

• Experience working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment is a plus

• Experience working with any prototyping tool, e.g., Figma, is a plus