LearnVest is redefining the American approach to personal finance. Our planners leverage financial technology to create simple, affordable, realistic plans for anyone who wants to feel confident about their money and optimistic about the future. 

Since launching in 2010, LearnVest has been one of the premier financial technology companies in the country, helping thousands of people make progress on their financial goals. LearnVest was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in 2015 and is now scaling its technology and personal finance approach to help millions of people across both the LearnVest and Northwestern Mutual brands. 

About the role:

Seeking talented individual to join a new start-up function to drive new insights & actions through data exploration, visualization, and data story-telling. You will work closely with data analysts, data scientists, and business experts to create beautiful and meaningful displays of complex information. The Visual Analytics & Expression team sits within the larger Enterprise Data & Analytics organization, and provides business insights across Northwestern Mutual.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create intuitive data visualizations to enhance cognitive understanding of the underlying data. Determine the best means of expression.
• Leverage consulting, business advisory, and strong business acumen to understand your audience, identify needs and opportunities for data visualization, and lead efforts from concept to final deliverable.
• Use design principles to explain complex statements and concepts, ensure consistency of analytic data products.
• Identify & suggest actions/responses to information presented.
• Design interfaces for exploring information to increase customer engagement.
• Perform data analysis and as appropriate, compose data driven stories, with narrative and annotation. Lead presentations as required.
• As appropriate, leverage advanced chart types: graphs/networks, maps, treemaps, etc.
• Work collaboratively with project teams, end users/stakeholders to understand business objectives & requirements.

Additional Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to tell a story with data – What does the analysis tell you? What do you think the business should do next? Why do you think what is happening, is happening?
• Demonstrated ability to influence others with the story of what you’re seeing in the data to make business recommendations
• Demonstrated ability and desire to lead projects start to finish, working with internal and external teams to make decisions and maintain momentum
• Excellent time and project management skills, with the ability to manage detail work and communicate project status effectively to all levels

Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience with a proven track record of leveraging analytics to drive significant business impact or to develop data/algorithm based products
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or quantitatively driven field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Econometrics, Data Visualization, Psychology, Political Science, Sociology or related field.
• General Statistical knowledge and intuition
• Experience collaborating with advanced analytics professionals.
• Ability to explain complex information in a simple way to a non technical audience.
• Experience in graphic design & solid grounding in design principles
• Experience in UX design a plus.
• Experience within the Financial Services industry a plus.
• Relational, no-SQL, and/or columnar data experience
• Experience with SQL
• Portfolio review on request
• Demonstrated experience in key data visualization & supporting analytics tools such as:
• JS/D3/HTML/CSS
• Interactive analytical platforms (e.g. Tableau)
• Data Analytics (R, Python)
• Spatial tools such as ArcGIS a plus
• Adobe Illustrator/In-Design a plus
• Interface Mockup (Balsamiq) a plus

Benefits:

• Fully stocked snacks, beer fridge, cold brew kegs, frequent catered lunches, company dodgeball team, and whiskey hours
• Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off
• Highly competitive compensation that include base salary plus bonus
• Medical/Dental/Vision plans, Matching 401(k), pension program