Information Designer; Power Platform & Analytics

Location: Remote, Washington D.C. preferred

About the Opportunity:
LINK is seeking an Information Designer; Power Platform & Analytics to help clients transform complex priorities and fragmented data into clear, executive-ready dashboards, visualizations, and decision-support tools. The ideal candidate is both technically capable and strategically minded—able to build reporting solutions, connect and structure data sources, troubleshoot reporting challenges, and communicate insights clearly to stakeholders.

This role sits at the intersection of data analytics, visualization, Power Platform development, information design, and strategic communication; serving as a translator between business stakeholders and technical teams to help align reporting solutions with organizational priorities and user needs.

While this role requires comfort working with data sources and reporting structures, it is primarily focused on designing and delivering user-centered analytics experiences rather than building enterprise data infrastructure or back-end systems.

Responsibilities

Client Partnership & Requirements Development

• Partner with client stakeholders to understand project objectives, decision requirements, priority areas, data sources, and reporting needs.
• Translate senior-leader questions into project requirements, metrics, data fields, user stories, and visual concepts.
• Support working sessions, interviews, and review meetings to gather inputs and validate dashboard content.
• Help clients identify which metrics are meaningful, available, reliable, and suitable for executive reporting.
• Communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders about data limitations, dashboard assumptions, and recommended next steps.

Dashboard Development

• Build, refine, and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports that support executive-level decision-making.
• Design and develop interactive dashboards, reports, and analytics experiences that enable stakeholders to quickly understand performance, identify risks, and make informed decisions.
• Use Power Query and related tools to clean, transform, and connect data from Excel, SharePoint, semantic models, databases, and other available sources.
• Troubleshoot data access, refresh, permission, formatting, and usability issues in coordination with client technical teams as needed.
• Support migration of static reporting products, including PowerPoint-based dashboards or manual status reports, into more dynamic Power BI products.
• Support development of Power Platform solutions, including Power BI dashboards, Power Apps experiences, and related reporting tools, based on client needs.

Data Analysis & Quality Control

• Assess data maturity, source reliability, update cadence, and known limitations across dashboard inputs.
• Support practical approaches to data organization, governance, and sustainment that improve reporting quality and usability.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or risks in source data and recommend mitigation approaches.
• Conduct analysis to support trend identification, status reporting, risk assessment, and leadership decision-making.
• Ensure dashboard content is accurate, traceable, and aligned to client-approved data sources.
• Evaluate dashboard usability and user experience through stakeholder feedback and iterative refinement.

Strategic Communication & Information Design

• Work with LINK strategists and designers to ensure dashboards are visually clear, logically structured, and easy for senior leaders to use.
• Translate technical analysis into concise findings, executive summaries, talking points, and briefing materials.
• Apply information design principles to organize complex data into clear, decision-useful views.
• Support development of dashboard narratives that explain what the data shows, why it matters, and what decisions or actions may be required.
• Help ensure products meet LINK quality standards for clarity, accuracy, visual discipline, and client relevance.

Project Execution & Team Collaboration

• Work collaboratively with LINK project teams, including strategists, designers, program managers, and client-facing leads.
• Manage assigned dashboard tasks, development timelines, version control, and review cycles.
• Support iterative product development in a fast-paced remote environment with evolving requirements.
• Document assumptions, data sources, dashboard logic, and sustainment procedures.
• Help mature LINK's analytics and Power Platform capabilities by contributing reusable methods, templates, standards, and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data analytics, information systems, business, public policy, communications, engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience designing and delivering analytics, dashboard, reporting, or decision-support solutions for clients or organizations.
• Demonstrated experience developing dashboards, reports, and analytics products using Power BI.
• Experience using Power BI, Power Query, and related tools to connect, transform, and visualize data from multiple sources.
• Working knowledge of SQL, Excel, and structured data management.
• Experience translating stakeholder requirements into dashboard features, visualizations, reporting logic, and decision-support tools.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with stakeholders to define requirements, iterate solutions, and translate complex information into intuitive visual experiences.
• Experience designing analytics products with a focus on usability, stakeholder adoption, and decision support.
• Ability to synthesize complex technical, operational, financial, or programmatic information into clear insights for senior leaders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience supporting federal, defense, or national security clients preferred.
• Active Secret clearance preferred; ability to obtain or maintain a clearance may be required.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Power BI
• Power Query
• DAX
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• SharePoint and Microsoft ecosystem data integration
• Microsoft 365
• Basic SQL

Preferred Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate

Equivalent hands-on experience designing and delivering Power BI dashboards, analytics products, and client-facing decision-support solutions may substitute for certifications.

Work Schedule:

• Full time, 40 hours per week
• Occasional onsite presence may be required for client meetings, presentations, or working sessions. This could include local or national travel, depending on the locations of the employee and client.

Salary: We're committed to offering competitive compensation. While the salary range for this position is $71,000-$97,000, your final offer may be adjusted based on factors like experience and location.

Benefits:

• $100 monthly internet/cell phone stipend
• LINK sponsored healthcare benefits including medical, dental, vision
• Company-paid Short Term Disability Insurance
• 401K with employer contribution of up to 4%
• 11 Federal Holidays per year
• 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year
• Paid Holiday Time Off (Christmas Eve through the New Year)
• Annual bonus plan participation
• Annual profit sharing participation
• $2,000 Learning and Development program reimbursement
• Technology package that includes a LINK-owned MacBook Pro, monitor, mouse and keyboard

EOE