Information Designer; Power Platform & Analytics

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.