Data Visual Designer - 3-month Contract

At Horizontal Digital, we hold ourselves to one key belief: You’re only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra is what drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites, apps, portals, and other experiences that solve customer needs for Fortune 500 companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. And we make this lofty standard a reality by fusing strategy, data, design, and technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone.

We use these values to fuel superior results:

Lock arms
We forge relationships that make our impact 1,000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatest good.

Show hustle
We’re not ones to sit on our hands and wait. Instead, we anticipate opportunities, collectively roll up our sleeves, and find ways to execute the exceptional.

Embrace change
From new technologies to workplace philosophies, we welcome the unexpected and constantly anticipate what’s next.

Elevate empathy
We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability.

Never settle
We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger, more inspiring ideas.

But enough about us. Let’s talk about you.

Contract details

• Location: Dubai/remote
• Type: 3-month contract
• Seniority: Senior

Overview

We’re working at the intersection of product design and data. As organisations become increasingly data-driven, the ability to transform complexity into clarity is critical. We’re looking for a designer who can go beyond dashboards and reports to shape product experiences where data plays a central role.

As a Senior / Lead Product Designer with a focus on data visualisation, you’ll be responsible for creating intuitive, impactful, and elegant data-driven experiences. You will design dashboards, reports, and interactive products that help users see patterns, understand insights, and make decisions with confidence. Beyond data visualisation, you’ll contribute to product design more broadly — journeys, UI, and interaction patterns — ensuring data is embedded seamlessly into the overall user experience.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design with clarity: create compelling, user-friendly dashboards, reports, and interactive data experiences.
• Tell stories with data: Translate raw data and analysis into meaningful stories and visual narratives.
• Shape products end-to-end: Contribute to product design from research and flows through to polished high-fidelity design in Figma.
• Collaborate across disciplines: Work closely with product leads, analysts, developers, and stakeholders to align on needs and solutions.
• Build consistency: Develop and maintain design standards, templates, and components for data visualisation within our design system.
• Design for everyone: Ensure accessibility, accuracy, and performance in all data-driven designs.
• Push the craft forward: Bring fresh thinking from both product design and data visualisation trends to elevate the work.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven expertise: Experience as a Product Designer or Senior Designer with a strong emphasis on data visualisation.
• Strong portfolio: Work that demonstrates product design craft, especially in dashboards, data-driven UI, and digital products.
• Tool proficiency: Skilled in Figma, with experience in one or more visualisation tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
• Data literacy: Able to interpret, validate, and simplify complex datasets into clear user experiences.
• Interaction design know-how: Understanding principles for data exploration and decision-making.
• Great communicator: Excellent communication and storytelling skills for presenting to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor & guide: Ability to operate independently while also mentoring and guiding junior designers.

Why this role is unique

This isn’t a back-office reporting role. It’s an opportunity to shape how people see, feel, and act on information — turning numbers into narratives and insights into experiences. You’ll design not only dashboards but also broader product experiences where data takes centre stage, setting a new standard for clarity and impact.