Information Designer

The Information Designer will organize, translate, and simplify qualitative and quantitative data and information into compelling visuals for board presentations and leadership materials. Visual design deliverables will include storytelling presentations, data visualizations, and other high-impact materials. The Information Designer will be responsible for applying brand-compliant information, graphic, and visualization design best practices.

The Information Designer will work with cross-functional teams and partner closely with operational, technical, and business teams to develop visual concepts that drive decision-making and the design process forward. The Information Designer will collaborate extensively with stakeholders across Aon.

Aon is in the business of better decisions

At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.

As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

What the day will look like: 

• Develop visual design deliverables in a range of formats, including storytelling presentations and data visualizations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to organize and simplify complex processes, challenges, data, and information into something partners can quickly grasp.
• Create high-impact presentations using PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator for board and leadership audiences.
• Use Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft tools.
• Work iteratively to arrive at project and design goals.
• Bridge multiple perspectives to communicate and rationalize design decisions effectively.
• Work independently and within various constraints to deliver within project timelines.
• Champion design thinking approaches across the organization.
• Analyze and present data through informative designs.
• Gather information based on a client’s design requirements.
• Research, brainstorm, and plan before creating a design.
• Create and implement designs using different design tools.
• Develop strategies that help meet client goals.
• Work alongside a team of designers.
• Deliver proofs to managers, editors, or clients.
• Participate in usability testing to ensure designs meet goals and objectives.
• Communicate information design strategies to the team.
• Answer questions from users or your team throughout the design process.

Education:

• You have a bachelor’s degree in a relevant design field, such as information design, data journalism, or data visualization.

Skills and experience that will lead to success: 

• Three (3) to Four (4) years of professional experience in information design, graphic design, or a related field, including experience journey mapping.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Adobe Illustrator for data visualization and graphics production.
• Skilled visual storyteller using PowerPoint.
• Relentless optimism and curiosity to uncover better ways within complex systems.
• Skill in deep listening, uncovering the often-unarticulated needs behind statements or assumptions.
• Ability to make low-fidelity prototypes in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or other tools.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Communication and social skills to build trust and rapport with project partners.

How we support our colleagues

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognise that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working!

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.

Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. 

Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status. 

We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard. If you would like to learn more about the reasonable accommodations we provide, email ReasonableAccommodations@Aon.com