Center for Intl Development at Harvard | Product Manager, Data Visualization/Frontend Engineer | FULLTIME ONSITE Cambridge, MA (near Boston)
The Growth Lab (at the Center for International Development) is a research team that works to solve the issues of poverty in developing countries and focuses on the question, “Why do some countries grow while others don’t?” We are building a team of four/five people within the Growth Lab creating web based data visualization tools, largely funded by governments (past examples include Mexico, Colombia, Peru). We’re currently at one designer, one backend + data munger, one frontend engineer. We're aiming for one more mostly-frontend person who focuses on data viz, plus someone for a PM role - though we're trying to prevent everyone from getting too siloed, and trying to hire people who are T-shaped: specializing at one sort of thing, but curious about related areas. We work alongside a larger team of researchers with diverse backgrounds.
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One of the more recent sites we worked on: <a href="
One of our older sites, focusing on international trade data: <a href="
Our head researcher, talking about our ideas: <a href="
A neat webgl project one of our interns did: <a href="
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Regarding the frontend / data viz person: We're looking for folks who are comfortable with modern javascript / d3 and best practices, but also have a creative side. Previous work experience doing stuff like this and / or a portfolio with sample work is a huge huge bonus and the best predictor of success in our experience. The work would probably be a bit of data viz and a bit of general frontend development, but there are teammates to help with both.
Regarding the product manager role, see this gist: <a href="
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To get in touch, contact Andrea Hayes (andrea underscore hayes at hks dot harvard dot edu), preferably with stuff that you're proud of!