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: http://www.datlascolombia.com/#/?locale=en-col
One of our older sites, focusing on international trade data: http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/
Our head researcher, talking about our ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FeugaLv5Bo
A neat webgl project one of our interns did: http://globe.cid.harvard.edu/
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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: https://gist.github.com/makmanalp/bb7fb0cf50e3a44c2d1321a08e...
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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!
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: http://www.datlascolombia.com/#/?locale=en-col One of our older sites, focusing on international trade data: http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/ Our head researcher, talking about our ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FeugaLv5Bo A neat webgl project one of our interns did: http://globe.cid.harvard.edu/
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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: https://gist.github.com/makmanalp/bb7fb0cf50e3a44c2d1321a08e...
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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!