Information Designer at Pantheon Data in Washington, DC, USA

Job description

• A federal acquisition oversight office is standing up a portfolio management framework from scratch based on updated 2025 policy. We are building a team that will design how that organization decides which acquisition pathway a new investment should follow, how its investments get grouped and assessed, how governance decisions get made and by whom, and how the whole thing gets implemented and measured.
• You'll work alongside a senior acquisition portfolio lead. They bring the policy and domain judgment. You bring the ability to turn judgment into an artifact somebody uses.
• We're hiring someone who does the sense-making and the rendering - who can engage with unfamiliar policy substance, form a view about how a process actually works, and be wrong in front of a client and iterate. If your instinct on receiving a draft is to improve its typography, this isn't the role. If your instinct is to ask why step four exists, it is.
• You should be comfortable being the person who says "I don't think this diagram is right, because these two paths can't both be true."

Responsibilities

• Translate federal acquisition policy into process models, decision trees, and pathway logic that practitioners can apply to real investments.
• Design the taxonomy for grouping a portfolio of technology and non-technology investments by mission capability area - deciding what the categories are, what belongs in each, and how someone navigates the structure.
• Map governance processes as swimlanes: who participates, who decides, what moves between them, where the offramps are.
• Build an implementation roadmap that communicates sequence, dependency, and phasing at a glance.
• Facilitate and capture working sessions with government stakeholders, rendering discussion into draft structure fast enough to test it in the room.
• Produce executive-grade briefing material for senior government leadership.
• Support the inventory and classification of existing investments across the organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years designing information artifacts in a professional services, consulting, or government context
• Demonstrated process modeling
• Experience building taxonomies, classification schemes, or information architecture
• Senior-level Visio proficiency (the federal default and a working requirement here)
• Executive-grade PowerPoint
• Strong plain-language writing - these artifacts carry text, and you'll write it
• Ability to work onsite in Washington, DC occasionally
• High School Diploma
• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements. Ability to obtain Public Trust prior to hire and maintain during employment is required.
• Federal acquisition, program management, or governance exposure - DHS especially.
• Current or recent DHS suitability determination.
• Figma, Illustrator, or equivalent for higher-fidelity work.
• Facilitation experience with senior stakeholders.
• Familiarity with IT investment management or capital planning.
• Experience supporting DHS/USCG or any other federal agency.
• Technical leadership and mentorship with effective negotiation and coordination.
• Strategic infrastructure planning and clarity in complex documentation.
• Flexibility across varied stakeholder groups.
• Integrity in regulatory compliance.
• Conflict and risk management.
• Process optimization mindset.

Skills

Required

• Process modeling
• Taxonomy building
• Classification schemes
• Information architecture
• Visio (senior-level proficiency)
• PowerPoint (executive-grade)
• Plain-language writing

Preferred

• Federal acquisition knowledge
• Program management
• Governance exposure
• DHS suitability
• Figma
• Illustrator
• Facilitation
• IT investment management

Benefits

• We are always looking for good people! Pantheon Data is committed to providing its employees with competitive salaries and benefits in order to increase employee satisfaction and productivity. In addition to our benefits, we also offer SmartBenefits through the Washington Metro Area Transportation Authority, where you specify an amount of your pre-tax wages be paid directly to your SmarTrip account. In some cases, tuition assistance may be available for continuing education expenses and certifications related to their position. Additional details may be found at https://pantheon-data.com/careers/
• The salary range for this position is $70,000 - $90,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.