Top 15 sites to find and hire Data Visualization Designers
1. Toptal
2. Upwork
Among the many freelance marketplaces, Upwork is a platform that offers businesses various useful features such as unlimited proposals, work history of remote data visualization designers, history verification, their work reviews, built-in collaboration tool, and more. To hire data visualization designers, you could browse Upwork’s massive marketplace or post a job and wait for designers to apply. You could even reach out to the Upwork team to help you find a good fit. Unlike Toptal, they don’t offer personalized services but they offer a good database to get started.
3. 99designs
As a platform, 99Designs is specifically for designers so it’s a good place to find and hire data visualization designers for your project. You also have the option to run contests with fixed-priced packages and then pick your favorite design from all the entries you receive. You can find designers with varied skillsets and filter them by different categories, their experience level, recent activity, and specific search terms such as “data visualization designers”. The platform charges a minimal fee for its service.
4. DesignCrowd
DesignCrowd is another great remote design marketplace where you can host contests or search from their existing database to hire data visualization designers. The platform offers hundreds of thousands of talented designers who can help you present your data in an attractive manner. Getting started on the platform is easy. You set project packages with a budget starting from at least $99 and a turnaround time for as little as three days. If you do not like the output, DesignCrowd also offers a money-back guarantee that you can use.
5. DesignHill
Designhill is another great freelance marketplace option that offers affordable services. To get started here, you have the option to create a contest by including a brief, prize, and duration. Then wait for entries to come in from talented designers across borders. You can pick the one you like from all the entries and work with the designer to hone your final product. In terms of pricing, you could either choose one of their design contest packages or choose a one-to-one project where the platform takes a small commission.
6. Gigster
Started in 2013, Gigster is an online network of skilled designers, web and mobile app developers, and software developers, project managers around the world. The platform helps startups, as well as big corporations, build and manage effective remote teams of highly qualified and talented designers.
Over the years, Gigster’s extensive industry experience has helped them create a robust process that makes it easy for companies to hire data visualization designers and collaborate with them effectively.
7. Freelancer
As the name suggests, Freelancer is a remote hiring platform where businesses can meet and hire data visualization designers for their projects. The platform offers a wide and expansive range of remote profiles that include highly experienced remote designers along with junior and mid-level experts so you can pick someone that fits your budget. It’s important to note that Freelancer doesn’t provide the extra layer of vetting that platforms such as Toptal provide. Still, it is quite effective as you can post your job requirement and choose from the remote designers offering their services.
8. Remote OK
RemoteOK’s is also a freelance marketplace with its model that is slightly different from that of Upwork and Freelancer. The job board is used and trusted by some of the world’s most well-known brands such as Namecheap, Amazon, Microsoft, ESPN, Airtable, Starbucks, and more. Here, instead of browsing the profiles of remote designers, you find the ones you like and send your job offer to potential candidates. As of July 2020, there are over 1,200 remote design jobs listed on the website.
9. X-Team
X-Team is another one of the great sites to hire data visualization designers. Designers that are part of X-Team have worked with some of the world’s top brands such as Riot Games, Fox Broadcasting, Kaplan Inc., Coinbase, Google, Twitter, Beachbody, and more.
The platform thoroughly vets all its applicants to ensure you find the designer who has the right skill-sets and experience to handle your project. That’s not it; more than just offering top designers, the X-Team also supports its designers by funding their learning and growth and offers them a remote work environment that motivates and inspires them to do great work.
10. Fiverr
Fiverr Pro is a step up from the regular Fiverr platform. Unlike Fiverr, data visualization designers on this platform are properly vetted and verified to ensure you get the best of the lot. Only freelancers and designers with the highest ratings and good feedback scores make it to the Pro platform.
The only difference between Fiverr and Fiverr Pro is on the latter, data visualization designers study the details of your project and reach out to you. Unlike Toptal and Gigster, this isn’t a matching service. Therefore, to ensure you’re getting the best talent, it’s important that you write a detailed project description.
11. LHH Recruitment Solutions
Similar to most other top freelance marketplaces such as Toptal and X-team, LHH Recruitment Solutions (formerly known as Hired), too, thoroughly vets the data visualization designers before accepting them on its platform. Additionally, LHH also offers a few more assessments to ensure that you find the best designers and freelancers for your project.
You can start by creating a company profile and search through potentially one of the largest candidate pools using their own search algorithm. Pick the experts you like, interview them, and get started. The only caveat here is that this whole process can take up to almost a month and if you’re looking for someone long-term then it could potentially take longer.
12. People Per Hour
PeoplePerHour gives you three different options to hire data visualization designers. The first option is Hourlies that are fixed rates and you can begin right away. In the second option, you share the details of your project and then wait for the designers to reach out to you.
The third option works similar to most other freelance marketplaces where you browse through their database of designer profiles and approach the ones you want to work with directly. The platform allows you to collaborate on your project, effectively communicate with the designers, and pay them for their services when the job is completed.
13. Gun.io
Gun.io is another great platform to hire data visualization designers. Unlike platforms such as Upwork and Freelancers, Gun.io does the hiring for you by finding and vetting experienced designers. A data visualization designer on Gun.io has to go through seven stages of assessment to ensure that they have the required skills, talent, and technical know-how to deliver top-quality projects. The team is based in the US which makes it easy to manage time zones and coordinate. Gun.io has also worked with some of the world’s top brands such as Cisco, NBC, and Tesla.
14. Envato Studio
Part of the Envato network, Envato Studio is a freelance marketplace that offers hand-selected remote data visualization designers, developers, and digital talents such as audio/video production, web development, and more. You can compare prices, portfolios, and look for community recommendations to hire remote designers that will be perfect for you.
The platform also provides inbuilt messaging and job management tools for better collaboration. With respect to the hiring process, Envato Studio is similar to Fiverr where you reach out to the designer, explain your project, and ask for a custom quote.
Outsourcely
Outsourcely is a good platform for hiring remote data visualization designers, especially for long-term projects. The platform gives you multiple categories such as data visualization, web design, writing, video/audio editing, customer service, software development, and more. Depending on the plan you choose, you can manage your remote designers with real-time communication including email, private chat, phone call, and live video. Outsourcely uses a third-party work history verification system to ensure employers can vet the designers before hiring.