Tableau Ambassador Nominations and Applications are Open

The Tableau Ambassador Program is now open for nominations and applications to the 2025 cohort. Curious about what it takes to be an ambassador, what's new this year, or how to nominate or apply? We've got you covered with all the essential information. If you're already set to nominate someone, jump right in using this link. Otherwise, read on.

What do Tableau Ambassadors do?

Tableau Ambassadors are leaders in our community and data champions who want to bring analytics to everyone. You can find them answering questions in the community, publishing content on social platforms, leading and speaking at user groups, teaching others how to use Tableau APIs, and sharing data visualization best practices.

Ambassadors try out new things and push us to get better. This year’s cohort helped beta-test Tableau Next, wrote blogs on topics like Tableau LangChain, Viz Extensions, and Multi-fact Relationships, and helped plan DataFam Europe. At Tableau Conference 2025, they presented at some of the most well-attended sessions, hosted networking meetups, volunteered at community booths, and led community projects. They also helped us plan our new Tableau Community Slack Workspace where Ambassadors welcome newcomers, answer questions, and provide feedback on dashboards. Their willingness to volunteer and explore new ideas helps the community thrive. 

Tableau Ambassadors also advocate for under-represented voices within our community. This year the Ambassadors helped recommend people for the Tableau Community Highlight, an award that recognizes people who give back to the DataFam outside of our Visionaries and Ambassadors. They also helped identify Tableau Public Featured Authors and helped to nominate “Viz of the Day.” Ambassadors are allies and advocates that amplify the voices of others, mentor newcomers to data, and help us uphold the Tableau Community Code of Conduct. 

How do I apply or nominate someone to be an Ambassador?

Everyone, both returning Ambassadors and those who want to join for the first time, should apply to become an Ambassador in 2025. We know it’s a lot of work to share your application every year, but we ask that you do so because hearing directly about your contributions helps us evaluate every candidate fairly. The deadline for application and nominations is July 25, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time.

Nominees who don’t apply will be notified of their candidacy and given a week to submit their own information. We do not require you to apply, but our strong recommendation is that you don’t rely on other community members to nominate you—you are your best advocate. 

The application form asks you for your:

• Social account links like X, LinkedIn, Forums, and Tableau Public (all optional)
• Country of residence (required)
• A summary of how you have been active in the community over the past year (required)
• An explanation of why you want to be a Tableau Ambassador (required)
• Any links you think will be helpful for us when we review your submission (optional)
• For Students and Teachers: There are additional fields about your activities on campus.

For the nomination form, almost all of the above fields are optional. We only require a link to one of your nominee’s online accounts so that we can contact them if they didn’t apply!

What is new in the Tableau Ambassador program this year?

A simplified title: This year, the Tableau Ambassador program will be simplified into one recognition, “Tableau Ambassador,” rather than aligning to seven branches, as we had done previously. This update will empower our Tableau Ambassadors to contribute across the entire community, beyond a specific channel or program, and recognize them for helping others, wherever they are.

New designations: In order to ensure our community knows who our Ambassadors are and how they give back, every participant will be able to select an audience designation when they apply. These designations include: Tableau Community Leader, CRM Analytics Community Leader, DataDev Community Leader, Student Community Leader, and Teaching Community Leader.

New website design: We will be launching a redesigned website that will feature information about who our Tableau Ambassadors are, where they participate in the community, and how you can connect with them.

A new logo: We’ve updated the Tableau Ambassador logo with a new design that reflects this group’s history of creating opportunities for connection, growth, and inspiration. It also compliments the creative approach for the Tableau Community’s other logos, including the Tableau Visionary program. 

Maybe you’re wondering: What do these changes mean for how the new class of Tableau Ambassadors participate? In short, if you’re selected as a 2025 Tableau Ambassador, you’ll have more opportunities to engage and give back across the entire community. The new class will be able to volunteer for projects that used to be reserved just for specific branches (for example: mentoring User Group Leaders, helping to select “Viz of the Day,” and supporting DataDev Day). We will also continue to have regularly scheduled connection calls focused on our community programs, but they will be accessible to all of our Ambassadors.

The fine print

When evaluating applications to become an ambassador, we do not consider internal contributions made within one’s own company. We do not select Tableau Ambassadors based on the number of nominations received. While we do read and track all submissions, we also use internal metrics, employee recommendations, and the needs of our global community to determine the new group.

Nominations will be open from June 20, 2025, through July 25, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. PDT.

Following the nomination and application period, the Tableau team will notify all candidates and review all submissions, and ask those nominated to provide optional additional information. Nominees who didn’t apply are given the opportunity to opt out of consideration at that time. This process may take up to three weeks.

Personal invitations to join will be shared and must be accepted before the public announcement. All ambassadors are required to sign an NDA with Tableau. Due to the volume of applicants and to maintain the privacy of the candidates and reviewers, we do not disclose the reasoning about why individual candidates were or weren’t offered an invitation to the program.

Due to U.S. export control and Salesforce policies, we cannot accept Tableau Ambassadors from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, and the regions of Crimea, Luhansk, or Donetsk in Ukraine. While applicants from China, Myanmar, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions may be accepted as Ambassadors, we cannot provide program benefits of monetary value. This is detailed in our Main Services Agreement and on our Compliance page.

The 2025 Tableau Ambassadors will be announced in September 2025.

Application / Nomination Form

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