We’re hiring a Data Vis Product Designer

Hi there! We are also hiring for a Visual Designer without a focus on data visualization right now. Find more information here.

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We at Datawrapper want to help everyone create better charts, maps, and tables. To achieve this, we offer a data visualization tool that individuals and organizations like The New York Times, The Washington Post, Zeit Online, and Spiegel rely on to quickly and easily create beautiful visualizations for their online and print publications.

Creating data visualizations can be challenging, and creating beautiful ones, even more so. In order to support our users and make their task as easy as possible, we keep improving our app. Which is why:

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We’re looking for a Data Vis Product Designer to join our team.

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This role is available on a 5-day-per-week or 4-day-per-week basis (on 80% salary), on a permanent contract (“unbefristeter Vertrag”). The full-time compensation for this role will be between 50,000 and 70,000€ per year, including 30 days of paid vacation and benefits.

This role is available both for candidates who wish to work on-site in Berlin, as well as candidates working remotely. If you work remotely, you need to be based within a 1 hour time zone difference from Berlin.

The Design team

You’ll join the Datawrapper Design team, which includes David, Alex, and Gustav. Together, we oversee every aspect of design across the company. Our work ranges from product design – deciding which features to add and how they work, look, and feel – to managing our brand’s visual identity and visual communication. With so many big topics on our plate, we’re excited to grow the team.

What you’ll work on

You’ll design what users will be able to do with Datawrapper and make it easy for them to do so:

• Improve and extend an UI that thousands will use. Your designs at Datawrapper will help hundreds of thousands of people to create data visualizations quickly and easily, even if they don’t have much experience with it. You will work closely with our visualization team to get the controls of a new visualization feature just right, simplify them as much as possible, and make them even more intuitive to use.
• Design the elements of data visualizations millions will see. You’ll be designing parts of data visualizations that millions of readers will get to see on the web and in print: Tooltips, grids, margins, icons, and more. You’ll improve the design of our current visualization types and design new ones; thinking about requirements and what options our users will have.

You’ll also work on our design system to make components reusable, and will help with user tests to learn more about our users and their needs.

Who we’re looking for

You’ll fit in well if you’re great at the following:

• Solving complicated problems. You’re excited about making something look easy, even when it’s hard. This involves breaking down tricky problems, thinking deeply about potential user needs (including edge cases), and being smart about priorities and trade-offs.
• Experience with complex software design. Datawrapper has grown into to a feature-rich app over the years. Ideally, you understand the challenges of not just simple dashboards or slick to-do apps, but large software structures.
• Experience creating beautiful data visualization. At the heart of Datawrapper is data visualization; many of our team have worked in data journalism. You share this love and have designed charts with clear messages – as one finds in media like The New York Times, Spiegel, or Zeit Online –, in the best case from scratch. You understand that the small details matter: The width of the grid lines, the color of the axis labels, the spacing between two chart panels.

You should also have the following skills:

• Documentation and communication. Not all design work happens on the artboard. A big part of it is documenting your work and communicating in person, via chat, or in our project management system. This should be something you look forward to.
• Standards. It’s rarely necessary to reinvent the wheel. There’s value in using existing solutions, whether that’s technical web standards or UI patterns that users are already familiar with. You should be ready to make use of them in your work.
• Multitasking. We work on many projects at the same time. You should be able to switch between tasks and quickly familiarize yourself with a given topic.
• Affinity for code. We’re a web-based software company and you’ll be in touch with code, git, and lots of other things related to web development. You don’t have to write code, but it’s important that you understand it as a medium for your designs.
• English skills. Datawrapper’s working language is English. Knowing German is not necessary, but a plus.

Who uses Datawrapper?

Visualizations created with Datawrapper reach over 200 million unique visitors every month and get viewed billions of times. Our chart editor is used by tens of thousands of users — writers, statisticians, data scientists, public servants, financial analysts, and many more. Our most prominent and visible customers are newsrooms: Datawrapper is used by data visualization teams at organizations like The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, and many more.

We build and support Datawrapper with a team of >30 people, which gives everyone a critical and important role in shaping the future of our company.

What to expect from working at Datawrapper

A happy work life! We at Datawrapper appreciate a shared feeling of doing meaningful work, a high degree of freedom, helpful coworkers, and a friendly working environment.

• Growth, development, and personal initiative. We’re a small company, which means there are lots of opportunities to grow and learn. If you’ve got an idea and the drive to make it happen, we welcome it.
• Competitive compensation and benefits, including 30 days of paid vacation, a 2,000 euro education budget, and the latest and greatest hardware of your choice.

How to apply

Does this sound interesting? Get in touch with us! Send along your CV and portfolio and tell us about your previous experience and how you think it makes you a good fit for this role.

→ Send it all to jobs@datawrapper.de with the subject line “Data Vis Product Designer”

Please note: This role was previously listed under the title “UI / UX designer with experience in data visualization”. If you have applied to that role already, you are already in consideration.

We hope you apply, especially if you’re from a group that’s underrepresented in our team.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

– David and the Datawrapper team