We’re hiring a Visual Designer

Edit: Thanks for the interest in this role! We found someone and won’t accept any further applications.

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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.

We have a strong product, and we want to talk about it in a strong, beautiful way. Which is why:

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We’re looking for a Visual Designer to join our team and design all our communications and our website.

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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 45,000 and 60,000€ 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

Your job will be to make us look great:

• Design all ongoing communications for Datawrapper, whether it’s feature images for blog posts read by tens of thousands of readers, slides for our webinars and onboarding trainings, event design for conferences we organize, or images/videos that get shared with thousands of followers on our social media accounts.
• Design the very first impression people get of Datawrapper: our website. Datawrapper.de is the most important tool we have to showcase our product and help people decide if they should give it a try. You’ll be working on the design of the website, creating visuals for it, and making it more beautiful and easier to navigate.

While doing so, you’ll touch on and design other aspects of Datawrapper with the help of the Design team: the brand design of Datawrapper, design systems, and data visualizations in general.

Who we’re looking for

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

• Digital design. We’re looking for somebody who knows how how to use typography, colors, shapes, spacing, and assets like illustrations or screenshots to create something really good looking — for users on small mobile screens and extra-large desktop screens.
• Web design experiene. Designing (for) a website will be a big part of the job. Your portfolio should show that you know the possibilities that come with it.

You should also have the following skills:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 “Visual Designer”

Please note: This role was previously listed under the title “UI/UX Designer (Brand & Communications)”. 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