We’re hiring a Data Vis Product Designer
October 2nd, 2024
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Hi there! We are also hiring for a Data Vis Product Designer right now. Find more information here.
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:
We’re looking for a Visual Designer to join our team and design all our communications and our website.
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.
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.
Your job will be to make us look great:
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.
You’ll fit in well if you’re great at the following:
You should also have the following skills:
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.
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.
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
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