We’re hiring a Werkstudent*in Social Media & Communications

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 also teach people do’s and dont’s of creating good data visualizations – and want to reach more people for who that content could be useful. That’s why:

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We’re looking for a working student (Werkstudierenden) for social media & communications.

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👉 15-20 hours per week with flexible working hours: We ask for 30 minutes of your time each weekday between 9am and 4pm, but you’re free to choose when to work the remaining hours.

👉 €15/hour

👉 Remote or at our office in Prenzlauer Berg – with a large external monitor, lots of data vis books, terrace, unlimited lemonade/coffee/tea/snacks of your choice

👉 Please note: You must be registered in Germany and be a student to apply for this job.

The Communications team

You’ll join the Datawrapper Communications team: Lisa, Rose, Guillermina and Vivien. We publish weekly blog series, give webinars, add content to our website, organize conferences, write longer articles on the good and bad of data visualization, help announce new Datawrapper features, post on social media, maintain and add to our help docs, and more.

What you’ll work on

You’ll be helping us to

• post to and monitor social media, including LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Bluesky, and Mastodon. This includes posting about new Datawrapper features and webinars, but also about our blog posts and their biggest lessons. We’re open for ideas.
• keep our blog and website useful, e.g. by updating old charts with new data in our app (it’s easier than it sounds – we’ll show you how!). You’ll make sure that our blog posts and the content in it is up to date and helpful, no matter how old it is.

Who we’re looking for

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

• Experience with and enthusiasm for posting on social media.
• Strong English writing skills.
• Good design skills and an interest in data visualization are a plus.
• German language skills are not required.

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.

How to apply

Do you want to get paid to think of fun ways to post to social channels with thousands of followers, while learning more about data visualizations?

→ Send an email to jobs@datawrapper.de with the subject “Working student social media & communications,” including links to all the social accounts you post on (and English writing samples if your posts aren’t in English).

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

– Lisa and the Datawrapper team