We're hiring a working student to curate the Data Vis Dispatch

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 publish the Data Vis Dispatch, a weekly digest of the best new data visualization. The person who's been curating, editing, and publishing it is leaving us at the end of February. That's why:

We're looking for a working student (Werkstudierenden) to help us run our most popular weekly blog format: the Data Vis Dispatch, starting in early February.

👉 12-20 hours per week, mostly on Mondays and Tuesdays as the Dispatch gets published every Tuesday (though some preparatory work can be done earlier). 12 hours is the minimum, and you can decide which hours to work after an introductory period.

👉 €15/hour

👉 Remote or at our office in Friedrichshain – 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.

Communications team

You’ll join the Datawrapper communications team. 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

Writing the Data Vis Dispatch was not only a perfect way to get to know the field of data visualization. Every week, it feels like a valuable community service for many data vis enthusiasts who greatly appreciate your work. It really makes a difference. Vivien, currently running the Data Vis Dispatch

You'll be helping us to:

• curate and publish the Data Vis Dispatch, our weekly digest of the best new data visualizations. This includes finding beautiful data vis on the web, organizing it by topic, and putting everything together in a blog post that you'll publish every Tuesday.
• edit Weekly Chart visuals in Figma and post to Instagram to generate interest in our colleagues' writing and creative visualizations.

Who we're looking for

You’ll fit in well if you bring the following:

• An interest in data visualization.
• An eye for good (and bad) design.
• Strong English writing skills.
• German language skills are not required.

You'll get a comprehensive onboarding, and we'll show you everything you need to know about putting together and publishing the Dispatch.

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

Are you interested in getting paid to look at beautiful data visualizations in the New York Times, The Economist, ZEIT Online, among others? Then this is the right job for you.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

– the Datawrapper team