UI Designer

The financial industry is growing at a record pace but our data providers are still stuck in the past — with cumbersome onboarding processes complicated APIs slow infrastructure and expensive licensing costs.

Databento is the next-generation market data provider — with the radical idea that you should only pay for the data that you use. We power the world's largest finance and fintech institutions and lower the barrier of entry for small startups gaining over 4000 users during our first year of launch. Our team consists of former data users from firms like Two Sigma Belvedere Pico Flow Traders and Tower Research.

We offer health dental disability and life insurance benefits as well as 401(k) matching and visa sponsorships for full-time employees. We accommodate 100% remote work with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency.

Responsibilities

As a UI Designer you'll be working closely with our product and engineering teams to design and improve on our core product and implement growth strategies to widen our user base. You'll be:

• Own the end-to-end design process across multiple projects emphasizing visually compelling core product features and growth initiatives.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify visual design opportunities and translate user needs into striking elegant UI solutions.

• Work closely with engineers to ensure pixel-perfect design implementation and uphold a high standard for UI quality in feature launches.

• Define and expand design systems to maintain consistency across UI components branding and marketing collateral.

• Advocate for UI design excellence by establishing firm-wide standards for visual cohesion and branding consistency.

The product

Our core products are an API service and an enterprise web application. Here are some key highlights of our product strategy:

• Product-led growth with low touch sales. We rely on product features like referrals team invites and self-signup process instead of a traditional sales pipeline to scale our user base.

• Enterprise-grade consumer-scale product. (Like Slack or GitHub.) Our competitors adopt a traditional enterprise SaaS strategy opting to hide their product behind a 'request for quote/demo' and employing a high touch onboarding process with big sales teams. We believe we can outpace their growth by targeting the same enterprises with an institutional-grade product that instead has the ease of adoption and transparency of a consumer product.

• Targeting a developer-centric user base. (Like AWS Stripe or Plaid.) We pursue the exponential effect of providing products that enable developers to build an ecosystem of other products and tools.

• Fast iteration. With multiple deployments per day.

• Putting product needs before technical limitations. We have great engineers who will walk over hot coals to actualize difficult product requirements.

What makes being a UI designer at Databento exciting

• You'll impact high-level product decisions as well as shape product design culture. As one of our initial design hires you will largely influence the product design culture and help set the stage for our product's growth. As such we value designers who take initiative and can design with ambiguity and can contribute feedback on how to improve our design processes.

• We're focused on product-led growth not sales-led growth. We resonate with the pain that design is less prioritized in many enterprise products. At Databento our product is the central driver of growth and you'll be at the center of developing our product experience. Not only are our founders always raising the bar of our product's design quality but our engineers who usually fall into target user profile contribute to advocating for and improving user experience.

• You'll receive timely compensation rewards that reflect your impact Here we believe in giving kudos when it's due. We measure your value based on your work and direct contributions you put in and reward frequently and accordingly when it comes to pay and promotions. Additionally we offer competitive base pay that is comparable to other top tech companies.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a UI Designer or Product Designer.

• Proficiency with design tools (Figma Adobe).

• Experience collaborating with engineers and other designers.

• Experience performing user research user flow mapping and presenting options to stakeholders.

• Understanding of color theory typography interaction design motion principles and visual hierarchy.

• Keen eye for design improvements and visual detail.

• A strong portfolio.

• Bachelor's degree in a design or technical field such as HCI Design or Information Architecture.

Desired qualifications

• Experience with designing enterprise web applications or API products (e.g. Stripe Twilio Plaid Segment Algolia Agora).

• Industry knowledge in fintech.

• Familiarity with responsive design.

• Familiarity with collecting user metrics and analyzing user sessions (e.g. Amplitude Heap Mixpanel).

• Experience with front-end web development (HTML/CSS JavaScript).

• Exposure to product management at high growth startup.

Please include a sample portfolio or website in your application if possible.

Databento Inc provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran status or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements Databento complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training. Pursuant to applicable laws we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. And if you believe that you will need any type of accommodation please let us know.