About Datawrapper
What is Datawrapper?
Datawrapper is a Berlin-based data visualization SaaS that helps people create charts, maps, and tables. Customers include some of the world's largest brands, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Reuters — Datawrapper visualizations appear regularly across major newsrooms and research organizations worldwide. The product was born out of frustration with ill-designed Excel charts and hard-to-master power-user tools, and was designed to follow data visualization best practices from the ground up while being easy for non-specialists to master.
Where will I work?
The team works remote-first with an office in Berlin's Friedrichshain district, close to Boxhagener Platz, for people who choose to work in person. Datawrapper's careers page describes the office as plant-filled and notes that team members can choose how much time they spend on-site.
What is the Datawrapper team like?
More than 30 people work at Datawrapper across product, engineering, design, customer support, and content. The team operates by four stated principles: Product focus (design and product development at the front and center), Customer care (helping all users — free and paying — succeed through direct support and rich resources), Modern technologies (caring deeply about the tools used, including an open-source core), and Sustainable finances (funded entirely through customers, with no outside investors, enabling a long-term approach without short-term-return compromises). There are no hard boundaries between teams: engineers help conceptualize features, customer support influences product development, and everyone contributes to the blog.
Work-Life Balance
Datawrapper practices a remote-first culture with a focus on written communication, minimizing distractions, and creating a productive work environment. Every full-time position is also available as a 4-day work week at 80% salary — language preserved from prior Datawrapper job advertisements. (Note: the current careers page does not list this option explicitly; the policy comes from past JDs and is preserved here as inherited.) Twenty-four days of paid vacation plus German public holidays are offered to staff working a 4-day week.
Perks and Benefits
- Optional 4-day work week at 80% salary (from prior job ads — not on current careers page)
- Remote-first with Berlin office option
- €2,000 yearly education budget for conferences, books, or courses
- Choose your own hardware (monitor, drawing tablet, special keyboard, etc.)
- Collaborative environment with no hard team boundaries
- Bootstrapped — funded entirely through customers, no investor pressure