Full-Time 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

• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• You'll receive timely compensation rewards that reflect your impact. 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.
• 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.

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