--- title: 'Visual Designer at Databento' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/visual-designer-databento-san-francisco-4mhacc7y8dm8' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-07' --- # Visual Designer at Databento - **Company:** Databento - **Location:** San Francisco, CA / New York, NY / Salt Lake City, UT - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/databento/jobs/8302437 ## Job description 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 market data platform for modern finance. The company provides real-time and historical data across futures, options, and equities through a unified API. By owning the entire market data stack end-to-end, Databento is the first platform of its kind to combine the performance and reliability demanded by the world's leading trading firms with a dramatically simpler developer experience. Our team includes alumni of Two Sigma, Citadel Securities, Flow Traders, IMC, Tower Research, Jump Trading, HRT, Jane Street, and SIG. We're looking for a visual designer to bring Databento's brand to life across web, digital, and print. You'll create compelling visual experiences across projects ranging from website design and marketing campaigns to event materials and other branded assets. This is a hands-on role for a designer who cares deeply about visual craft and enjoys working across a variety of formats. You'll own projects from concept through production, partnering with our growth and product design teams to translate technical concepts into clear, effective visuals. The role offers meaningful opportunities to shape Databento's visual identity and influence our creative processes. We're open to designers at different stages of their careers and will match the role's level to your experience and skills. ## Responsibilities - Design responsive pages for Databento's marketing website, with a focus on usability, visual hierarchy, and conversion. - Develop creative concepts and visual assets for product launches, campaigns, blog posts, and social media. - Create event signage, promotional materials, and other digital and print collateral. - Turn complex financial and technical concepts into illustrations, diagrams, and infographics. - Extend Databento's visual identity across channels, developing reusable templates and exploring new creative directions. - Own design projects from initial brief to final delivery, coordinating with internal teams and external vendors. ## Requirements - A portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft in typography, layout, composition, color, and hierarchy. - Typically 3+ years of experience in visual, marketing, or brand design. We weigh your portfolio more heavily than your years of experience. - Experience designing responsive web pages for desktop and mobile. - Understanding of web UX principles. - Experience designing across digital and print formats. - Experience with extending and evolving design systems. - Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud. - Ability to navigate ambiguity, communicate design decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Nice-to-haves - Experience designing for B2B SaaS, developer tools, fintech, or other technical products.Experience at a high-growth startup or creative agency. - Experience with motion graphics, animation, or video editing. - Familiarity with web accessibility, A/B testing, and conversion analytics. - Experience preparing print-ready files and coordinating with print vendors, particularly for event signage and collateral. - Familiarity with HTML/CSS. - Interest in exploring AI-assisted tools to improve design workflows and production efficiency. - Interest in financial markets or market data. We offer health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits, as well as 401(k) matching for full-time employees. We accommodate 100% remote work, with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency. The base salary range for this role is $95,000–$185,000, benchmarked to Tier 1 locations in each country. Total compensation may also include bonuses, commissions, and equity, depending on the role. Notice about phishing scams Be cautious of phishing scams impersonating Databento that offer fake job interviews and request purchases. Official emails come only from @databento.com or us.greenhouse-mail.io (our ATS). Any other domains (e.g., databento-careers.com, databento.online) are fraudulent. -- Databento, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or genetics. We comply with federal, state, and local nondiscrimination laws in every location where we operate. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave, compensation, and training. Pursuant to applicable laws, we consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records. If you need an accommodation, please let us know. Our recruiting data suggests that underrepresented applicants often downplay their skills. Even if your experience doesn’t exactly match the qualifications listed, we still want to hear from you. Please apply! ## About Databento ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Databento provides real-time and historical market data APIs for equities, futures, options, and FX, making it simpler and faster for firms to access exchange-grade data directly from colocation sites. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $41.8M total funding) - **Headquarters**: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed; CEO is Christina Qi. The founding team includes veterans from high-frequency trading firms like Two Sigma, Flow Traders, Virtu, and Tower Research. ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services – Market Data Infrastructure & APIs - **Target customers**: B2B – from early-stage startups and high-growth firms to large financial institutions (hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, asset managers, banks). Over 40,000 customers. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To offer a simpler, faster, and more affordable way to access market data, eliminating the complexity of traditional data vendors. ## Products & Services - **Real-Time Data API**: Streaming live market data (trades, quotes, NBBO, order book depth) with sub-microsecond precision. Median latency of 590 microseconds from matching engine to application over the public internet. - **Historical Data API**: Up to 15 years of normalized tick-by-tick data covering over 3 million active symbols and 19 PB of coverage. Available via HTTP API, S3, GCP, or rsync. - **Reference Data**: Corporate actions, adjustment factors, and security master data for over 200 trading venues. - **Packet Captures (PCAPs)**: Raw market data in native protocol with nanosecond-resolution hardware timestamps, delivered via cloud storage. - **Data Schemas**: Supports multiple formats – order book, tick data, bar aggregates (OHLCV), auction imbalance, and more. - **Client Libraries**: Python, C++, and Rust libraries, plus Raw API (binary TCP) and HTTP API. Optimized for Pandas dataframes (over 1 million rows per second). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $1.4M (LinkedIn estimate); Total Funding of $41.8M - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Indicator Ventures (led pre-seed), MassChallenge, DCU FinTech Innovation Center, and other undisclosed investors in Series A rounds (2021: $24.2M, 2024: $10M). - **Growth Signals**: 40,000+ customers gained in 3 years since launch; headcount grew 25.8% YoY to 31 employees; operates in 5 countries (US, UK, Portugal, Ireland, Netherlands); LinkedIn followers grew 32.5% yearly; active job postings up 300% YoY. ## Competitive Advantages - **Direct colocation sourcing**: Data is ingested at Equinix NY4, CyrusOne Aurora I, and FR2 facilities – no third-party data providers in between, reducing latency and improving accuracy. - **Usage-based pricing + flat-rate subscriptions**: Only pay for data consumed, unlike traditional vendors with high minimums. Free tier with $125 in credits. - **Single API for multiple asset classes**: Equities, options, futures, and FX all normalized under one integration. - **Nanosecond timestamps**: PTP-synchronized with sub-microsecond accuracy across venues – a differentiator from most competitors. - **Developer-first experience**: Simple self-service portal, multiple encoding options (CSV, JSON, DBN), and Pandas-optimized data delivery. ## Strategic Focus - **Expand coverage**: Adding Spot FX (coming soon) and more exchanges/ATSs across asset classes. - **Global reach**: Growing APAC and EMEA sales teams; hiring Technical Support Engineers in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, and other hubs. - **Product depth**: Enhancing real-time feed performance, introducing new schemas, and improving cloud-based delivery of PCAPs. - **Enterprise adoption**: Targeting larger financial institutions while maintaining self-service for startups. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: 100% remote-first company with a small team (<30 people). Emphasis on asynchronous communication, trust, and flexibility (walk the dog, go to the gym, etc.). No AI resume screening – every application reviewed by a human. - **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Fully remote globally, with optional co-working hubs in Boston, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, New York, Portland, and London for certain roles. - **Notable perks**: Health & dental insurance, 401(k) matching, visa sponsorship. Team is lean, so employees have high impact and autonomy. Engineering team uses C++, Rust, Python, and works on low-latency systems. - **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly growing company with increasing headcount and job postings; employees get exposure to fintech infrastructure at scale. ## Sources 1. [Databento.com](https://databento.com/) 2. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/databento) 3. [About Page](https://databento.com/about) 4. 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