The financial industry is growing at a record pace, but the software powering it is often difficult to navigate. Complex workflows, technical terminology, and inconsistent product experiences create unnecessary friction for users.
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 4,000 users during our first year of launch. Our team brings former experience at the world's leading quantitative firms, including Two Sigma, Flow Traders, Tower Research, PDT Partners, SIG, and more.
We're looking for a UX Writer to shape the voice of our products and create intuitive, user-centered experiences across our platform. You'll partner closely with product designers, engineers, and go-to-market teams to ensure every interaction is clear, consistent, and thoughtfully crafted.
This is a highly cross-functional role with broad ownership and visibility across the company. You'll help simplify complex financial concepts, establish messaging standards, and influence the product experience for a growing user base. As a UX Writer, you'll have the opportunity to define our content strategy, build scalable processes, and make a lasting impact on both our product and brand.
As the UX Writer at Databento, you will:- Own copy across all product surfaces, ensuring messaging is clear, consistent, and user-focused
- Collaborate with product designers to optimize user flows and improve the overall product experience
- Review product mockups and prototypes, providing copy recommendations and supporting design-to-engineering handoffs
- Partner with engineering teams to develop intuitive language for complex technical concepts and workflows
- Work closely with product and go-to-market teams to ensure product messaging aligns drives success of product
- Develop and maintain messaging frameworks, voice and tone guidelines, and copywriting standards
- Support content design initiatives
- Serve as the internal subject matter expert on UX writing and content strategy
- Identify opportunities to improve product usability through thoughtful language and content design
- Bachelor's degree
- Prior job experience in UX/UI writing, product design, product marketing, technical writing, or any copywriting role
- Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centered writing
- Excellent written communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts
- Strong understanding of UX principles and design
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product, engineering, and design teams
- Familiarity with Figma
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!
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Prior job experience in UX/UI writing, product design, product marketing, technical writing, or any copywriting role
- Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centered writing
- Excellent written communication skills with ability to simplify complex technical concepts
- Strong understanding of UX principles and design
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product, engineering, and design teams
- Familiarity with Figma
What We Do
We're hiring! Check out our job openings here: https://www.databento.com/careers. Databento makes it simpler and faster to get market data. Our self-service model allows users to instantly pick up live exchange feeds and terabytes of historical data — and only pay for what they use. Our goal is to power the world's largest finance and fintech institutions and make data accessible for small startups. Since starting in 2019, we've raised over $27.8M in funding. Our team brings years of experience running high-frequency trading desks, and includes alumni from firms like Two Sigma, Google, Microsoft, and Bloomberg.
