Senior Graphic Designer

Sezzle

About Sezzle:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose long-standing mission is to financially empower the next generation. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a subprime credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the 16,000+ eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle.

As the first and only B-Corp in the payments space, Sezzle’s goal is to help everyone pursue financial freedom, and to invest in social good and ethical initiatives that shape a better world.

At Sezzle, we’re committed to putting purpose alongside profitability. We work hard to maintain rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency to build a better world. The employees at Sezzle lean into significant societal and cultural shifts, ensuring internal and external focus on positive impacts that benefit our community.

https://sezzle.com/


Position Details

Senior Graphic Designer
Job
Full-time
12/12/2022
Twin Cities Metro
Minneapolis, MN

About the Role:

A high growth fintech company seeks a creative Graphic Designer with experience in digital, print, and website design. We’re looking for someone who can take direction from written or spoken ideas and convert them seamlessly into images, layouts, and other designs. The successful candidate should have an intimate understanding of how marketing campaigns work, preferably in the retail and eCommerce sectors. We work in a fast-paced environment, so the ideal person will be able to hit the ground running as soon as we bring on a new client or project. Applicants with experience leading creative teams and designing with other professionals will be given prime consideration.

As a Senior Graphic Designer, you are responsible for the creative direction and execution of a wide variety of graphic design projects. To achieve these goals, you will work very closely with the marketing team and other junior designers. As a creative designer, you will create and update assets related to formats displayed online and for print. You will report to our Creative Director.

Responsibilities:

  • Create visual aspects of marketing materials, sales collateral, websites, and other media 
  • Consult with clients’ marketing, copywriting and sales teams to create cohesive designs that reflect our clients’ corporate cultures and goals 
  • Create interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use 
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to clearly define user experience requirements, user scenarios, and journey maps 
  • Contribute to ideation and sketching sessions, storyboards, prototyping, and usability testing to create comprehensive wireframe system 
  • Create and deliver mock-ups to aid with cross-team communication, collaboration, and development 
  • Continuous expansion and maintenance of enablement resources in close cooperation with the sales department 
  • Identification of relevant communication media (e.g. photo and video) and their market-oriented preparation across many channels, optimized for engagement on any device 
  • Determination of relevant industry imagery and implementation of Sezzle content on existing platforms 
  • Develop and maintain brand style guide and assets

Ideal Skills & Experience:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art Design, Marketing or related discipline 
  • Extensive experience with Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketch, InDesign, specifically with mockups, web design and multimedia presentation 
  • 3+ years in professional commercial design 
  • Adaptive design eye and skill 
  • Ability to absorb and apply constructive criticism from peers and clients 
  • Ability to discuss effective creative direction, brand consistency and top standards of execution for marketing materials amongst high level employees.

About You:

  • A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle. 
  • A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build. 
  • An excellent communicator. 
  • A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things. 
  • Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.

Perks & Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and benefits 
  • Generous stock options 
  • Medical, dental and vision insurance 
  • Life and long term disability insurance 
  • 401k with 100% match 
  • Collaborative workspace, commuter benefits, full-stocked kitchen, weekly lunches and much more! 
  • The opportunity to join Minneapolis’s fastest growing startup alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals


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