Graphic Design Intern

About Sezzle:

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We're not just transforming payments; we're redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we're building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you're excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

About the Role:

Sezzle is seeking a talented and motivated Graphic Design Intern who is best-in-class, with a high IQ and a high EQ. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.

In this role, you will be instrumental in crafting visually compelling designs that resonate with our brand’s ethos and captivate our target audience. As a Graphic Design Intern at Sezzle, you will work closely with the marketing, product and even sales teams to produce high-quality visuals that drive engagement and elevate our brand presence across different digital platforms.

What You'll Do:

• Visual Branding: Follow brand guidelines to develop and maintain consistent visual branding across all channels, including websites, email, print, and sales decks.
• Creative Design: Conceptualize and design graphics for various marketing efforts, including in-app banners, emails, landing pages, sales decks, video storyboarding, and display ads.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the creative, marketing, and product teams to ensure goals and timelines are being met.
• Innovation: Stay up-to-date with the latest design trends, tools, and technologies to continuously push the creative boundaries and bring fresh ideas to the table.
• Project Management: Manage multiple design projects from concept through completion, ensuring high-quality output within deadlines.
• Brand Storytelling: Translate complex ideas into simple, elegant visuals that tell a compelling story and enhance our brand identity.

What We Look For:

• Experience: Previous design experience through coursework, internships, freelance work, and/or personal projects.
• Design Skills: Proficient in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or InDesign). Familiarity of AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other emerging creative tools is a plus. Jira experience is preferred but not required. 
• Portfolio: A strong portfolio showcasing visual design skills and the ability to bring ideas to life across a variety of digital formats. Work should demonstrate thoughtful use of typography, UI elements, icons, and graphic elements across projects such as emails, in-app experiences, landing pages, web, or other marketing assets.
• Creativity: A keen eye for aesthetics, typography, and composition, with a passion for creating engaging and visually striking designs.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to clearly share ideas, ask questions, and take constructive feedback and iterate quickly.
• Detail-Oriented: Strong attention to detail, with a commitment to delivering high-quality work.
• Adaptability: Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple projects, and adapt to changing priorities.
• Education: Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field, or able to demonstrate equivalent skills through a strong portfolio.
• Demonstrated experience working with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required; candidates must be comfortable leveraging AI to enhance productivity, research, and communication.

About You:

• You have relentlessly high standards – you strive for excellence and ensure issues are fixed right the first time. Many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You're not bound by convention – you enjoy innovating and improving processes, and your success and much of the fun lies in developing new ways to do things.
• You need action – speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking. You're not afraid of taking calculated risks.
• You earn trust – you communicate clearly and treat others with respect. You listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit – you advocate for the right decisions, even when it's tough. You can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results – you focus on impact and deliver high-quality outcomes despite setbacks. You focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome:

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators. We believe in surrounding ourselves with only the best and the brightest individuals. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

Compensation: The salary for the Graphic Design Intern is $800 USD monthly as an independent contractor.

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