Title: Marketing Communications Intern 

Location: Minneapolis, MN or remote

About the Role: 

As a MarComm Intern, you will play a critical support role with responsibility for preparing and executing key marketing campaigns. A core focus will be learning and managing email, push and app channels helping maximize KPIs. In addition to execution, as a content marketer, you will help to build content and copy to support channel optimization, persona identification, segmentation and analytics via email and app. To achieve these goals, you will engage with varying members across the marketing department. 

The primary aim for this role is to help create relevant, customized and personalized content for our Sezzle consumers and merchants, to maximize revenue and engagement. In the process, you will also be looking for a variety of ways to increase traffic to Sezzle and our merchant partners. In addition, you will be responsible for some content marketing and strategy—elevating current holistic email campaigns, copywriting, email automation, merchant curation, data/analytics, etc. 

In the Sezzle universe, work is extremely fast-paced. We seek to make an impact by innovating the payment landscape with employees who have a strong bias for action and thrive in ambiguity. As a result, roles are constantly evolving, and there’s plenty of exciting opportunities for career progression. The Marketing department has big dreams and the motivation to make them happen, so we’re looking for adaptable, customer-centric superstars who can roll up their sleeves and help us find the right solutions. We are a tight-knit team that supports and inspires each other every day to individually and collectively make a difference. 

About Sezzle:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose 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.

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 are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. 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. 

Responsibilities:

• Assist with managing email and marketing performance reports, analyze data and make recommendations on optimizing future campaigns.
• Assist with day-to-day email production flow including, but not limited to, email design, email creation, quality assurance, deployment, and communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist with copywriting and editing of highly engaging email and push notification content.
• Assist with marketing communication builds within our CRM platform (Braze).
• Assist with administrative organizing and tracking of go-to-market content schedules and results.
• Assist client and sales teams with in-app promotional set up and reporting.

Ideal Skills & Experience:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Attention to detail is a must. There are plenty of moving parts within this role.
• Basic creative design skill and knowledge in Figma is preferred.
• Experience in copywriting short and engaging messages.
• Experience leveraging data inputs to create segments, design tests, execute reporting and provide insights.
• Database marketing experience is a plus.
• Prior experience working with email marketing is preferred.
• Prior experience with Braze is preferred.
• Additional experience working with push notifications, in-app push notifications, eCommerce or digital marketing is preferred.

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. 
• Eager to learn. There are lots of opportunities and we want you to experience them all. 
• An excellent communicator. 
• Act like an owner. You aren’t afraid to take on new responsibilities and you act like an owner in everything you do.
• 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. 

Sezzle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Sezzle recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting our mission.

Compensation

The compensation range for the role is $18 - 22 / hour. Our ranges are very broad to accommodate all types of candidates and encourage growth. Specific compensation offered to a candidate may be dependent on factors such as education, experience, qualifications, and alignment with market data. Exceptional candidates may receive salaries outside of the posted ranges.

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