Senior Marketing Designer

Self Financial•Austin, TX

19h•$88,000 - $131,000

About The Position

Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings. We're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve. Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Self Financial is looking for an experienced, brand-obsessed Senior Marketing Designer to join our cross-functional product marketing team. The right candidate will take the lead on representing and evolving our brand look and feel across a wide variety of touch points, both in print and digital formats to better expose and explain our product to millions of potential customers who are looking for a safe way to build their credit scores. You’ll get to know the look and tone of Self’s modern, customer-first brand and be an authority on how we present ourselves and speak to customers. You’ll interpret feedback on performance of creative and participate in user testing to deepen your understanding of the challenges our customers face. You’ll be a go-to resource when the brand expands into new, highly visible opportunities, delivering high quality executions and direction. Who you are Someone who loves design (the lo-fi, the hi-fi, and all the pixels in between). You enjoy creating, exploring, and thinking about “the big picture” for the customer, while balancing deadlines and competing priorities. You have a trained eye for visual balance, and you’re not afraid to color outside the lines. You’re someone who has a favorite font (or two, or ten), and can list out the reasons why. Most importantly, you seek out feedback, and use it as a tool to improve.

Requirements

5+ years of experience with Marketing Design.
Experience with using, developing (and enforcing) brand guidelines.
Experience with print as well as digital design, and a willingness to dive into media you’ve never worked in before.
Extensive knowledge of modern branding and best practices.
A highly collaborative and curious attitude, and the ability to give and receive constructive feedback.
A desire to multitask and wear many hats autonomously.
An ability to genuinely empathize with customers and extrapolate what will serve them best.

Nice To Haves

Video/animation experience a plus

Responsibilities

Work with multiple teams, internal and external, to ensure consistency of message and visuals that you help develop.
Develop internal materials and tools to keep the brand presence uniform and clear.
Be a positive force on the design team that treats all parts of the business as clients, offering guidance as well as high quality work.
Think outside the box and champion insightful, empathy-driven design.
Become an authority on our look, feel and tone to maintain a high level of consistency throughout all of Self’s platforms and products.
Understand and champion our customers, always.
Impact real people's lives in a meaningful way.