Marketing and Communications Intern (Colombia)

Title: Marketing Communications Intern 

Location: Bogota, Colombia / Remote 

Hiring Manager: Alice Zieska

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, SMS, and app channels helping maximize KPIs. In addition to execution, as a content marketer, you will help to build content to support channel optimization, persona identification, segmentation and analytics via all channels. 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 engagement with Sezzle and our merchant partners. In addition, you will be responsible for some content marketing and strategy—elevating current holistic campaigns, copywriting, automations, 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 are 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 varying retailers both online and in store. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the thousands of 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 we hire. 

Responsibilities:

Assist with day-to-day asset production flow including, but not limited to, asset & CRM build, quality assurance, approvals, deployment, communication with internal and external stakeholders, and analytics reporting.

• Assist with recommendations on optimizing future campaigns through performance reports.
• Support day-to-day operations keeping all marketing initiatives up to date.
• Assist with marketing communication builds within our CRM platform (Braze).
• Manage the compliance and legal approval of assets both internally and externally. 
• Identify potential project risks and provide recommendations for mitigating them efficiently.
• Maintain and organize project documentation, including meeting notes, schedules, reports, and all final assets.
• Assist client and sales teams with in-app promotional set up and reporting.
• Initiate data pulls and manage analytics surrounding varying campaigns.

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 project management skills.
• 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 with Braze is preferred.
• Additional experience working with email, push notifications, in-app push notifications, MSS, 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.