Are you a seasoned digital designer, driven by ”getting stuff done, well”?  Excited to grow with the business and step up in a leading role when the design team gets bigger? If yes, join our fin-tech scale-up as a full-time senior marketing designer. 

Investing is important but hard. It takes time to learn and manage. Selma is the friendly personal investment assistant that helps you do the right thing with your money.  We are a remote-first team based mainly in Helsinki and Zürich. Our clients enjoy Selma (Swiss Google rating 4,8 ⭐️ (250+), 02/22) and our team of 20 is passionate about providing great customer experience.

Your future team?

This position is best suited for a confident designer. If you are looking to advance in your career, take ownership and make impactful design decisions – join our crew! 😎

Our marketing team of 4 is a creative bunch of acquisition, engagement, copy and community talents. As the Senior marketing designer, you are the go-to person for all things design – prioritisation, creative thinking, finding the optimal solutions for the job, making top-of-the-class assets, managing outsourced productions and carrying projects efficiently from start to finish. Your daily work is a healthy mix of collaboration, delivery, operations and design thinking.

Your “home base” is Selma’s design team. Head of Design and Senior UX/UI designer is here to provide you with guidance and peer support. The design team’s shared responsibility is to mature, polish and shepherd the Selma brand – making the product look lovely and consistent across all touch points. We value smooth DesignOps and provide team and partners progress updates, access to well-maintained libraries and easy “DIY”-tools and templates. 

Your skills & experience

• Visual craftsmanship: professional graphic design and storytelling skills

  In-house, we work with e.g. online ads, product mockups, vector and pixel art, photo and video editing, SoMe posts and stories, OOH and swag. We also outsource projects as needed.

• Mastery with design tools and ability to pick up new methods quickly

  We use Adobe, Canva, Figma, plugins and any other tools relevant for the task.

• Comfort with designing for consistency and scale

  We build towards reusable templates and assets libraries, and guide our team how to use them. 

• Track record of creating promotional and engagement content and campaigns for digital services.

  We work with bread & butter channels (e.g. banner ads, blog, LinkedIn, Facebook) and like to experiment (OOH, TikTok, IG reels)

Appreciated

• Passion to get the job done well – with the optimal creative solution and effort

• Competence to prioritise and self-manage your work and schedule

• Preference to work side-by-side with the team, get feedback often and iterate fast 

• Ability to carry out brand thoughtfully and elegantly at every touchpoint

• Calm endeavour that helps you to carry design thru from raw ideas to execution

• Courage to learn about finance, untangle abstract challenges and ask questions 

You will get

• A unique opportunity to scale a fintech startup with a passionate, client-centric team

• Involvement in our strategic design decisions

• Ability to work remotely

• A competitive salary package (4’400 – 4’800€) with a sizeable options component

• Full trust to manage your own work and schedule

• Support and resources for you to work productively and to excel in your role

• A team that loves to think outside the box and demystify finance and investing

• Properly fun retreats with our lovely Selma crew, including dinners, treasure hunts and spontaneous padel matches.

Think we might make a match?

Lovely! To start, contact our team. Please share your LinkedIn, portfolio and why this position interests you. 😊

Here's is how the hiring process works:

1. Introduction chat with Head of Design

   We’ll talk about your experience, portfolio and expectations for this position – and you can ask everything you want about Selma!

2. Chat with the marketing team

   Get to know the people and the work in a relaxed call.

3. Co-design exercise

   Top few candidates will be invited for a co-design exercise. Together with the marketing team, you will be solving a real-life design challenge. From you, this will take around 2-3 hours in preparations and a follow-up sync with the Head of Design. We’ll set a suitable schedule together! :)

4. A final talk

   Let's bring our CEO to the table and have the final talk about you starting at Selma.

What’s Selma like?

Our team appreciates skill over hierarchy, ideas over egos and experiments over guesswork. We have followed a customer-centred business philosophy since the start. This means everyone in our team strives for providing a great client experience. In practice, this means a visible stream of customer #feedback, open roadmap, high copywriting standards and more!

The Selma team includes folks from Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Ukraine, Vietnam, Nepal and Romania. Remote and transparent work is in our backbone; we arrange every meeting remotely-first and share plans, meeting notes and all of the sort in the company chat &  infra.