Marketing and Communications Intern

Sezzle; United States; Remote; USD 8,000 - 9,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Sezzle is seeking a Marketing and Communications Intern who excels in a fast-paced fintech environment. You will support campaigns across email, push, SMS, and in-app channels while helping to build content, identify segments, and analyze results to maximize KPIs.

You will collaborate with marketing, sales, and product teams, manage asset workflows, ensure brand and legal compliance, and leverage Braze and Claude AI tools to boost productivity and insights.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• 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.
• Experience with email, push notifications, in-app push notifications, MSS, eCommerce or digital marketing is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required; comfortable leveraging AI to enhance productivity, research, and communication.

Responsibilities

• Assist with day-to-day asset production flow including asset & CRM build, QA, approvals, deployment, communication with internal and external stakeholders, and analytics reporting.
• Recommend optimization ideas for future campaigns based on performance reports.
• Support day-to-day operations keeping all marketing initiatives up to date.
• Assist CRM builds within Braze.
• Manage the compliance and legal approval of assets both internally and externally.
• Identify potential project risks and provide mitigation recommendations.
• Maintain and organize project documentation, including meeting notes and schedules.
• Assist client and sales teams with in-app promotional setup and reporting.
• Initiate data pulls and manage analytics for varying campaigns.

Skills

Excellent communication

Project management

Copywriting

Data segmentation

AI tools (Claude)

Email marketing

Push notifications

In-app messages

Figma

Tools

Braze

Figma

Job description

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:

We are seeking a talented and motivated Marketing and Communications Intern who is best in class with a high IQ plus 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.

As a Marketing and Communications 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.

What You’ll Do:

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.

What We Look For:

• 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.
• 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 - 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 - 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 earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - 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 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 Marketing and Communications Intern is $800 USD monthly gross as an independent contractor.

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Pay Range

$800—$800 USD