Creative designer

  • Overall description

 

Joining the Creative Team will be interesting for you if you’re excited by the potential to work with many different platforms/mediums and have a desire and hunger to constantly improve and innovate in these spaces. We have a physical hardware (made in Berlin), localized websites, mobile apps on iOS and Android, third-party integrations and a merchant-facing web app. The Creative Team in São Paulo, Brazil covers Brand and Communication Design with the big challenge of adapting a global brand to a highly-competitive brazilian market. Help us bring fair and affordable card acceptance to all the small business!



  • Objectives:

 

We’re looking for a Designer to help us in refining SumUp’s branding and communications on the path to becoming the first global card acceptance brand. You’ll analyse the market and trends, formulating concepts and strategies to reach our customers. You’ll work closely with our Marketing and Communications team to empower the branding throughout our digital platforms, such as: website, landing pages, hot sites related to our digital campaigns. From the perfect image to vibrant illustrations and everything in between, you’ll think big to reach our common goal.

 

  • Activities 
  • You are a design geek who loves graphic design;
  • You have experience working with existing brands as well as building brands from a clean slate;
  • You know how to develop and maintain a visual brand for companies and products;
  • You are experienced working across web, print, and marketing channels;
  • You have a clear thinking process when it comes to creating wireframes and designing web pages (no code knowledge required);
  • You are always striving to improve your craft;
  • You're comfortable balancing foundational design explorations with getting projects out the door and iterating fast;
  • You love working with different stakeholders in a company and providing creative insights to a talented team of creatives.

 

  • Requirements
    • English and Portuguese are mandatory
    • You have 4+ years experience as a Digital Designer;
    • You’re familiar with modern design tools and services;
    • Excellent communication and presentation skills which help you to communicate ideas and concepts with team members from a wide range of countries and cultures;
    • You have a strong design aesthetic - conceptual skills are a big plus;




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  • How to interview/tests (example of questions)
    • Screen interview: for cultural fit check + test english conversation skills

 

  • Who interviews
    • HR/Design team  - CV analysis/phone screen 
    • Design and Comms team (BR) - technical + cultural fit
    • Alex Dapunt - technical + cultural fit
    • Carlos Grieco + 1 board - cultural fit

 

  • Hunting Grounds
    • Proeminent Tech Startups in BR
    • Competitors
    • Digital Agencies