About Us
With over 85 million global active users and 2 million transactions per day, Klarna is on the way to becoming the world’s favorite way to shop. To help us get there, we’re assembling an unparalleled global talent team—accelerating individual careers, and disrupting entire industries. We’re looking for people ready to achieve the extraordinary and embrace our bold ambitions as we shape the future of payments and fintech. Will you join us?

Who you are
Klarna is looking for an ambitious person with significant drive. You should be passionate about your work and enjoy a fast paced international working environment. You’ll play an important role in taking Klarna to the next level, going above and beyond to produce world class design and daring to challenge the status quo.

Who we are

The Brand Design team is in charge of evolving, developing and maintaining Klarna’s visual identity at the highest level.

About the role

Our brand creatives play a fundamental role in the strategy, conception, and design of Klarna’s ideas and products. Bringing exceptional creative thought and well-crafted execution to projects, they shape groundbreaking brand experiences and possess expert knowledge of innovative communication trends. As part of the Brand Design team, you’ll be working alongside other designers, copywriters, product marketers, marketing managers, PR specialists, and strategists. This role requires you to seamlessly integrate brand design into product design to create a unified brand experience.

What you’ll do

• Build the design foundation for the Klarna brand from a B2C, B2B and product perspective.

• Collaborate closely with the Product team, serving as the key liaison to ensure seamless integration and alignment between Brand and Product initiatives

• Approach the brand in a holistic, multi-disciplinary way, always taking art direction, design, and physical and digital environments into account.

• Develop brand guidelines, scaling solutions that can be implemented by other designers and marketeers.

• Lead design executions throughout all project phases, across a broad range of print, digital and physical touchpoints.

• Collaborate with designers, creatives and art directors in other teams to challenge and create compelling design work.

• Ensure brand consistency through effective guidance, and implement relevant feedback from other teams with a positive attitude.

• Conceptualize design ideas and provide clear reasoning behind them.

• Put together presentations to pitch your ideas to stakeholders (including non-creatives) in an engaging, convincing manner.

You must

• Offer a minimum of 5+ of proven experience—preferably from branding/design studios and (or) product design roles (within a brand) —and show a strong portfolio that showcases how the brand comes to life through digital channels and products.

• Possess a structured, systematic working approach.

• Bring ideation experience and be able to conceptualize strong, impactful ideas that translate into top digital touchpoints. Our creatives are expected to bring a multitude of smart ideas to the table.

• Ability to work extremely collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment with product leads/designer, art directors, copywriters, motion designers and brand strategists, project managers, to create compelling brand experiences.

• Bring a forward-leaning and humble attitude, going above and beyond to deliver the best ideas and refining those of others. You love to get your hands dirty and translate high level strategy into well-crafted execution.

• Work quickly within a fast-paced environment and remain focused under pressure without compromising on quality.

• Articulate and present concepts and solutions in an engaging manner to internal stakeholders. You know how to sell a pitch, both storytelling-wise and via presentations.

• Have a curious personality that embraces AI, new challenges, seeks out ways of improving processes and inspires new ways of thinking.

• Possess exceptional English-language skills in both written and oral communication.

• Feel comfortable working across G-suite (including Google Slides, Docs and Sheets.)

• Have a strong proficiency in graphic design software (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, etc.) Motion or 3D skills are a huge plus.

• Stay up-to-date with industry developments and new tools.

Role application requirements

We offer you a diversely international working environment, filled with talented, creative and intelligent colleagues. As an employee at one of the fastest growing companies in online payments and e-commerce worldwide, you’ll play an important role in taking Klarna to the next level. If this sounds as exciting to you as it does to us, we look forward to hearing from you.

Note: A portfolio highlighting your direct contributions is an essential element of the application for a design role at Klarna. Applicants who don’t provide a link or PDF with work samples unfortunately won’t be considered.


Closing

Please include a CV in English.

Department

Marketing

Locations

Stockholm, Sweden

Employment type

Full-time