Brand Designer

About Alma

At Alma, we believe sustainable commerce depends on fair, well‑balanced trade. Because finance plays a pivotal role in business, our mission is to put it back in its rightful place - serving merchants and consumers.

Our installment and deferred payment solutions help merchants boost sales by 20% or more, increase customer loyalty, and deliver a seamless shopping experience - without encouraging bad debt.

As the buy now pay later leader in France and active in 10 European countries, we’ve empowered over 21,000 merchants and 8 million consumers.

With 360+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe—and we’re just getting started.

Alma is the company for you if are looking for:

• Collective intelligence is the driving force behind Alma: we are looking for open-minded, curious, and ambitious people who want to actively participate in this exponential growth.
• Continue to deliver an optimal purchasing experience and absolute ease of use, all teams at Alma (Tech, Product, Sales, Operations, Data, Risk, Finance, Compliance, Legal, Marketing and People) will strengthen their members to maintain the highest standards of quality and trust while pushing these innovations at Alma’s pace.

Your mission

As a Brand Designer within the Brand team, you will be the driving force behind Alma's static (main responsibility) and animated visual storytelling (secondary responsibility) across all touchpoints. Your mission is to create compelling design and motion design content that brings our brand platform to life, engaging both merchants and consumers across Europe. With high operational excellence, you'll manage projects end-to-end, maintain clear stakeholder communication, and consistently deliver on time to meet ambitious deadlines.

As a business partner, you'll craft everything from sales/marketing decks, social media posts to event booths and white papers and brand campaigns

Through your expertise in design, layout and motion design, you'll build scalable systems that empower teams across Alma to communicate our value proposition with impact and consistency, establishing Alma as a visually distinctive leader in European fintech.

Main responsibilities

• Main responsibilities, 70%
  • Create static assets for the Creative Studio aligned with our brand platform, including sales/marketing decks, social media posts, event booths, white papers and brand campaigns. Collaborate closely with Revenue, Product, Marketing, and Operations teams to translate payment concepts and product features into clear, engaging visual narratives that drive conversion and adoption.
  • Plan, prioritize and execute projects with cross-functional stakeholders, managing freelance resources when needed within allocated budgets to meet ambitious delivery timelines.
  • Drive continuous improvement of our brand platform, proposing updates based on design trends, market insights, and performance data to keep Alma's visual identity fresh and competitive.
• Secondary responsibility, 30%
  • Create animated assets for the Creative Studio aligned with our brand platform, including 2D/3D motion design for B2B and B2C product videos, marketing ads, and brand campaigns. Collaborate closely with Revenue, Product, Marketing, and Operations teams to translate payment concepts and product features into clear, engaging visual narratives that drive conversion and adoption.

Your Skills

Hard skills

• Advanced design expertise in creation and layout on Figma, Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Intermediate motion design expertise in After Effects and 3D software (Blender or Cinema 4D) with a portfolio demonstrating sophisticated 2D and 3D animation work.
• Project and Operational Excellence: Proven experience managing creative projects with structured processes, meeting quality standards and deadlines
• Brand Platform mastery: High understanding of brand guidelines with ability to apply, adapt, and evolve the brand platform to align with strategic needs.
• Communication & Content Quality: Strong written and oral communication skills with attention to detail for all textual content (titles, subtitles, scripts, captions). Ability to produce polished, error-free deliverables that reflect brand standards.

Soft Skills

• Ownership and cross-functional project management: Takes initiative on cross-functional projects, drives completion of complex deliverables, and exemplifies company values.
• Insightful Stakeholder Communication: High ability to synthesize information, influence decisions through persuasive storytelling, and tailor messages to maximize engagement.
• Growth mindset: Sets ambitious goals, initiates rapid prototyping, and builds strong partnerships across functions.
• Customer-Centric Mindset: Using client insights and budgets to drive design decisions and align creative strategies with business goals.
• Curiosity and trends monitoring: Passionate about staying ahead of design trends and applying insights to keep Alma's brand competitive.

What would make you a good fit for this job?

• 4+ years of experience as a Brand Designer, with significant exposure to creative project management. (Within a large, fast-paced organization is a strong plus.)
• Proven track record delivering engaging content that aligns with brand guidelines and drives measurable business impact.
• Strong collaborative skills with ability to work effectively with Sales, Product, Marketing, Compliance, and Operations teams to deliver scalable and compliant B2B and B2C content.
• Experience in B2B/B2C, tech, consumer products, payments, or digital products is highly valued.
• Portfolio showcasing diverse design and motion design projects, brand system implementation.
• French native speaker with business-level English proficiency.
• On-site presence in Paris, with two remote working days each week.

Tool Stack

• Production for design: Figma, Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Production for Motion design: After Effects (expert level), Blender or Cinema 4D, Figma and Adobe.
• Project Management: Notion, Slack, Google Suite (Sheets, Docs, Slides)
• AI Tools (strong plus): Dust, Claude, Runway, Midjourney, Synthesia, ElevenLab

About The Recruitment Process

• Interview with Sara, Talent Acquisition Manager (30’)

• Interview with Antoine, Hiring Manager (60’)

• Case study presentation with Antoine (Hiring Manager) and Léa (Brand Designer) (60’)

• Team Assessment with Laura (CPO) and Léo (Lead Product Designer) (30’)

• Offer