Product Designer, Stripe
Developer Platform & Extensibility
$160-240k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$160-240k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- Has 4+ years relevant design experience at a tech, product-driven company
- Has experience working on developer tools, working with developers—or even writing code yourself
- Has an understanding of developers, their needs, and an eagerness to learn about how we can help them integrate with Stripe
Desirable
- Has worked on app platforms/marketplaces in the past, and can dig into the nuances of different extensibility types (e.g allowing developers to embed directly within our own pages)
- Ability to reduce complex problems down to the right balance of flexibility, power, and ease of use, especially when explaining complicated developer experiences to non-technical stakeholders
- Understanding of the developer tooling landscape and what tools developers are using today—bonus points if you’ve used some of these tools yourself
- Have a deep curiosity (or excitement) about the developer space, and aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty in some code
- Are skilled in explaining your work, process, and decisions to cross-functional stakeholders and crave feedback to help you produce your best work
- Comfortable presenting work to senior stakeholders regularly
- Loves working with other designers to help them learn and grow—and have them help you learn and grow
- Are uncompromisingly service-minded towards our users and your colleagues, but able to set and achieve priorities that find the perfect balance between benefiting the project, the Design team, and all of Stripe
What the job involves
- The Product Design team is composed of several teams that work together to help define, create, and deliver all user-facing aspects of the Stripe brand and product
- Product Designers are strategic partners to Engineering and Product Management within a dedicated product area. In partnership with the product team, they help define the user-facing experiences our users encounter on Stripe products, then translate that thinking into a complete experience that can be tested, shipped, and refined
- They are responsible for creating well-functioning and beautiful products and experiences that users love and are eager to recommend to others
- Design industry-leading developer tools that push the boundaries beyond what’s already on the market
- Craft experiences that allow third-parties to extend directly into our dashboard, unlocking new ways of working on Stripe
- Make it easier for developers to build and test their integrations, as well as discover new Stripe products
- Turn ambiguous problems that our users are facing into concrete products, from proposal, to kick-off, vision, building, and launch—both for merchants and developers building on top of Stripe
- Shape the developer experience + extensibility roadmap by prototyping and pitching new ideas we haven’t even thought of yet, and gaining cross-functional buy-in
- Work closely with our partner teams, including Apps, Docs, Connect, and more, to create an end-to-end developer experience that feels coherent
- Advocate for extensibility internally, ensuring teams building into the dashboard understand the power it can unlock for our users
- Focus on what you do best—whether that’s sketches, wireframes, prototypes, designs, or code—you’ll have the opportunity to sharpen the skills you’re looking to develop
- Work in a highly collaborative fashion with the design, product, and project teams
- Partner closely with our user research team and support ongoing research projects
- Participate in design reviews and share your work regularly with design and company leadership
- Areas you could work on
- Our platform-wide extensibility strategy, which allows developers to build on top of Stripe to extend our functionality in new ways
- Stripe Apps, our app platform that allows developers extend directly into the dashboard and other surfaces, such as embedded apps and more
- Knitting our new set of developer experiences into a cohesive platform that helps developers make the most of Stripe’s tools and APIs
- The future of developer tools at Stripe, including Workbench, improvements to test mode, API upgrades, and new tools we haven’t even thought of yet
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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