Design Director, Stripe
Experiential
$206.9-310.3k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$206.9-310.3k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- Have 8+ years of relevant design and art direction experience for technical and product-driven companies
- Have a strong strategic acumen for building brand experiences in a fast paced, global facing environment
- Can design across a wide range of surface areas (Digital, Physical, Communication, Motion, etc) and tooling (Figma, Keynote, Adobe Creative Cloud, and AI (Midjourney, Chat GPT, etc.))
- Are a systems-thinker and excel at extrapolating and extending shared patterns and behaviors
- Proven excellence in effective creative direction, and building and extending design systems
- Have the ability to express and communicate a brand through distinct graphics, patterns, motion, interaction, and experiences
- Are a hands-on maker, with the skills to effectively communicate concepts, direction and decisions with the team and with external partners
- Strong track record delivering work independently and through others, as well as influencing the work of other internal teams and partners
- Find a meaningful balance between optimizing for speed, quality, and doing challenging, interesting, pixel-perfect work
- Are persuasive and humble in explaining your work, process, and decisions and crave feedback to help you design at your best
- Love working with other designers to help them learn and grow—and have them help you learn and grow
- Have excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication
- Highly detail-oriented, with a drive for perfection down to the last pixel
- Are passionate about Stripe’s mission, are dedicated to a user-first mindset, and have experience working with data & insights
What the job involves
- Brand Studio Designers at Stripe demonstrate a passion for captivating storytelling and great design
- They use design systems to help tell compelling stories to a variety of audiences, and are well-versed at expanding, evolving, defining, and documenting flexible design systems and experiences that achieve bar-raising quality and consistency for the brand at scale
- They are user-focused, have a strong understanding of the business, and are empathetic and inspiring
- The ideal candidate excels across a variety of styles, crisply articulates design decisions, iterates quickly, and collaborates seamlessly with marketers, product managers, leaders, other designers, and agency partners
- Lead design direction on all of Stripe’s internal event experiences
- Build beautiful and scalable approaches for brand experiences
- Support and collaborate with the Experiential Creative director, designers, event marketers and other cross-functional partners to serve a global audience
- Oversee the work of external teams in creative strategy, execution and production
- Help shape the strategic vision and goals for the team and for what experiences means at Stripe
- Inspire, by mentoring designers and partners in best practices, design process, and ideation
- Be an IC that can also steward designers through large scale design projects
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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