Art Director

Stripe; Ciudad de México; Presencial; MXN 700.000 - 950.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Stripe is seeking a senior designer/arts director in Mexico City to join its Creative Design team within the Stripe Delivery Center, shaping global campaigns and brand storytelling. You will drive design systems, mentor peers, and collaborate with marketers, product managers, and cross-functional partners to deliver pixel-perfect visuals across platforms.

You should have 6–10 years of design and art direction experience, strong Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud skills, and a passion for scalable,

Formación

• 6–10 years of relevant design and art direction experience.
• Strong track record of independently delivering high-quality work and influencing others.
• Proficiency in Figma, Canva, and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite (motion and statics).
• Experience managing or mentoring a team of designers.
• Ability to express and communicate a brand through graphics, patterns, motion, interaction, and experiences.

Responsabilidades

• Ideate, design, and produce world-class design solutions—static and motion—across presentations, posters, brand art, and signage.
• Steward designers through large-scale projects, providing art direction and guidance on strategy and localization.
• Work across mediums to create immersive storytelling and content that brings Stripe's brand and product stories to life.
• Bring concepts to life through storyboarding, comps, and presentations, iterating from feedback.
• Collaborate with copywriters, designers, marketers, and cross-functional partners to develop visionary concepts for a global audience.
• Mentor designers in best practices and ideation, fostering growth within the team.
• Present ideas clearly to build consensus within the team and with stakeholders.
• Identify and implement process improvements through automation and AI to enhance design quality.

Conocimientos

Design

Art direction

Storytelling

Collaboration

Branding

Presentation design

Mentoring

Herramientas

Figma

Canva

Adobe Creative Cloud

Descripción del empleo

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Stripe is investing in building out its Creative Design team within the Stripe Delivery Center (SDC) to reach users across the globe. The team designs comprehensive ad campaigns tailored for various platforms, ensuring that every visual element aligns with our marketing goals and engages our audience effectively. We create net-new creative content and localize and adapt our work to meet the unique cultural and linguistic needs of different regions, presenting our message effectively in global languages.

In addition to advertising and web content, we produce high-quality designs for presentations and collateral aimed at large users and executive audiences. Our designs enhance the clarity and impact of our messages, making complex information accessible and engaging—whether for a client pitch or an executive strategy session.

What you'll do

Designers at Stripe's SDC bring a passion for captivating storytelling and great design. They use design systems to tell compelling stories to a variety of audiences, and are well-versed at expanding, evolving, defining, and documenting flexible design systems that achieve bar-raising quality and consistency for the brand at scale. They are user-focused, business-savvy, 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 cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Ideate, design, and produce world-class design solutions—both static and motion—across a range of deliverables including presentations, posters, brand art, and signage.
• Steward designers through large-scale projects, providing art direction and ongoing guidance on creative strategy, execution, and localization.
• Work across a wide variety of mediums (physical, digital, and everything in between) to create immersive storytelling and creative content that brings Stripe's brand and product stories to life.
• Bring design concepts to life through storyboarding, comps, and creative presentations, iterating based on stakeholder feedback and internal testing.
• Collaborate with copywriters, static and motion designers, marketers, and ad operations to develop visionary concepts that engage a global audience.
• Mentor designers in best practices and ideation, fostering an environment where everyone learns and grows.
• Present ideas in a clear, focused way that builds consensus within the team and with stakeholders.
• Proactively identify and implement process improvements through automation and AI integration to enhance design quality and efficiency.

Requirements

• 6–10 years of relevant design and art direction experience, with a focus on technical or product-driven companies.
• Strong track record of independently delivering high-quality work and influencing the output of other designers and cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in Figma, Canva, and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite (motion and statics).
• Experience managing or mentoring a team of designers.
• Ability to express and communicate a brand through distinct graphics, patterns, motion, interaction, and experiences.
• A hands-on maker with the skills to effectively communicate concepts, direction, and decisions to teams and external partners.
• Ability to balance speed and quality, consistently delivering challenging, interesting, and pixel-perfect work.
• Persuasive and receptive to feedback; able to clearly explain work, process, and decisions.
• Comfortable working flexible hours, including late evenings (IST), to collaborate in real time with global stakeholders.
• Highly detail-oriented, with a drive for pixel-perfect craft.

Preferred Qualifications

• Multidisciplinary creative comfortable working across different mediums and excited about experimenting with new technologies.
• Prior people management experience, with a track record of hiring, developing, and growing design talent.
• Experienced at facilitating stakeholder alignment and advocating for design quality.