Creative Director, Event Design

Stripe; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 214,000 - 322,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe seeks a Creative Director, Event Design, to lead a talented team and define the creative direction for all event and experience design. You will partner with marketers, brand leaders, producers, and executives to ensure cohesive, on-brand experiences that reflect Stripe’s mission and scale.

You will steer high-profile projects globally, maintain design standards, and mentor designers to grow their craft while delivering world-class events on schedule and within budget.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of design experience with 3+ years leading teams.
• Proven direction of brand design and experiences at global scale.
• Strong leadership to manage performance and growth of designers.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of designers in brand and experiential work.
• Own creative direction for event design output and activations.
• Collaborate with leadership to define strategic creative vision for Stripe’s presence.

Skills

Leadership

Experiential design

Brand design

Event design systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive presenting

Figma

Keynote

Adobe Creative Cloud

AI tools

Education

Bachelor or higher in Design or related field

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Keynote

AI tools

Job description

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

Brand Studio lays the foundations that help Stripe accelerate. We do this by creating, evolving, and maintaining Stripe's high‑quality, versatile, and forward‑looking brand design systems, experiences, and advertising campaigns. We sweat the details. We make it seem effortless. The Experiential team is responsible for bringing Stripe's brand to life in the real world—from flagship events and industry conferences to internal summits and curated partner experiences. This is a team that operates at the intersection of creativity, strategy, and production.

What you'll do

As Creative Director, Event Design, you will lead a team of talented designers and set the creative direction for all of Stripe's event and experience design. You are an inspiring leader and a sharp creative director—someone who can zoom out to define a cohesive creative vision, and zoom in to give precise, actionable feedback. You partner closely with event marketers, brand leaders, producers, and executive stakeholders to ensure every Stripe experience is cohesive, intentional, and unmistakably on‑brand. You care deeply about your team's craft, their growth, and the culture they work within.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of brand and experiential designers—setting clear expectations, fostering a culture of craft, and creating an environment where designers do their best work
• Own the creative direction for Stripe's experiential design output: event design systems, digital and environmental graphics, keynote design concepting, and brand activations
• Partner with the Experiential Creative Director and Brand Studio leadership to define the strategic creative vision for how Stripe shows up in the world
• Champion creative quality—establish and maintain a high bar across all deliverables, from concept through execution
• Build and evolve Stripe's experiential design system: scalable standards, templates, and creative frameworks that work globally across teams and events
• Oversee relationships with external agencies, contractors, production studios, and vendor partners—aligning on creative direction and ensuring quality delivery
• Collaborate cross-functionally with corporate events and product marketing, product design, brand design, and executive communications teams
• Recruit, hire, and onboard design talent to build out the team as the function grows
• Develop direct reports through regular 1:1s, structured feedback, career development conversations, and thoughtful performance calibration
• Represent the Experiential design function in leadership forums and cross-functional planning processes

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant design experience, including 3+ years managing and growing a team of designers
• Proven track record of creative direction for high-profile brand design and experiences, and events at a global scale
• Strong people leadership skills—you have developed design talent, navigated performance challenges, and built healthy, high-output teams
• Deep understanding of experiential design: environmental graphics, stage and scenic design, digital/physical brand integration, wayfinding, and event identity systems
• Ability to design and art direct across a wide range of surface areas (digital, physical, motion, communication) and tooling (Figma, Keynote, Adobe Creative Cloud, and AI tools)
• Strong executive presence—you can present and defend creative decisions to senior leaders with confidence and clarity
• Ability to simultaneously manage creative quality and team health—you know when to coach, when to redirect, and when to roll up your sleeves
• Systems-thinking approach with a track record of building scalable creative frameworks and extending shared patterns across a global brand
• Experience managing agency relationships and large-scale external production partners
• Strong track record of influencing without authority across marketing, product, and executive stakeholders
• Ability to balance creative ambition and operational rigor, consistently shipping world-class work on deadline and on budget
• Persuasive and humble, with a drive to seek feedback, and model the creative and collaborative behaviors that make great teams
• Excellent communication and presentation skills—equally comfortable writing a creative brief and presenting work to a range of stakeholders
• Highly detail-oriented, with a drive for perfection in every experience you ship
• Passionate about Stripe's mission, dedicated to a user‑first mindset, and grounded in data and business context

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

In‑office expectations

Office‑assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in‑person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on‑sites, meet‑ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $214,400 - $321,600. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

Our culture and values

We look forward to hearing from you.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.

Application window

The application window will remain open for 100 days after the Job Post is published. However, this opportunity will remain open based on the needs of the business, which may cause the application window to close before or after the 100‑day mark.