Senior Brand Designer — Creative Lab & Brand Studio

Design Better Podcast; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe Creative Lab is seeking a senior creative leader to shape brand narratives and direct multidisciplinary teams across digital and physical experiences. The role demands bold concepting, strategic thinking, and hands-on craft to elevate Stripe’s brand storytelling in campaigns and activations.

You will mentor designers, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and translate ambiguous briefs into compelling visuals and experiences that resonate globally.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant creative experience in concepting and delivering ideas.
• Experience creating and directing experimental work across a variety of mediums, disciplines, and collaborators.
• Strong track record independently delivering work as well as influencing the work of other designers, contractors, and agencies.
• A strong strategic acumen for building leading brands in a fast paced, global facing environment.
• Exceptional craft.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional conceptual thinking and art direction across a range of formats and disciplines.
• Exceptional visual and cultural taste, with a broad frame of reference extending beyond design.

Responsibilities

• Be an adamant maker that is genuinely curious, experimental, and loves to tinker, iterate quickly, and innovate on ideas, narrative, and making beautiful things
• Creative vision: Design execution and quality of ideas work in equal partnership
• Collaborate with like-minded creative people who have radically different skill sets and together create ideas that envision an optimistic, progressive future
• Help shape the strategic vision for design that pushes the boundaries of the brand and build awareness for what we do and why it’s important to Stripe
• Partner widely with cross-functional teams to build upon great ideas through making things
• Give and solicit feedback from wide range of teammates, agency partners, and stakeholders
• Generate original, conceptually strong ideas from ambiguous briefs, strategic problems, cultural observations, and emerging opportunities
• Determine the right form for an idea, then direct multidisciplinary collaborators to bring it to life across a wide range of mediums
• Develop clear creative narratives, pitches, references, treatments, and prototypes that make an idea compelling before its final execution is known

Skills

8+ years experience

Experimental work

Leadership influence

Brand strategy

Craft excellence

Portfolio showcase

Visual taste

Tools

AI tools

Creative tools

Job description

Stripe Creative Lab is seeking a senior creative leader to shape brand narratives and direct multidisciplinary teams across digital and physical experiences. The role demands bold concepting, strategic thinking, and hands-on craft to elevate Stripe’s brand storytelling in campaigns and activations.

You will mentor designers, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and translate ambiguous briefs into compelling visuals and experiences that resonate globally.