Senior Brand Designer, Link

Stripe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Stripe is building its first consumer brand through the Link team. We are seeking a senior designer with a strong background in brand design and art direction to craft robust visual systems that tell compelling stories across surfaces.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to push the boundaries of craft and beauty while maintaining consistency and high standards. The role emphasizes hands-on design, system thinking, and experimentation, with in-office collaboration and a focus on

Qualifications

• 5+ years of design and art direction experience for technical and product-driven companies.
• Strong typography skills and hands-on making/iterating of visual design work.
• Proven ability to influence other designers, contractors, and agencies.

Responsibilities

• Be an adamant maker who is curious, experimental, and loves to tinker and iterate quickly.
• Raise the team’s standards and craft through clarity and consistency of your work.
• Elevate a brand system that is flexible across surfaces and aligns with Stripe’s craft & beauty.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop ideas and bring them to life.
• Partner with stakeholders to build on great ideas through making tangible work.
• Give and solicit feedback from a wide range of teammates.

Skills

Brand design

Art direction

Typography

AI experimentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Keynote

Google Slides

Job description

About Stripe & Link

At Stripe, we’ve spent the last 15 years building financial infrastructure for the internet, serving millions of people and businesses worldwide. Our flagship consumer product, Link, makes online payments and digital transactions effortless and secure - the digital wallet for what’s next.

Who we are

At Stripe, we’ve spent the last 15 years building financial infrastructure for the internet, serving millions of people and businesses worldwide. Our flagship consumer product, Link, makes online payments and digital transactions effortless and secure - the digital wallet for what’s next.

This is a unique opportunity to continue building a standalone brand and introduce it to new global audiences. You’ll play a key role in making payments more personal and convenient while doing some of the most impactful work of your career.

About The Team

Sitting within Brand Studio, the Link team is building Stripe’s first consumer brand. We build, evolve, and maintain a versatile, forward-looking visual identity system and find clear, fresh ways to apply it across surfaces. The brand designers on our team are multidisciplinary: they design robust visual systems, lead art direction, and craft surfaces that prioritize brand and product storytelling.

Working with cross-functional teams across Stripe and external partners, we set the vision and execute to a high quality bar. Our work shows up IRL, online, and everywhere between.

What you’ll do

You’ll be joining a highly creative team that spans anywhere from developing storytelling to creating digital tools, brand systems to rapid ideation. The work is highly experimental, idea driven, and very collaborative and cross-functional.

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
• Contribute to raising the team's standards and culture of craft through the quality, clarity, and consistency of your own work
• Elevate and shape a brand system that is flexible enough to work across various surfaces and exemplifies Stripe’s commitment to craft & beauty
• Collaborate with like-minded creative people who have radically different skill sets and together create ideas that envision an optimistic, progressive future
• Partner widely with cross-functional teams to build upon great ideas through making things
• Give and solicit feedback from wide range of teammates and stakeholders

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant design and art direction experience for technical and product-driven companies
• Experience creating high-quality visual design work, with strong typography and a hands-on approach to making and iterating.
• Strong track record of independently delivering work as well as influencing the work of other designers, contractors, and agencies
• Experience applying and evolving a brand in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Keynote, and Google slides
• Demonstrated experimentation with AI tools to both generate ideas, get stakeholders to see where an idea is headed, and to scale design
• Exceptional craft

Preferred Qualifications

• Curiosity, ambition, and a distinct point of view on design, with strong typography skills and an appreciation for creative process, technology, and design engineering.
• Are persuasive and humble in explaining your work, process, and decisions
• Have excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication
• Love working with other designers to help them learn and grow—and invite them to help you learn and grow
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams.
• Creative coding or creative technologist background is a nice to have

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $175,200 - $262,800. 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.

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.