Staff Brand Designer, Creative Lab

Stripe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 316,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401k

Health benefits

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Stripe Creative Lab seeks a senior designer with a distinguished track record in concepting and delivering ideas across mediums. You will lead creative execution, shape brand narratives, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to push the boundaries of the Stripe brand.

Bring 8+ years of creative experience, exceptional craft, and a strategic eye for branding in a fast-paced, global environment. Equity, health benefits, and a vibrant in-office culture await.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant creative experience in concepting and delivering ideas.
• Experience creating and directing experimental work across a variety of mediums and collaborators.
• Strong track record delivering work independently and influencing others.
• Strategic acumen for building leading brands in a fast-paced global environment.
• Exceptional craft and a portfolio showing conceptual thinking and art direction.

Responsibilities

• Be an adamant maker, curious and experimental, iterating quickly on ideas.
• Own creative vision; ensure design execution matches the ideas.
• Collaborate with diverse teams to shape ideas that envision a progressive future.
• Shape strategic design vision that expands brand awareness for Stripe.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams to build on ideas through making.
• Give and solicit feedback from teammates and stakeholders.
• Develop clear narratives, treatments, and prototypes for compelling concepts.

Skills

Creative leadership

Brand strategy

Art direction

Concept ideation

Cross-functional collaboration

Narrative development

Creative craft

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.

Who we are

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 team works on a variety of brand‑centric projects for Stripe, from our brand standards to campaigns, events, IRL experiences, packaging, digital products, and even printed publications. The brand designers on this team are multidisciplinary in nature, able to design robust visual systems, art direction, and craft surfaces that focus on brand and product storytelling.

Collaborating with other teams at Stripe, as well as external partners, we raise the quality and consistency of experiences with the Stripe brand IRL, virtually, and everywhere in between. We craft the creative vision and strategy for different types of projects and audiences, and amplify them across various mediums, channels, objects to environments, and digital and physical experiences.

About Stripe Creative Lab

Stripe Creative Lab aims to create breakthrough, culturally resonant, and exquisitely crafted projects that reveal Stripe’s magic in surprising ways. We dedicate ourselves to meticulously crafting the work to ensure the highest possible creative quality. The work is experimental, often starts with ambiguous briefs and requires finding a way where others might deem it impossible. We are making it up as we go, and that’s the way we love to work.

What you’ll do

You’ll be joining a highly creative team that spans the gamut of creative execution, from digital experiences (like interactive games or live‑streaming a handbuilt, miniature city) to physical activations (like retrofitting CRT monitors or retired MTA ticketing machines) and beyond. The work is highly experimental, idea‑driven, and very collaborative.

The work starts with ideas. Your ability to generate original and interesting concepts is foundational, as is your ability to find the right form for them and bring them to life, both with your own hands and through close collaboration with people across a wide range of disciplines.

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

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

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Are genuinely curious, ambitious and creative with a refreshing sense of design, art, technology, and culture
• Are persuasive and humble in explaining your work, process, and decisions and experienced at facilitating stakeholders to advance the project as well as design quality
• 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 do the same)
• Have experience working in or alongside highly conceptual advertising, design, or cultural studios
• Experience working with cross functional partners
• Proficient in the latest AI and creative tools
• 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 $210,400 - $315,600. 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.

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.