Staff Brand Designer, Creative Lab

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

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

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. 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