Brand Designer

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

The Brand and Marketing Creative 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. 

What you’ll do

You will be joining a growing design team and discipline responsible for creating, maintaining, and evolving visual design guidelines for the Stripe brand.

Responsibilities

• Communicate the value and functionality of Stripe in design, icons, typography, color, and illustration
• Create and manage asset libraries for reusable, systematic design
• Help shape the strategic vision and goals for the Brand design team
• Strategize and design for high-profile in product marketing campaigns and presentations
• Partner with product and website teams to define the visual design strategy for various branded surfaces and work with other leads and cross-functional partners to drive consensus across teams
• Give and solicit feedback from designers and cross-disciplinary partners
• Work cross-functionally to define, design and deliver templates and collateral for our marketing, sales, and support teams
• Work with regional partner teams to improve our visual design quality in local markets

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

• 6+ years of relevant design and art direction experience for technical and product-driven companies 
• Experience working on a variety of brand projects that exemplify expertise in designing brand systems, art direction, identity and/or iconography design
• 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
• Proficient in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Keynote, and Microsoft Office products

Preferred qualifications

• Are a multidisciplinary creative with a wide skill set and comfortable working across different mediums and crafts; excited about experimenting with new technologies; have excellent sense for typography
• Are a systems-thinker and excel at building and extending design systems through experiential mediums
• 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 learn and grow
• Experience working (collaboration and facilitation) with cross functional partners