Brand Designer

Art Director, Marketing Design

We believe there are too many barriers to doing business on the internet, and that opportunities are not equally distributed throughout the world. We also think building and growing a business online is a problem rooted in code, language, and design—not finance. 

Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet and expand economic access globally. We’re designing tools and infrastructure to help our users start, run, and scale an online business from anywhere in the world. That’s where you come in: we’re looking for a diverse set of designers of many disciplines, skills, backgrounds, and specialties to join our small (but growing!) Design team in San Francisco. 

Design at Stripe

The Design team works across most projects at Stripe—from our brand standards to campaigns, events, digital products, and even printed publications. And since Stripe’s main audience is other people who build products, we agonize over and take pride in crafting user-friendly and user-focused experiences.

The Brand Design team lays the foundations that help Stripe accelerate. We do this by creating, evolving, and maintaining Stripe’s high-quality, versatile, and forward-looking visual identity design system. We sweat the details. We make it seem effortless.

Our team—and our design efforts—are multipliers for Stripe and Stripes. Our focus on principles, systems, and standards makes it easier for all Stripes to get work done—at a high quality bar, while still creating space for evolution and innovation. Collaborating with other teams at Stripe, as well as select external partners, we raise the quality and consistency of interactions with the Stripe brand.

Brand Designers at Stripe demonstrate passion for great design and for expanding, evolving, defining, and documenting flexible design systems that achieve bar-raising quality and consistency for the brand at scale. The ideal candidate excels across a variety of styles, crisply articulates design decisions, iterates quickly, and collaborates seamlessly with marketers, product managers, leaders, other designers, and agency partners.

We believe there are too many barriers to doing business on the internet, and that opportunities are not equally distributed throughout the world. We also think building and growing a business online is a problem rooted in code, language, and design—not finance. 

Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet and expand economic access globally. We’re designing tools and infrastructure to help our users start, run, and scale an online business from anywhere in the world. That’s where you come in: we’re looking for a diverse set of creatives of many disciplines, skills, backgrounds, and specialties to join our small (but growing!) creative team at Stripe.

The Design organization works across most projects at Stripe—from campaigns to events, digital products, and even printed publications. And since Stripe’s main audience is other people who build products, we agonize over and take pride in crafting user-friendly and user-focused experiences.

Seeking:

• Art director, rooted in concept and ideation with a proven track record creating impactful campaigns for brand and demand generation advertising efforts
• Ability to conceive of and execute on advertising campaign ideas across a wide range of deliverables: online, social, motion, film, OOH, print and bespoke ideas that go beyond the expected
• Ability to ideate meaningful online and social creative with a mobile first mentality
• Ability to guide the visual tone and direction of executions that meet Stripe’s high standard of design excellence
• Ability to bring concepts to life through comps and creative presentations
• Ability to iterate on creative based on user research and testing
• Ability to synthesize complex product details into tangible creative executions
• Ability to present ideas in a clear and focused way that builds consensus within the team
• Ability to collaborate with writers, designers, researchers, product managers, marketers, and other cross-functional partners to serve a global audience

You may be fit for this role if you:

• 3+ years experience at agency/in-house, concepting and art directing ideas for brand and product advertising
• Experience working closely and collaborating with agencies and production partners to execute concepts at the highest level
• Experience designing, art directing and articulating creative decisions
• Experience bringing ideas to life with high quality comps and prototypes
• Have excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication
• Demonstrated experience working on mobile-first online and social campaigns
• Experience bringing ideas to life through comps and creative presentations
• Experience art directing and guiding film production and social video
• Experience in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite applications
• Detail oriented understanding of design
• Dedicated to a user-first mindset, and have strong experience working with data and insights

You should include these in your application:

• A link to your online portfolio
• Your CV or LinkedIn profile
• A few words about why Stripe is interesting to you