Product Designer, Design Systems

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

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.

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 growing Design team.

The Design team works across many types of product initiatives at Stripe—from our brand voice and websites to events, web and mobile products, primary qualitative and quantitative research, 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.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for an experienced product designer to design UI components, patterns, and tools that enable designers and engineers at Stripe to create consistent, high quality user experiences. This includes working on Sail, the design system and component library that all of Stripe’s products are built on.

As a product designer on the team, you’ll work at the intersection of design and engineering, driving both decisions that directly impact the design and code quality of Stripe products. You’ll be asked to collaborate with designers and product teams from across the company to design systems, components, and tools that raise the quality and consistency of Stripe product experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design reusable components and patterns that align with Stripe’s design principles.
• Prototype components and reusable end-to-end experiences, contribute to design system repositories, and support engineering efforts. 
• Create and maintain clear, comprehensive documentation to enable teams across the organization to adopt and extend the design system effectively.
• Create and maintain shared UI libraries, patterns, and templates in Figma. 
• Facilitate training sessions to educate and onboard teams using the design system.
• Advocate for accessibility in all aspects of the design system.

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

• 4+ years relevant design experience at a product-driven tech company.
• Strong skills in visual design, interaction design, and prototyping demonstrated through a portfolio of work, spanning desktop and mobile surfaces.
• Experience collaborating closely with engineering teams.
• Experience leading changes to a design system.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working on design systems at scale, including creating and managing shared libraries, templates, and tokens in Figma. 
• Understanding of accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG).
• Familiarity with design tokens, version control systems (e.g. GIT), and tools for maintaining design system documentation.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and system concepts to diverse stakeholders. 
• Passion for mentoring and educating teams on leveraging design systems to improve workflow efficiency and consistency.