Staff Product Designer, Messaging

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.

The Product Design team is composed of several teams that work together to help define, create, and deliver all user-facing aspects of the Stripe brand and product. Product Designers are strategic partners to Engineering and Product Management within a dedicated product area. In partnership with the product team, they help define the user-facing experiences our users encounter on Stripe products, then translate that thinking into a complete experience that can be tested, shipped, and refined. They are responsible for creating well-functioning and beautiful products and experiences that users love and are eager to recommend to others.

About the team

The Messaging team is responsible for developing a comprehensive communication platform that delivers timely and relevant information to Stripe Dashboard users across various channels. Additionally, the team provides internal teams with components and tools to ensure consistent and cohesive communication.  

What you’ll do

In this role you will help build and enhance the Stripe Dashboard by designing, concepting, and prototyping high-quality core dashboard and product experiences.

Responsibilities

• Evolve Stripe's communication platform, ensuring users receive timely, relevant information through their preferred channels
• Design industry-leading communication experiences that evolve existing UI surfaces or create net new ones
• Design high-quality UIs that set the standard for what good design looks like at Stripe
• Work closely with peer designers, product managers, and engineers to define both the long-term strategy and the short-term tactics for our upcoming and existing initiatives
• Work with engineering and partner teams to launch high-quality, user-facing product experiences
• Participate in design reviews and share your work regularly with the design and team leadership
• Partner closely with our user research team to drive and support UX research projects; 
• Partner closely with content design to develop content systems

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

• Has at least 7+ years relevant design experience
• A portfolio showcasing strong design skills with high-quality, well-crafted UI experiences
• Experience partnering closely with product, engineering and other cross-functional teams to drive product direction
• Demonstrated ability to wrangle lots of competing priorities, points of views, as well as user and business needs to come up with solution
• Skilled in explaining your work, process, and decisions to cross-functional partners and stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to work horizontally across product verticals & collaborating upwards with team & company leadership

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing for a B2B and/or fintech product
• Experience thinking and designing UI systems
• Experience building out messaging systems