Brand Designer Creative Labs

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 everyones 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 Labs

Stripe Creative Labs 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 installations and interactive games to live streaming a hand built city over Black Friday Cyber Monday and creating films about a number of interesting topics. The work is highly experimental, idea driven, and very collaborative.Your ability to generate innovative and interesting ideas is as important as your ability to bring them to live both with your own hands, and with collaborators.

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
  
  
  

Who you are

Were 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 creative experience in concepting and delivering ideas
• Experience working on a variety of experimental projects that exemplify expertise in design, creative technology, typography, and art direction
• 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 the latest AI and creative tools
• Exceptional craft
  
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• Are genuinely curious, ambitious and creative with a refreshing sense of design, impeccable typography skills, digitally savvy and deep appreciation for creative process, technology and design engineering
• 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
• Creative coding or creative technologist background is a nice to have
  
  
  

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $175,200 - $262,800. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

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