Brand Designer, Experimental

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’ll be joining a highly creative team that spans anywhere from developing storytelling to creating digital tools, brand systems to rapid ideation. The work is highly experimental, idea driven, and very collaborative and cross-functional.

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 and stakeholders
  
  
  

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 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 Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Keynote, and google slides.
• Exceptional craft
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• * 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
  

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location, in most cases, is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €68,000 - €102,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location. 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 specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.