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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.

What you'll do

• Lead design direction on all of Stripe's internal event experiences
• Build beautiful and scalable approaches for brand experiences
• Support and collaborate with the Experiential Creative director, designers, event marketers and other cross-functional partners to serve a global audience
• Oversee the work of external teams in creative strategy, execution and production
• Help shape the strategic vision and goals for the team and for what experiences means at Stripe
• Inspire, by mentoring designers and partners in best practices, design process, and ideation
• Be an IC that can also steward designers through large scale design projects

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• Have 8+ years of relevant design and art direction experience for technical and product-driven companies
• Have a strong strategic acumen for building brand experiences in a fast paced, global facing environment
• Can design across a wide range of surface areas (Digital, Physical, Communication, Motion, etc) and tooling (Figma, Keynote, Adobe Creative Cloud, and AI tools)
• Are a systems-thinker and excel at extrapolating and extending shared patterns and behaviors
• Proven excellence in effective creative direction, and building and extending design systems
• Have the ability to express and communicate a brand through distinct graphics, patterns, motion, interaction, and experiences
• Are a hands-on maker, with the skills to effectively communicate concepts, direction and decisions with the team and with external partners
• Strong track record delivering work independently and through others, as well as influencing the work of other internal teams and partners
• Find a meaningful balance between optimizing for speed, quality, and doing challenging, interesting, pixel-perfect work
• Are persuasive and humble in explaining your work, process, and decisions and crave feedback to help you design at your best
• Love working with other designers to help them learn and grow—and have them help you learn and grow
• Have excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication
• Highly detail-oriented, with a drive for perfection down to the last pixel
• Are passionate about Stripe's mission, are dedicated to a user-first mindset, and have experience working with data & insights

Employment type

• Full-time

Seniority level

• Director

Job function

• Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

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