Who we areAbout 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 Studio team works across most teams and projects at Stripe—from our brand standards to demand and brand campaigns, and events.
Our team—and our creative efforts—are multipliers for Stripe and Stripes. Our focus on principles, systems, and standards makes it easier for all Stripes to get work done—at a high quality bar, while still creating space for evolution and innovation. Collaborating with other teams at Stripe, as well as select external partners, we raise the quality and consistency of interactions with the Stripe brand.
The ideal candidate excels at working fast and scrappy without sacrificing the highest quality, has a growth mindset, and can bring fresh expressions within a brand sandbox. They understand the best practices of demand marketing as well as brand, can hold their own in executive reviews, and know how to drive work forward through layers of stakeholder alignment while maintaining energy and enthusiasm for the work.
What you’ll do
The advertising team on Brand Studio collaborates both inhouse and with agency partners to manage and create all creative output across brand and growth marketing campaigns. We apply Stripe’s high-quality, versatile, and forward-looking visual identity design system across a variety of media from digital to out of home. We focus both on evolving new creative ideas as well as building robust systems for scale. We sweat the details to ensure the highest quality product for our users (and other Stripes).
Responsibilities
- Systems thinker building tools and components to allow for scale without sacrificing design quality.
- Ability to conceive of and execute on advertising campaign ideas across a wide range of deliverables: online, social, print, video and bespoke ideas that go beyond the expected.
- Ability to ideate meaningful online and social creative
- Can guide the visual tone and direction of executions to meet Stripe’s high standard of design excellence.
- Bring design concepts to life through storyboarding, comps and creative presentations.
- iterate on creative based on user research and testing.
- Synthesize complex product details into tangible creative executions.
- Present ideas in a clear and focused way that builds consensus within the team.
- Collaborate with writers, designers, animators, researchers, product managers, marketers, and other cross-functional partners to serve a global audience.
- Translate design system components into turnkey templates within Canva.
- Ability to drive creative quality, collaboration, and cohesion across multiple external agencies in tandem.
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
- 8+ years experience at agency/in-house, concepting and designing ideas for brand and product advertising.
- Experience working collaborating with and overseeing agencies and production partners to execute concepts at the highest level.
- Experience designing and articulating creative decisions.
- Experience bringing ideas to life with high quality comps and prototypes.
- Demonstrated experience working on mobile-first online and social campaigns.
- Experience bringing ideas to life through comps and creative presentations.
- Experience art directing and guiding film production and social video
- Experience in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite applications.
- Are passionate about Stripe’s mission and are eager to build for the long term and drive global change.
- Dedicated to a user-first mindset, and have strong experience working with data and insights.
- Have excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication.
Preferred qualifications
- Working knowledge of After Effects or experience working with motion designers preferred.
- Experience working on an in-house brand design team
