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Following our 2025 brand refresh, Stripe's visual identity is evolving to meet our global ambitions. To maintain our high bar for craft while moving at the speed of our product suite, we are looking for an experienced designer to elevate the brand through breakout art direction. You will push the boundaries of our expression while ensuring beauty and scalability across marketing, product, and beyond. This role is for a creative with an expansive point of view—someone who can help shape bold visual directions while building systems that endure. You'll concept, design, and direct high-impact brand moments that extend our aesthetic vocabulary and work cross-functionally to shape work that is both thoughtful and ambitious.
Job Responsibility:
Push our creative voice forward with exceptional taste, craft, and a high bar for visual excellence
Lead exploratory work that defines new visual territories and expands our brand's aesthetic boundaries
Design and execute high-fidelity work across new surfaces, owning projects from early concept through final delivery
Collaborate across disciplines with people who have radically different skill sets to envision an optimistic, progressive future for the brand
Translate abstract ideas and complex concepts into elegant, inspiring, and clear visual communication
Provide visual direction for illustration, photography, motion, and video—guiding work hands-on or through trusted partners
Remain an adamant maker—staying curious, experimental, and obsessed with tinkering to create beautiful things
Requirements:
6+ years of design and art direction experience at a respected agency or product-driven company
A track record of independently delivering work and influencing the output of other designers and agencies
Proven experience collaborating across functions and partnering with illustrators, photographers, motion designers, and 3D artists
Strong strategic acumen for pitching creative in a fast-paced, global environment
Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud
Nice to have:
A genuine curiosity and ambition for design, with a refreshing creative perspective grounded in meticulous craft
Experience and comfort leveraging generative AI tools for rapid concepting, mood-boarding, and exploring new brand territories
Ability to communicate persuasively and humbly when explaining your work, process, and decisions to stakeholders
Enjoyment in mentoring other creatives to help them learn and grow—while remaining open to learning from them in return
A balance of aesthetic intuition & systems thinking