Editorial Director, Brand & Creative Partnerships

Stripe•Seattle, WA

19h

About The Position

Stripe is seeking a senior editorial leader to join its Narrative & Editorial team. This role will be responsible for bringing original stories and insights from Stripe to a broader audience through media partnerships and brand marketing channels. The ideal candidate is an exceptional editor, writer, and creative partner with a strong understanding of what captures attention. This is a senior individual contributor role that will focus primarily on shaping external media partnerships, with additional time dedicated to original editorial work and advising partner teams. The Narrative & Editorial team at Stripe encompasses Content Marketing, Brand Marketing, Portfolio Product Marketing, Copywriting, Copy Editing, and Customer Marketing, aiming to create distinctive stories about the businesses, technologies, and economic forces shaping the internet.

Requirements

Exceptional editorial judgment and a demonstrated ability to make complicated ideas compelling.
8+ years of relevant experience in editorial, writing, creative development, journalism, publishing, media, brand strategy, or a closely related field.
An exceptional portfolio of published or public-facing work that demonstrates strong writing and editing, original thinking, and an ability to make ideas resonate with an audience.
Active reader of and contributor to newsletters, social platforms, and niche communities where people debate new ideas about technology, economics, science, business, and culture.
Excellent editing skills: ability to diagnose what is missing from a draft or idea, identify the most interesting argument, and give feedback that makes the work materially better.
Experience developing original editorial work, sponsored media, advertising, creative partnerships, or other high-quality audience-facing programs.
Understanding the difference between work that is merely on-message and work that is genuinely interesting, useful, or worth discussing.
Ability to translate complex subjects—including technology, business, economics, science, or policy—into work that is accessible without becoming simplistic.
Strong creative instincts and a sophisticated design sensibility; understanding how language, ideas, visuals, format, and distribution work together.
Deep curiosity about the technology industry and the broader cultural and economic context in which it operates.
Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, external partners, writers, designers, marketers, and agencies without relying on formal authority.
Ability to move fluidly between strategy and execution: developing the core idea, shaping the brief, improving the draft, and making the final call on quality.
High standards, sound judgment, and pragmatism to help teams make excellent work within real constraints.

Responsibilities

Lead the editorial and creative direction for Stripe’s most important external media partnerships, including advertising content, research-led collaborations, and original editorial programs developed with respected publishers and creators.
Develop work that feels native to the audience and editorial environment in which it appears—not generic brand messaging placed beside someone else’s work.
Turn Stripe’s original data analyses, economic insights, customer stories, and more into content pieces that are clear, surprising, useful, and memorable–and that readers and listeners won’t want to skip over.
Shape the full editorial process for partnership work: refining briefs, identifying the strongest ideas, directing creative development, and providing decisive feedback on drafts and final deliverables.
Direct and manage agencies, external creators, and editorial partners as needed, working within existing partnership structures and commercial agreements.
Write, edit, and materially improve high-stakes content across formats, including blog posts, newsletter segments, podcast scripts, ad copy, social posts, and more.
Generate original concepts for creative programs, editorial franchises, and nontraditional formats that broaden how Stripe contributes to conversations about the internet economy.
Serve as a trusted thought partner to teams across Stripe, helping them clarify ideas, find the strongest expression of their work, and make better creative decisions.
Partner with colleagues in Brand Marketing, Brand Design, Content Marketing, Portfolio PMM, Copywriting, and Customer Marketing to make Stripe’s storytelling more coherent and distinctive.
Define and uphold a clear quality bar for editorial and partnership work, making well-reasoned calls about what is ready to represent Stripe and what still needs improvement.