Editorial Director, Brand & Creative Partnerships

Stripe•Seattle, WA

12d

About The Position

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Companies of all sizes—from ambitious startups to global enterprises—use Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and build new business models.The work we do is technically sophisticated, economically consequential, and central to how businesses operate online. Explaining that work well requires more than clear messaging. It requires ideas, judgment, and a distinctive point of view. Stripe’s Narrative & Editorial team brings together Content Marketing, Brand Marketing, Portfolio Product Marketing, Copywriting, Copy Editing, and Customer Marketing. We create coherent, distinctive stories about the businesses, technologies, and economic forces shaping the internet.

Requirements

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.
You are, in the best sense, very online: an active reader of and contributor to the newsletters, social platforms, and niche communities where people debate new ideas about technology, economics, science, business, and culture.
You can spot emerging arguments, voices, and formats early—and engage with them authentically, with intellectual honesty and your own point of view.
You are an excellent editor. You can diagnose what is missing from a draft or idea, identify the most interesting argument, and give feedback that makes the work materially better.
You have experience developing original editorial work, sponsored media, advertising, creative partnerships, or other high-quality audience-facing programs.
You understand the difference between work that is merely on-message and work that is genuinely interesting, useful, or worth discussing.
You can translate complex subjects—including technology, business, economics, science, or policy—into work that is accessible without becoming simplistic.
You have strong creative instincts and a sophisticated design sensibility.
You understand how language, ideas, visuals, format, and distribution work together.
You are deeply curious about the technology industry and the broader cultural and economic context in which it operates.
You are comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, external partners, writers, designers, marketers, and agencies without relying on formal authority.
You can move fluidly between strategy and execution: developing the core idea, shaping the brief, improving the draft, and making the final call on quality.
You have high standards, sound judgment, and enough pragmatism to help teams make excellent work within real constraints.

Nice To Haves

This may include experience writing consistently for a large online followership, even if not professionally.

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.