Staff Brand Designer, Creative Lab

Stripe

1h

About The Position

Stripe Creative Lab creates breakthrough, culturally resonant, carefully crafted projects that reveal Stripe’s capabilities in surprising ways. Its work is experimental, idea-driven, and collaborative, often beginning with ambiguous briefs and requiring the team to find new ways to bring ideas to life.

The Staff Brand Designer will join a creative team working across digital experiences, physical activations, and other formats. The role combines original concept development with selecting the right form for an idea and realizing it hands-on or through close collaboration with people across disciplines. The designer will help shape strategic design vision, push the boundaries of Stripe’s brand, and build awareness of Stripe and its importance.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of relevant creative experience concepting and delivering ideas.
• Experience creating and directing experimental work across a variety of mediums, disciplines, and collaborators.
• A strong track record of independently delivering work and influencing the work of other designers, contractors, and agencies.
• Strong strategic acumen for building leading brands in a fast-paced, globally oriented environment.
• Exceptional craft.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional conceptual thinking and art direction across a range of formats and disciplines.
• Exceptional visual and cultural taste, with a broad frame of reference extending beyond design.

Nice To Haves

• Curiosity, ambition, and creativity, with a refreshing perspective on design, art, technology, and culture.
• Ability to explain work, process, and decisions persuasively and humbly, and experience facilitating stakeholders to advance projects and design quality.
• Excellent organization and presentation skills, with strong written and verbal communication.
• Enjoyment of helping other designers learn and grow, while also welcoming their help in your own development.
• Experience working in or alongside highly conceptual advertising, design, or cultural studios.
• Experience working with cross-functional partners.
• Proficiency with the latest AI and creative tools.
• A creative coding or creative technologist background.

Responsibilities

• Be a curious, experimental maker who tinkers, iterates quickly, and innovates on ideas, narratives, and crafted work.
• Balance creative vision and execution quality with the strength of the ideas.
• Collaborate with creative people with different skill sets to develop ideas that envision an optimistic, progressive future.
• Help shape a strategic design vision that pushes the boundaries of the brand and builds awareness of Stripe and its work.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop ideas through making.
• Give and solicit feedback from teammates, agency partners, and stakeholders.
• Generate original, conceptually strong ideas from ambiguous briefs, strategic problems, cultural observations, and emerging opportunities.
• Choose the appropriate form for an idea and direct multidisciplinary collaborators in bringing it to life across a range of mediums.
• Develop creative narratives, pitches, references, treatments, and prototypes that make ideas compelling before final execution is known.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed