Brand Designer, Creative Labs

Responsibilities

• Concept, develop, and execute integrated campaigns across digital, film, print, OOH, and live activations, from early brief through final delivery
• Work closely with the Advertising team to build a strong, consistent creative pipeline that connects brand to business goals
• Partner with the Stripe Identity team to ensure campaign work is grounded in and advances Stripe's visual and verbal identity
• Translate briefs, user insights, and business objectives into campaign ideas that are both strategically sharp and creatively distinctive
• Present and champion ambitious creative work to stakeholders and senior leadership, building the case without diluting the idea
• Art direct external agencies, contractors, and collaborators, maintaining quality and brand alignment throughout
• Work closely with producer leads to drive program success, managing timelines, quality, and alignment across workstreams
• Contribute to raising the team's standards and culture of craft through the quality, clarity, and consistency of your own work

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of design and art direction experience, ideally at technical or product-driven companies
• A strong track record of independently delivering work while also influencing the output of other designers, contractors, and agencies
• Deep cross-functional collaboration skills, comfortable working across creative, product, marketing, and strategy
• Strategic instincts for building ambitious, globally facing brands in fast-moving environments
• Strong instincts across film, digital, print, OOH, and activations, with a genuine pulse on culture and the ability to translate that into concepts that earn attention
• A proven ability to sell ambitious creative work: concepting ideas and presenting them in a way that earns buy-in from senior leadership without flattening them
• A strong partnership mindset, particularly with producer leads, to drive programs forward with quality, clarity, and momentum
• Confident stakeholder management skills: able to navigate ambiguity, align competing priorities, and bring people in on the creative
• Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and the latest AI workflows
• Exceptional craft and impeccable taste

Preferred Qualifications

• Genuinely curious, ambitious, and creative, with a sharp eye for typography, a deep appreciation for craft and the creative process, and a digitally native sensibility
• Persuasive and considered in presenting your work and process; skilled at facilitating stakeholder conversations without losing creative integrity
• Active experimentation with AI tools in the creative process, with an honest point of view on how they can shape the way work gets made
• Excellent written and verbal communication; strong organization and presentation skills
• Experience in sports marketing, sponsorship activations, or brand-in-culture work, with a perspective on how brands earn credibility in spaces they don't own
• Created work that generated genuine cultural traction, beyond media spend alone
• Able to art direct at a high level and think through how a design system or campaign idea can evolve and deepen over time
• Experience in environments where product and brand both had to pull their weight, and where the product itself was central to the creative story
• A history of award-caliber work, and the perspective to know that awards aren't always the goal, but that they have a real place in raising ambition, sharpening craft, and setting a team's creative standard