# Design Manager, Experiential

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Brand Design
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Keynote, Adobe Creative Cloud, AI Tools, Environmental Graphics, Stage Design, Scenic Design, Wayfinding, Event Identity Systems, Motion Design
**Posted:** 2026-07-22

> Lead and grow a team of experiential designers while owning creative direction for Stripe's events, brand activations, and design systems. Requires 10+ years design experience including 3+ years of people management, deep expertise in experiential and environmental design, and executive presence.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and grow a team of brand and experiential designers—setting clear expectations, fostering a culture of craft, and creating an environment where designers do their best work
- Own the creative direction for Stripe's experiential design output: event design systems, digital and environmental graphics, keynote design concepting, and brand activations
- Partner with the Experiential Creative Director and Brand Studio leadership to define the strategic creative vision for how Stripe shows up in the world
- Champion creative quality—establish and maintain a high bar across all deliverables, from concept through execution
- Build and evolve Stripe's experiential design system: scalable standards, templates, and creative frameworks that work globally across teams and events
- Oversee relationships with external agencies, contractors, production studios, and vendor partners—aligning on creative direction and ensuring quality delivery
- Collaborate cross-functionally with corporate events and product marketing, product design, brand design, and executive communications teams
- Recruit, hire, and onboard design talent to build out the team as the function grows
- Develop direct reports through regular 1:1s, structured feedback, career development conversations, and thoughtful performance calibration
- Represent the Experiential design function in leadership forums and cross-functional planning processes

## Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant design experience, including 3+ years managing and growing a team of designers
- Proven track record of creative direction for high-profile brand design and experiences, and events at a global scale
- Strong people leadership skills—you have developed design talent, navigated performance challenges, and built healthy, high-output teams
- Deep understanding of experiential design: environmental graphics, stage and scenic design, digital/physical brand integration, wayfinding, and event identity systems
- Ability to design and art direct across a wide range of surface areas (digital, physical, motion, communication) and tooling (Figma, Keynote, Adobe Creative Cloud, and AI tools)
- Strong executive presence—you can present and defend creative decisions to senior leaders with confidence and clarity
- Ability to simultaneously manage creative quality and team health—you know when to coach, when to redirect, and when to roll up your sleeves
- Systems-thinking approach with a track record of building scalable creative frameworks and extending shared patterns across a global brand
- Experience managing agency relationships and large-scale external production partners
- Strong track record of influencing without authority across marketing, product, and executive stakeholders
- Ability to balance creative ambition and operational rigor, consistently shipping world-class work on deadline and on budget
- Persuasive and humble, with a drive to seek feedback, and model the creative and collaborative behaviors that make great teams
- Excellent communication and presentation skills—equally comfortable writing a creative brief and presenting work to a range of stakeholders
- Highly detail-oriented, with a drive for perfection in every experience you ship
- Passionate about Stripe's mission, dedicated to a user-first mindset, and grounded in data and business context

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