Brand Designer, Link
Who we are
About Stripe & Link
At Stripe, we’ve spent the last 15 years building financial infrastructure for the internet, serving millions of people and businesses worldwide. Our flagship consumer product, Link, makes online payments and digital transactions effortless and secure—the digital wallet for what’s next.
This is a unique opportunity to continue building a standalone brand within the Stripe ecosystem and introduce it to new global audiences. You’ll play a key role in making payments more personal and convenient while doing some of the most impactful work of your career.
About the team
Sitting within Stripe Brand Studio, the Link brand team has a distinctive consumer lens, focusing on how Link looks and sounds as it scales to meet meteoric product growth. We build, evolve, and maintain a versatile, forward-looking visual identity system and find clear, fresh ways to apply it across surfaces. The brand designers on our team are multidisciplinary: they design robust visual systems, lead art direction, and craft surfaces that prioritize brand and product storytelling.
Working with cross-functional teams across Stripe and external partners, we raise the quality and consistency of Link experiences—IRL, online, and everywhere between. We set the creative vision and strategy for diverse projects and audiences, and amplify that work across mediums, channels, objects, environments, and both digital and physical touchpoints.
What you’ll do
You’ll be joining a highly creative team that spans anywhere from developing storytelling to creating digital tools, brand systems to rapid ideation. The work is highly experimental, idea driven, and very collaborative and cross-functional.
Responsibilities
- Elevate and shape a brand system that is flexible enough to work across various surfaces and exemplifies Stripe’s commitment to craft & beauty
- Be an adamant maker that is genuinely curious, experimental, and loves to tinker, iterate quickly, and innovate on ideas, narrative, and making beautiful things
- Creative vision: Design execution and quality of ideas work in equal partnership
- Collaborate with like-minded creative people who have radically different skill sets and together create ideas that envision an optimistic, progressive future
- Help shape the strategic vision for design that pushes the boundaries of the brand and build awareness for what we do and why it’s important to Stripe
- Partner widely with cross-functional teams to build upon great ideas through making things
- Give and solicit feedback from wide range of teammates and stakeholders
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 6+ years of relevant design and art direction experience for technical and product-driven companies
- Experience working on a variety of experimental projects that exemplify expertise in design, creative technology, typography, and art direction
- Strong track record independently delivering work as well as influencing the work of other designers, contractors, and agencies
- A strong strategic acumen for building leading brands in a fast paced, global facing environment
- Proficient in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Keynote, and Google Slides
- Exceptional craft
Preferred qualifications
- Are genuinely curious, ambitious and creative with a refreshing sense of design, impeccable typography skills, digitally savvy and deep appreciation for creative process, technology and design engineering
- Are persuasive and humble in explaining your work, process, and decisions and experienced at facilitating stakeholders to advance the project as well as design quality
- Have excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication
- Love working with other designers to help them learn and grow—and invite them to help you learn and grow
- Experience working (collaboration and facilitation) with cross functional partners
- Creative coding or creative technologist background is a nice to have