# Design Manager, Experiential

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: US
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

As Design Manager of the Experiential team at Stripe, you will lead a team of talented designers and set the creative direction for all of Stripe's event and experience design.

## 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

## Skills

### Required
- Experiential design
- Environmental graphics
- Stage and scenic design
- Digital/physical brand integration
- Wayfinding
- Event identity systems
- Figma
- Keynote
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- AI tools

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