Description
We're seeking a highly creative Brand Designer to join our team at Stripe Creative Labs. As a Brand Designer, you will be responsible for designing robust visual systems, art direction, and crafting surfaces that focus on brand and product storytelling.
You will collaborate with other teams at Stripe, as well as external partners, to raise the quality and consistency of experiences with the Stripe brand IRL, virtually, and everywhere in between. You will craft the creative vision and strategy for different types of projects and audiences, and amplify them across various mediums, channels, objects to environments, and digital and physical experiences.
As a member of our team, you will be joining a highly creative team that spans the gamut of creative execution from digital installations and interactive games to live streaming a hand-built city over Black Friday Cyber Monday and creating films about a number of interesting topics. The work is highly experimental, idea-driven, and very collaborative.
Responsibilities:
- 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, agency partners, and stakeholders
Requirements:
- 6+ years of relevant creative experience in concepting and delivering ideas
- 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 the latest AI and creative tools
- Exceptional craft
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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
- Persuasive and humble in explaining your work, process, and decisions and experienced at facilitating stakeholders to advance the project as well as design quality
- 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