Description
Job Description
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies,from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups,use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead.
About the Team
Brand Studio lays the foundations that help Stripe accelerate. We do this by creating, evolving, and maintaining Stripe’s high-quality, versatile, and forward-looking brand design systems, experiences, and advertising campaigns.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for leading creative operations and creative production across our consumer brand Link, in close partnership with the Link Creative Director. This role is a hybrid mix of program management, project management, and creative production depending on the project phase. During certain periods you’ll be focused on the 10,000 foot view of the program, and at other times you’ll be working side-by-side with the creative team overseeing execution of every design detail during production.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading all Link brand program management, including roadmap development, budget oversight, and project scoping, timelines, and resourcing
- Managing a high volume of simultaneous projects, ranging from small to large scale, and across surfaces - creative strategy, web, digital, social, brand systems, integrated campaigns, and email
- Partnering closely with the Link Creative Director to further scale and evolve Link brand design systems at Stripe; optimising processes to streamline how work is done
- Partnering closely with the XFN Design teams to ensure smooth execution, alignment and integration of design systems across all surfaces
- Sourcing, onboarding, and overseeing external creative agencies
- Connecting silos, socialising changes, anticipating risks, and providing actionable solutions for escalation to Brand Studio leadership
- Upholding and advocating for design quality with cross-functional teams and vendors
- Identifying opportunities to expand AI tooling for the Link brand team, including discovery of new tools and processes, driving automation and efficiency, and developing self-serve brand resources
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in similar roles and industries
- Thinking users first,understanding their needs, finding interesting and unique solutions, and striving to consistently optimise how to best engage with them
- Having a strong strategic acumen for developing complex program roadmaps and cross-functional processes in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrating strong design sense, industry knowledge and best practices, having deep knowledge producing complex brand and event design systems, and bringing design assets to life across the creative production process
- Having experience implementing AI tooling and automation systems, and driving adoption across teams
- Proven excellence in producing creative systems that are optimised for scale and growth
- Being highly detail-oriented and excelling at simplifying complexity
- Having a strong track record of successfully influencing outcomes both internally and with agency partners
- Being able to balance optimising for speed and quality, with high craft and quality creative work
- Being persuasive in explaining your work, process, and decisions
- Having excellent organisation and presentation skills, and excelling in written and verbal communication
- Being passionate about Stripe’s mission