Design Manager, Web Presence

Job Title

Design Manager, Web Presence

About the Role

As one of two Design Managers on the Presence team, you'll lead a group of exceptional designers focused on key initiatives across stripe.com, link.com, Bridge and Sessions. You'll own the creative direction for areas like acquisition, global expansion, experimentation, and our annual customer event, Sessions.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a high-performing design team, with a focus on feedback, coaching, and long-term career development
• Inspire and motivate the team to do their best work while creating a clear design vision that aligns with Stripe's goals
• Craft novel moments of storytelling and delight for our web presence and uphold our quality standards
• Balance growth with putting users first while upholding a very high quality bar
• Champion curiosity and adoption of new AI tools and the evolving our ways of working
• Understanding global needs and design systems, including knowing when to stick to the system vs when it's okay to break away from it
• Often work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical deliverables
• Advocate for design excellence at every stage of the product lifecycle, balancing speed, quality, and bold experimentation
• Work with other design specialists and managers on team-wide initiatives, like recruiting and developing content standards
• Influence strategic decisions across all the corners of our web presence
• Partner with marketing, comms, growth, and Link teams to define information architecture and tell the right stories
• Work closely with the team to help scale our design systems, devise generative art directions, propose web animations, and distill interaction-heavy product launch materials on sites such as stripe.com

Requirements

• 6 years+ of creative direction and management experience, and 9+ years of relevant experience in strategy, information architecture, web design and creative technology experience at digital native agencies, and/or tech-forward, product-driven companies.
• Leadership in driving strategic thinking for impactful digital experiences
• Conviction in the web as a storytelling medium, demonstrable through a portfolio of design systems, engaging microsites, Figma libraries, WebGL experiments, CSS art, or anything else,you tell us
• Expert understanding of the formal elements of design, not just limited to the web but including typography, layout, balance, and proportion

Preferred Qualifications

• Sufficiently advanced knowledge of modern HTML and CSS to empathise with and lead the designers and design engineers crafting our web presence
• A tenacity for moving quickly on new, green-field projects while steadfastly delivering on long-term roadmaps
• Experience at a company with global scale, expanding to new markets, leading localization strategy and integrating with l10n.
• Accountability and a high bar when working with production systems
• A demonstrable ability to communicate your front-end or information architecture designs using documentation and crisp visualisation
• Intuition and empathy to gather consensus amongst different stakeholders and subject matter experts

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.