Brand Designer, Art Direction

USA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Stripe Brand Studio visuals: own end-to-end creative direction, craft, and cross-functional collaboration to push brand boundaries.

  • Must-have: 6+ years in design/art direction at a respected agency or product company.
  • Standout: Proven ability to lead across disciplines (illustration, photography, motion, 3D) and influence teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Push our creative voice forward with exceptional taste, craft, and a high bar for visual excellence.
  • Lead exploratory work that defines new visual territories and expands our brand’s aesthetic boundaries.
  • Design and execute high-fidelity work across new surfaces, owning projects from early concept through final delivery.
  • Collaborate across disciplines with people who have radically different skill sets to envision an optimistic, progressive future for the brand.
  • Translate abstract ideas and complex concepts into elegant, inspiring, and clear visual communication.
  • Provide visual direction for illustration, photography, motion, and video—guiding work hands-on or through trusted partners.
  • Remain an adamant maker—staying curious, experimental, and obsessed with tinkering to create beautiful things.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of design and art direction experience at a respected agency or product-driven company.
  • A track record of independently delivering work and influencing the output of other designers and agencies.
  • Proven experience collaborating across functions and partnering with illustrators, photographers, motion designers, and 3D artists.
  • Strong strategic acumen for pitching creative in a fast-paced, global environment.
  • Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud.

Preferred

  • A genuine curiosity and ambition for design, with a refreshing creative perspective grounded in meticulous craft.
  • Experience and comfort leveraging generative AI tools for rapid concepting, mood-boarding, and exploring new brand territories.
  • Ability to communicate persuasively and humbly when explaining your work, process, and decisions to stakeholders.
  • Enjoyment in mentoring other creatives to help them learn and grow—while remaining open to learning from them in return.
  • A balance of aesthetic intuition & systems thinking.
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Stripe

3.8 Glassdoor

Stripe builds programmable financial services. 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. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.

Founded in 2010
South San Francisco, California, USA
14K employees (726 in marketing)
67% recommend to a friend
80% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
93.8M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$718.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
12.2%
Direct
57.2%
Referral
29.4%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~13.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
501 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
3.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$9.4B
Last Raise
$694.2M
Secondary Market, 20 days ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Secondary Market
  • Feb 2025
    Secondary Market
  • Apr 2024
    Secondary Market • $694.2M

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