Staff Brand Designer, Creative Lab

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Brand Studio team works on a variety of brand-centric projects for Stripe, from our brand standards to campaigns, events, IRL experiences, packaging, digital products, and even printed publications. The brand designers on this team are multidisciplinary in nature, able to design robust visual systems, art direction, and craft surfaces that focus on brand and product storytelling.

What it asks for · 7

• 8+ years of relevant creative experience in concepting and delivering ideas
• Experience creating and directing experimental work across a variety of mediums, disciplines, and collaborators
• 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
• Exceptional craft
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional conceptual thinking and art direction across a range of formats and disciplines
• Exceptional visual and cultural taste, with a broad frame of reference extending beyond design

Also a plus

• Are genuinely curious, ambitious and creative with a refreshing sense of design, art, technology, and culture
• Are persuasive and humble in explaining your work, process, and decisions and experienced at facilitating stakeholders to advance the project as well as design quality
• Have 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 do the same)
• Have experience working in or alongside highly conceptual advertising, design, or cultural studios
• Experience working with cross functional partners
• Proficient in the latest AI and creative tools
• Creative coding or creative technologist background is a nice to have

What the job covers

• 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
• Generate original, conceptually strong ideas from ambiguous briefs, strategic problems, cultural observations, and emerging opportunities
• Determine the right form for an idea, then direct multidisciplinary collaborators to bring it to life across a wide range of mediums
• Develop clear creative narratives, pitches, references, treatments, and prototypes that make an idea compelling before its final execution is known

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• creative11×
• ideas9×
• experience8×
• brand7×
• design7×
• partners4×
• requirements4×
• craft3×
• cultural3×
• designers3×
• digital3×
• disciplines3×
• exceptional3×
• execution3×
• experimental3×
• highly3×

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