[Remote] IC Design Director, Experiential

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses aiming to increase the GDP of the internet. The IC Design Director, Experiential will lead design direction on internal event experiences, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and mentor designers while shaping the strategic vision for brand experiences at Stripe.


Responsibilities

  • Lead design direction on all of Stripe’s internal event experiences
  • Build beautiful and scalable approaches for brand experiences.
  • Support and collaborate with the Experiential Creative director, designers, event marketers and other cross-functional partners to serve a global audience
  • Oversee the work of external teams in creative strategy, execution and production
  • Help shape the strategic vision and goals for the team and for what experiences means at Stripe
  • Inspire, by mentoring designers and partners in best practices, design process, and ideation
  • Be an IC that can also steward designers through large scale design projects

Skills

  • Have 8+ years of relevant design and art direction experience for technical and product-driven companies
  • Have a strong strategic acumen for building brand experiences in a fast paced, global facing environment
  • Can design across a wide range of surface areas (Digital, Physical, Communication, Motion, etc) and tooling (Figma, Keynote, Adobe Creative Cloud, and AI (Midjourney, Chat GPT, etc.))
  • Are a systems-thinker and excel at extrapolating and extending shared patterns and behaviors
  • Proven excellence in effective creative direction, and building and extending design systems
  • Have the ability to express and communicate a brand through distinct graphics, patterns, motion, interaction, and experiences
  • Are a hands-on maker, with the skills to effectively communicate concepts, direction and decisions with the team and with external partners
  • Strong track record delivering work independently and through others, as well as influencing the work of other internal teams and partners
  • Find a meaningful balance between optimizing for speed, quality, and doing challenging, interesting, pixel-perfect work
  • Are persuasive and humble in explaining your work, process, and decisions and crave feedback to help you design at your best
  • Love working with other designers to help them learn and grow—and have them help you learn and grow
  • Have excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication
  • Highly detail-oriented, with a drive for perfection down to the last pixel
  • Are passionate about Stripe’s mission, are dedicated to a user-first mindset, and have experience working with data & insights

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
  • 401(k) plan
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Wellness stipends

Company Overview

  • Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://stripe.com.

    • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Stripe has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 98 in 2025, 283 in 2024, 141 in 2023, 379 in 2022, 276 in 2021, 111 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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