Senior Brand Designer - Art Direction for Financial Tech

About the Role

Join Stripe as a Senior Brand Designer focusing on Art Direction, where you'll have the opportunity to shape the visual identity of a leading financial infrastructure platform. This remote role allows you to work with a talented team dedicated to elevating our brand and enhancing the user experience across various mediums.

What You'll Do

• 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.

Nice to Have

• 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.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $120,000 to $150,000 annually.
• Flexible remote work environment.
• Opportunities for professional development and mentorship.
• Access to cutting-edge design tools and resources.
• A collaborative and innovative team culture.