Creative Director, Brand Experiences at Stripe

Creative Director, Brand Experiences

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

Brand Studio lays the foundations that help Stripe accelerate. We do this by creating, evolving, and maintaining Stripe's high-quality, versatile, and forward-looking brand design systems, experiences, and advertising campaigns. We sweat the details. We make it seem effortless. The Experiential team is responsible for bringing Stripe's brand to life in the real worldfrom flagship events and industry conferences to internal summits and curated partner experiences. This is a team that operates at the intersection of creativity, strategy, and production.

As Creative Director, Brand Experiences, you will lead a team of talented designers and set the creative direction for all of Stripe's event and experience design. You are an inspiring leader and a sharp creative directorsomeone who can zoom out to define a cohesive creative vision, and zoom in to give precise, actionable feedback. You partner closely with event marketers, brand leaders, producers, and executive stakeholders to ensure every Stripe experience is cohesive, intentional, and unmistakably on-brand. You care deeply about your team's craft, their growth, and the culture they work within.

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of brand and experiential designerssetting clear expectations, fostering a culture of craft, and creating an environment where designers do their best work
• Own the creative direction for Stripe's experiential design output: event design systems, digital and environmental graphics, keynote design concepting, and brand activations
• Partner with the Experiential Creative Director and Brand Studio leadership to define the strategic creative vision for how Stripe shows up in the world
• Champion creative qualityestablish and maintain a high bar across all deliverables, from concept through execution
• Build and evolve Stripe's experiential design system: scalable standards, templates, and creative frameworks that work globally across teams and events
• Oversee relationships with external agencies, contractors, production studios, and vendor partnersaligning on creative direction and ensuring quality delivery
• Collaborate cross-functionally with corporate events and product marketing, product design, brand design, and executive communications teams
• Recruit, hire, and onboard design talent to build out the team as the function grows
• Develop direct reports through regular 1:1s, structured feedback, career development conversations, and thoughtful performance calibration
• Represent the Experiential design function in leadership forums and cross-functional planning processes

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

The annual US base salary range for this role is $214,400 - $321,600. For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.