Creative Director, Brand Experiences

ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a highly skilled Creative Director, Brand Experiences to lead our team of talented designers at Stripe. As a key member of our Brand Studio, you will be responsible for creating, evolving, and maintaining Stripe's high-quality brand design systems, experiences, and advertising campaigns. The Experiential team, which you will be part of, brings Stripe's brand to life in the real world through events, conferences, and internal summits. WHAT YOU'LL DO As Creative Director, Brand Experiences, you will lead a team of designers and set the creative direction for all of Stripe's event and experience design. Your responsibilities will include: - Leading, managing, and growing a team of brand and experiential designers - Owning the creative direction for Stripe's experiential design output, including event design systems, digital and environmental graphics, keynote design concepting, and brand activations - Partnering with the Experiential Creative Director and Brand Studio leadership to define the strategic creative vision for how Stripe shows up in the world - Championing creative quality and establishing a high bar across all deliverables - Building and evolving Stripe's experiential design system - Overseeing relationships with external agencies, contractors, production studios, and vendor partners - Collaborating cross-functionally with corporate events and product marketing, product design, brand design, and executive communications teams - Recruiting, hiring, and onboarding design talent to build out the team - Developing direct reports through regular 1:1s, structured feedback, career development conversations, and performance calibration - Representing the Experiential design function in leadership forums and cross-functional planning processes WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - 10+ years of relevant design experience, including 3+ years managing and growing a team of designers - A proven track record of creative direction for high-profile brand design and experiences, and events at a global scale - Strong people leadership skills, including developing design talent, navigating performance challenges, and building healthy, high-output teams - A deep understanding of experiential design, including environmental graphics, stage and scenic design, digital/physical brand integration, wayfinding, and event identity systems - The ability to design and art direct across a wide range of surface areas and tooling - Strong executive presence, including presenting and defending creative decisions to senior leaders - A systems-thinking approach with a track record of building scalable creative frameworks and extending shared patterns across a global brand - Experience managing agency relationships and large-scale external production partners - Strong communication and presentation skills, including writing creative briefs and presenting work to stakeholders - A high level of detail-orientedness and a drive for perfection in every experience shipped WHY REMOTE As a remote worker at Stripe, you will have the flexibility to work from anywhere and enjoy a range of benefits, including: - A competitive salary - A comprehensive health plan - Parental leave - Education stipend - Life insurance - Equipment stipend - Flexible schedule - Opportunities for professional growth and development BENEFITS - Competitive salary - Comprehensive