Who we are About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use 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.

About the team

The Link team at Stripe is building a fast, convenient, and best-in-class consumer checkout experience that delights consumers with embedded saved payment and identity tools while driving higher conversion and higher-margin transactions for our many millions of merchants. Based across North America, we're a diverse team who are deeply passionate about redefining the payment experience for consumers and creating outstanding value for merchants that increases revenue, lowers cost and grows their business. Our days are filled with exciting challenges and collaborative problem-solving as we look to create a gigantic, global consumer network with new and unique checkout and payment products.

What you’ll do

The Product Design team is composed of several teams that work together to help define, create, and deliver all user-facing aspects of the Stripe brand and product. Product Designers work directly with Engineers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Marketers in each product area. As members of the product team, they define the user-facing experiences our users encounter on Stripe products, then translate that thinking into a complete experience that can be tested, shipped, and refined. They are responsible for creating well-functioning, beautiful products and experiences that users love, and are eager to recommend to others. 

In this role, you’ll support a talented team of Product Designers who are designing a world-class checkout experience with new, 0-1 products that we’re confident both consumers and merchants will love.

Responsibilities Manage a quickly growing and business-critical team of designers working on Stripe’s consumer-facing product Grow the team to meet business demands and employee development needs Partner closely with your Product Management peers to shape and prioritize Collaborate with Design and Stripe leadership to determine design direction Inspire, motivate, and lead designers across experience levels to do the best work of their career Work closely with our Product Management, Product Engineering, Comms, Marketing, and senior leadership to deliver stunning and effective work Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements You have 3+ years of people management experience You have 8+ years of relevant design experience at a tech or product-driven company Preferred qualifications You excel at motivating and inspiring people to do their best work You have experience recruiting and building product design teams You are relentlessly user-focused You have experience designing for consumers You excel at both written and spoken communication Your best work is done in a highly collaborative way You can find a meaningful balance between optimizing for speed, quality, and doing risky, but interesting work