Stripe Looking for Brand and Marketing Designer at Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full Time

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 Brand and Marketing Creative team works across most teams and projects at Stripe—from our brand standards to demand and brand campaigns, and events.

The Brand Design team lays the foundations that help Stripe accelerate. We do this by creating, evolving, and maintaining Stripe’s high-quality, versatile, and forward-looking visual identity design system and its expression. We sweat the details to ensure the highest quality product for our users (and other Stripes). .

Our team—and our creative efforts—are multipliers for Stripe and Stripes. Our focus on principles, systems, and standards makes it easier for all Stripes to get work done—at a high quality bar, while still creating space for evolution and innovation. Collaborating with other teams at Stripe, as well as select external partners, we raise the quality and consistency of interactions with the Stripe brand.

The ideal candidate excels at working fast and scrappy without sacrificing the highest quality, has a growth mindset, and can bring fresh expressions within a brand sandbox. They understand the best practices of demand marketing as well as brand, can hold their own in executive reviews, and know how to drive work forward through layers of stakeholder alignment while maintaining energy and enthusiasm for the work.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Art director, rooted in concept and ideation with a proven track record creating impactful campaigns for brand and demand generation advertising efforts.
• Ability to conceive of and execute on advertising campaign ideas across a wide range of deliverables: online, social, motion, film, OOH, print and bespoke ideas that go beyond the expected.
• Ability to ideate meaningful online and social creative with a mobile first mentality.
• Ability to guide the visual tone and direction of executions that meet Stripe’s high standard of design excellence.
• Ability to bring design concepts to life through storyboarding, comps and creative presentations.
• Ability to iterate on creative based on user research and testing.
• Ability to synthesize complex product details into tangible creative executions.
• Ability to present ideas in a clear and focused way that builds consensus within the team.
• Ability to collaborate with writers, designers, researchers, product managers, marketers, and other cross-functional partners to serve a global audience.

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

• 5+ years experience at agency/in-house, concepting and art directing ideas for brand and product advertising.
• Experience working closely and collaborating with agencies and production partners to execute concepts at the highest level.
• Experience designing, art directing and articulating creative decisions.
• Experience bringing ideas to life with high quality comps and prototypes.
• Have excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrated experience working on mobile-first online and social campaigns.
• Experience bringing ideas to life through comps and creative presentations.
• Experience art directing and guiding film production and social video
• Experience in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite applications. Working knowledge of After Effects or experience working with motion designers preferred.
• Detail oriented understanding of design.
• Are passionate about Stripe’s mission and are eager to build for the long term and drive global change.
• Dedicated to a user-first mindset, and have strong experience working with data and insights.

You should include these in your application

• A link to your online portfolio
• Your CV or LinkedIn profile
• A few words about why Stripe is interesting to you