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 Stripe Press

Stripe Press publishes books about technology, science, and economics because we believe that for many of the most significant breakthroughs in each of these categories, the key ingredient is ideas. The Stripe Press audience is global, fiercely curious, and extremely high-agency. We hope our work — which ranges in scope from books which advance a moral case for economic growth or offer models for scaling a company or engineering management, to podcasts about infrastructure — can be tools that inspire optimism, catalyze research and development, increase entrepreneurship, and ultimately, accelerate progress.

About the team

The Editorial Design team designs books, digital and physical experiences, campaigns and the brand to resonate with readers of Stripe Press. We are a small, highly collaborative team that values unique creative vision, meticulous craft and high-quality, versatile, and forward-looking visual approaches. We work closely with the publishing team, our authors, and other external partners to elevate the output of everything we do. 

What you’ll do

You’ll be joining a highly creative team that spans brand, digital and book design for Stripe Press. The work is highly editorial, idea driven, and very collaborative and cross-functional. You’ll help us elevate and evolve our brand through the design of books (both covers and interiors), posters, swag, merch, special editions, zines, events, campaigns, social media and other digital experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design really, really beautiful books first and foremost
• Craft and amplify the Stripe Press brand
• Think about and drive conceptual ideas
• Be an adamant maker that is genuinely curious, experimental, and loves to make, iterate, and innovate on ideas, narrative, and making beautiful things
• Creative vision: Design execution and quality of ideas work in equal partnership
• Collaborate with like-minded creative people who have radically different skill sets and together create ideas that envision an optimistic, progressive future
• Help shape the strategic vision for design that pushes the boundaries of the brand and build awareness for what we do and why it’s important to Stripe
• Partner widely with cross-functional teams to build upon great ideas through making things
• Give and solicit feedback from wide range of teammates and stakeholders

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

• 6+ years of relevant design and art direction experience for technology, cultural or editorial organizations 
• Impeccable book designer proficient in designing covers and interiors
• Substantive experience in the printing medium and book production processes
• Experience working on a variety of branding projects that exemplify expertise in design, typography, and art direction
• Strong track record independently delivering work as well as influencing the work of other designers, contractors, and agencies
• A strong strategic acumen for building leading brands or editorial in a fast paced environment
• Proficient in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud
• Exceptional craft; exquisite taste

Preferred qualifications

• Are genuinely curious, ambitious and creative with a refreshing sense of design, impeccable typography skills, digitally savvy and deep appreciation for creative process, technology
• Are persuasive and humble in explaining your work, process, and decisions and experienced at facilitating stakeholders to advance the project as well as design quality 
• Have excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication
• Love working with other designers to help them learn and grow—and invite them to help you learn and grow
• Experience working (collaboration and facilitation) with cross functional partners 

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