Design Program Manager, AI

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 Design organization at Stripe builds the product and brand experiences that millions of businesses and developers rely on. We’re a cross-functional, global organization composed of product designers, content designers, design researchers, design systems engineers, motion designers, and design program specialists. Our mission is to make economic infrastructure simple and accessible — and design plays a central role in making complex flows understandable, crafting clear product language, and building consistent systems that scale. As AI becomes central to how product teams design, build, and iterate, we’re investing in tooling, platform services, and workflows that amplify designers’ impact. You will help shape that investment by partnering with design, engineering, research, and product teams to build and deliver reliable, safe, and useful AI-assisted tooling that improves designer productivity, creativity, and consistency across Stripe. What you’ll do Focused on accelerating the integration of AI into Design, as a Design Program Manager, you'll collaborate closely with designers, researchers, content designers, and design engineers working across brand, product, and marketing experiences at Stripe. You'll build alongside them, and you'll help them fundamentally change how they operate. Your measure of success is the number of workflows you've permanently transformed and the extent to which Design Stripes default to using AI as a part of their work. Responsibilities Identify and document the highest-leverage workflow transformations within Design's day-to-day work by deeply understanding their processes and outputs Partner with designers to understand their workflow and responsibilities and imagine AI-powered tools and agents that left-shift and accelerate velocity Build custom tools, agents, automations, and skills tailored to Design’s specific workflows and responsibilities. Enable and uplevel designers to build and iterate on their own tools over time, creating independence Recognize patterns across Design and systematically scale what works — a tool built for one designer should become reusable for their peers Document every tool, playbook, and transformation pattern you build so the entire team can use each other's work Share wins visibly across Design and with leadership to build momentum, inspire, and celebrate success Track individual and cohort progress rigorously against a defined maturity model, moving every Design Stripe toward self-sustaining, AI-accelerated work Prepare designers for an agentic future—not just prompt writing, but designing, building, and overseeing autonomous, multi-agent workflows Ensure all tooling meets expectations around quality, security, and performance Source and evaluate vendors when needed and interface with legal, security, and procurement teams to onboard and pay vendors, including facilitating statements of work and negotiating business terms and budget Who you are We're looking for people who have already lived the transformation they'll be driving for others. You've used AI to fundamentally change how you work — not as a novelty, but as your default operating mode. You are a deep AI practitioner. You build agents, automations, and tools fluently. You don't just know what AI can do in theory — you've built things that changed how real work gets done. You can build in real time alongside the people you support. You are an exceptional coach and communicat