Creative Director, Copy & Campaigns

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 team works across most projects at Stripe—from our brand standards to campaigns, events, digital products, and even printed publications. And since Stripe’s main audience is other people who build products, we agonize over and take pride in crafting user-friendly and user-focused experiences. 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. We sweat the details. We make it seem effortless. Our team—and our design 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. Brand Designer leaders at Stripe demonstrate passion for great design and for expanding, evolving, defining, and documenting flexible design systems that achieve bar-raising quality and consistency for the brand at scale. They are user focused, have a strong understanding of the business, and are empathetic and inspiring team leaders. The ideal candidate excels across a variety of styles, crisply articulates design decisions, iterates quickly, and collaborates seamlessly with marketers, product managers, leaders, other designers, and agency partners. About the role The headline in a campaign that runs during a game break. The sentence in a developer's first API moment. The story in a 90-second film that makes a fintech company feel like something worth believing in. They all start as an idea, and they all carry the same responsibility: to be precise, surprising, and genuinely worth someone's attention. We're looking for a Creative Director, Copy & Campaigns: someone who leads with language, thinks in concepts, and can also think in systems. This isn't a management role that occasionally writes, or a writing role that occasionally leads. It's both, fully. You'll generate the big campaign ideas and write the line that makes them land. You'll help set the creative vision for how Stripe shows up in the world, then stay close enough to the work to make it sharper. You'll direct agency partners without retreating into an approval layer. And you'll do the hard, underrated part of the job: selling the work through. That means building concepts strong enough that leadership buys them, and audiences buy into them. You'll also help navigate genuinely new territory: how a category-defining infrastructure company earns a place in culture, not just through product launches, but through the moments that move people. AI is reshaping how creative work gets made, and we're not looking for someone who has it all figured out. We're looking for someone actively and curiously building toward what creativity can become in this moment, and excited to do that here. If you want to run work at arm's length, this isn't the role. If you're excited by a role where the quality of your ideas, the sharpness of your copy, and the ambition you bring to the work all matter, this is a place to build. What you’ll do Own the words. Lead concepting and copy across global campaigns, from the insight that unlocks a campaign to the headline that earns a second look to the narrative that builds