[Hiring] Staff Product Designer @Stripe

Role Description

As a Staff Designer on Checkout, you'll lead the visual and interaction design direction for our most opinionated and optimized checkout surfaces. You’ll define how checkouts should flex to support emerging business models and underserved verticals, taking complex merchant needs and translating them to simple, conversion-optimized solutions. You’ll also contribute to and evolve the backing design system for our checkout surfaces.

Responsibilities

• Define the design direction for new features and checkout surfaces across the conversion funnel
• Lead design explorations from initial concept through launch
• Evolve and push boundaries on visual language, component patterns, and design systems
• Shape early product strategy through design exploration and rapid prototyping, making abstract opportunities tangible for product and engineering partners
• Represent Checkout in senior reviews and establish the creative bar for new product directions

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience at a tech, product-driven company
• Deep fluency in visual design, interaction design, systems thinking, and prototyping with AI tools
• Experience leading complex work in close partnership with product management, engineering, and design leadership
• Experience shaping ambiguous spaces and driving clarity through design
• Confident presenting work to senior leaders and skilled at communicating design decisions through clear, compelling storytelling

Requirements

• Experience leading changes to a design system
• Skilled in explaining your work, process, and decisions to cross-functional stakeholders and crave feedback to help you produce your best work
• Background in SaaS, e-commerce, or fintech products