[Hiring] Editorial Director, Brand & Creative Partnerships @Stripe

Role Description

We are hiring a senior editorial leader to help bring original stories and insights from Stripe–based on our data, expertise, and customer conversations–to a broader audience via media partnerships and other brand marketing channels. This person will be an exceptional editor, writer, and creative partner with strong instincts about what earns attention: an argument worth making, an unexpected angle, an elegant execution, or a piece of work that people genuinely want to share.

This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the leader of Stripe’s Narrative & Editorial team. The role will spend most of its time shaping major external media partnerships, with the remainder split between helping with original editorial work and advising partner teams on new ideas and their execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the editorial and creative direction for Stripe’s most important external media partnerships, including advertising content, research-led collaborations, and original editorial programs developed with respected publishers and creators.
• Develop work that feels native to the audience and editorial environment in which it appears—not generic brand messaging placed beside someone else’s work.
• Turn Stripe’s original data analyses, economic insights, customer stories, and more into content pieces that are clear, surprising, useful, and memorable–and that readers and listeners won’t want to skip over.
• Shape the full editorial process for partnership work: refining briefs, identifying the strongest ideas, directing creative development, and providing decisive feedback on drafts and final deliverables.
• Direct and manage agencies, external creators, and editorial partners as needed, working within existing partnership structures and commercial agreements.
• Write, edit, and materially improve high-stakes content across formats, including blog posts, newsletter segments, podcast scripts, ad copy, social posts, and more.
• Generate original concepts for creative programs, editorial franchises, and nontraditional formats that broaden how Stripe contributes to conversations about the internet economy.
• Serve as a trusted thought partner to teams across Stripe, helping them clarify ideas, find the strongest expression of their work, and make better creative decisions.
• Partner with colleagues in Brand Marketing, Brand Design, Content Marketing, Portfolio PMM, Copywriting, and Customer Marketing to make Stripe’s storytelling more coherent and distinctive.
• Define and uphold a clear quality bar for editorial and partnership work, making well-reasoned calls about what is ready to represent Stripe and what still needs improvement.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in editorial, writing, creative development, journalism, publishing, media, brand strategy, or a closely related field.
• Exceptional portfolio of published or public-facing work that demonstrates strong writing and editing, original thinking, and an ability to make ideas resonate with an audience.
• Active reader of and contributor to newsletters, social platforms, and niche communities discussing technology, economics, science, business, and culture.
• Excellent editing skills with the ability to diagnose what is missing from a draft or idea and provide constructive feedback.
• Experience developing original editorial work, sponsored media, advertising, creative partnerships, or other high-quality audience-facing programs.
• Ability to translate complex subjects into accessible content without oversimplifying.
• Strong creative instincts and a sophisticated design sensibility.
• Deep curiosity about the technology industry and its broader cultural and economic context.
• Comfort in influencing senior stakeholders, external partners, and teams without relying on formal authority.
• Ability to move fluidly between strategy and execution, from developing core ideas to making final quality decisions.
• High standards, sound judgment, and pragmatism to help teams create excellent work within real constraints.