Stripe is hiring a Staff Product Designer, Link in 8811 Product Design — NYC. The overview below is synthesized from the employer posting on stripe.com: factual requirements and scope are preserved, but prose is rewritten with editorial context. Verify details and apply via the employer link.
Who we are
About Stripe
Company context from the listing:
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.
About the team
Company context from the listing:
The Link team builds the global, consumer network for next-generation commerce, using our base of 300M+ registered consumers to pioneer the future of Identity, Consumer Finance, and AI-driven transactions. While our foundation was built on high-conversion merchant payments and a flexible digital wallet, we are expanding far beyond.
We think of Link as the wallet for the internet — and we're building for what's next.
What you'll do
Day-to-day scope for the Staff Product Designer, Link as described in the posting:
As a Staff Designer on Link, you'll lead the visual design direction for some of Link's newest and most ambitious bets. You'll define what a product looks like and feels like, bring visual conviction to early-stage concepts, and shape Link's expanding consumer presence across Stripe’s checkout, with our AI partners, and in Link’s own app.
Responsibilities
Day-to-day scope for the Staff Product Designer, Link as described in the posting:
- Define the visual design direction for net-new Link products and surfaces from the ground up across mobile and web
- Lead design exploration on early-stage, pre-roadmap opportunities from initial concept through launch
- Build new visual languages, component patterns, and design systems for products that don't exist yet
- Partner with brand designers to extend and evolve Link's visual identity into new product categories
- Shape early product strategy through design exploration and rapid prototyping, making abstract opportunities tangible for product and engineering partners
- Represent Link's design vision in senior reviews and establish the creative bar for new product areas
Who you are
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
The listing frames the Staff Product Designer, Link at Stripe as a hands-on product role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- 8+ years of product design experience with a strong visual and mobile design foundation
- Portfolio with clear 0-1 work and products you took from concept to launch where you defined the visual language
- Demonstrated ability to create cohesive, distinctive visual systems for new products from scratch
- Deep fluency across visual design, interaction design, and prototyping
- Experience working in high-ambiguity environments where you framed the problem before solving it
Preferred qualifications
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- Ability to design and prototype in code
- Strong independence and an ability to advocate for a larger design vision with cross-functional stakeholders
- Ability to reduce complex problems down to the right balance of flexibility, power, and ease of use
- Skilled in explaining your work, process, and decisions to cross-functional stakeholders and crave feedback to help you produce your best work