Staff Product Designer, Checkout

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept payments, grow revenue, and launch new opportunities. The Staff Product Designer will lead visual and interaction design for Stripe Checkout surfaces, shape product strategy through exploration and prototyping, and evolve the checkout design system while partnering with product and engineering teams.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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