Design Manager, Web Presence

About the Role

As one of two Design Managers on the Presence team, you'll lead a group of exceptional designers focused on key initiatives across stripe.com, link.com, Bridge and Sessions. You'll own the creative direction for areas like acquisition, global expansion, experimentation, and our annual customer event, Sessions.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a high-performing design team, with a focus on feedback, coaching, and long-term career development
• Inspire and motivate the team to do their best work while creating a clear design vision that aligns with Stripe's goals
• Craft novel moments of storytelling and delight for our web presence and uphold our quality standards
• Balance growth with putting users first while upholding a very high quality bar
• Champion curiosity and adoption of new AI tools and the evolving our ways of working
• Understanding global needs and design systems, including knowing when to stick to the system vs when it's okay to break away from it
• Often work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical deliverables
• Advocate for design excellence at every stage of the product lifecycle, balancing speed, quality, and bold experimentation
• Work with other design specialists and managers on team-wide initiatives, like recruiting and developing content standards
• Influence strategic decisions across all the corners of our web presence
• Partner with marketing, comms, growth, and Link teams to define information architecture and tell the right stories
• Work closely with the team to help scale our design systems, devise generative art directions, propose web animations, and distill interaction-heavy product launch materials on sites such as stripe.com

Requirements

• 6 years+ of creative direction and management experience, and 9+ years of relevant experience in strategy, information architecture, web design and creative technology experience at digital native agencies, and/or tech-forward, product-driven companies.
• Leadership in driving strategic thinking for impactful digital experiences
• Conviction in the web as a storytelling medium, demonstrable through a portfolio of design systems, engaging microsites, Figma libraries, WebGL experiments, CSS art, or anything else,you tell us
• Expert understanding of the formal elements of design, not just limited to the web but including typography, layout, balance, and proportion

Preferred Qualifications

• Sufficiently advanced knowledge of modern HTML and CSS to empathise with and lead the designers and design engineers crafting our web presence
• A tenacity for moving quickly on new, green-field projects while steadfastly delivering on long-term roadmaps
• Experience at a company with global scale, expanding to new markets, leading localization strategy and integrating with l10n.
• Accountability and a high bar when working with production systems
• A demonstrable ability to communicate your front-end or information architecture designs using documentation and crisp visualisation
• Intuition and empathy to gather consensus amongst different stakeholders and subject matter experts

Who You Are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.

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Duties and Responsibilities

Understand client’s requirements and artistic style of various projects

You will be responsible for understanding the client's requirements and artistic style of various projects. This includes providing art guidance for the Chinese production team and ensuring that the visual direction and quality control of work meet the client's expectations.

Building rapport, trust, and clear lines of communication with clients

You will be responsible for building rapport, trust, and clear lines of communication with clients. This includes establishing a good working relationship with clients and ensuring that their needs are met.

Help with estimation, team feedback and pipeline development

You will be responsible for helping with estimation, team feedback, and pipeline development. This includes assisting with project timelines, communicating client art feedback, and establishing processes.

Leading teams of artists by instruction and setting example

You will be responsible for leading teams of artists by instruction and setting example. This includes guiding and mentoring artists to ensure that they meet the required standards.

Define and communicate the key components of the project style and design

You will be responsible for defining and communicating the key components of the project style and design. This includes identifying the key elements of the project and ensuring that they are communicated effectively to the team.

Collaborate with different 3D Art teams, coordinate resources and projects between multiple internal Chinese and external teams and studios

You will be responsible for collaborating with different 3D Art teams, coordinating resources and projects between multiple internal Chinese and external teams and studios.

Requirements

• Passionate about games, proven 3+ years art leadership working experience as in either the game industry or related entertainment industry.
• Excellent Chinese and English (written and verbal) skills.
• Strong game production work experience showcasing top quality work.
• Ability to work in multiple software packages and game engines (i.e. 3DS Max, Maya, Zbrush, Unreal, Unity).
• Expert understanding of industry standard techniques and tools.
• Excellent communication skills, with an understanding for the value of listening to as well as providing feedback, confidence to ask the right questions.
• Team Player, quick learner and self-motivated.
• Enthusiasm to expand knowledge in keeping with industry evolution.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Fun working environment
• Working with the biggest names in the gaming industry

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