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Who we are
About Stripe
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. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About The Team
The Design team works across most projects at Stripe—from our brand standards to campaigns, events, digital products, and even printed publications. And since Stripe’s main audience is other people who build products, we agonize over and take pride in crafting user-friendly and user-focused experiences. The Brand Design team lays the foundations that help Stripe accelerate. We do this by creating, evolving, and maintaining Stripe’s high-quality, versatile, and forward-looking visual identity design system. We sweat the details. We make it seem effortless. Our team—and our design efforts—are multipliers for Stripe and Stripes. Our focus on principles, systems, and standards makes it easier for all Stripes to get work done—at a high quality bar, while still creating space for evolution and innovation. Collaborating with other teams at Stripe, as well as select external partners, we raise the quality and consistency of interactions with the Stripe brand. Brand Designer leaders at Stripe demonstrate passion for great design and for expanding, evolving, defining, and documenting flexible design systems that achieve bar-raising quality and consistency for the brand at scale. They are user focused, have a strong understanding of the business, and are empathetic and inspiring team leaders. The ideal candidate excels across a variety of styles, crisply articulates design decisions, iterates quickly, and collaborates seamlessly with marketers, product managers, leaders, other designers, and agency partners.
About The Role
The headline in a campaign that runs during a game break. The sentence in a developer's first API moment. The story in a 90-second film that makes a fintech company feel like something worth believing in. They all start as an idea, and they all carry the same responsibility: to be precise, surprising, and genuinely worth someone's attention. We're looking for a Creative Director, Copy & Campaigns: someone who leads with language, thinks in concepts, and can also think in systems. This isn't a management role that occasionally writes, or a writing role that occasionally leads. It's both, fully. You'll generate the big campaign ideas and write the line that makes them land. You'll help set the creative vision for how Stripe shows up in the world, then stay close enough to the work to make it sharper. You'll direct agency partners without retreating into an approval layer. And you'll do the hard, underrated part of the job: selling the work through. That means building concepts strong enough that leadership buys them, and audiences buy into them. You'll also help navigate genuinely new territory: how a category-defining infrastructure company earns a place in culture, not just through product launches, but through the moments that move people. AI is reshaping how creative work gets made, and we're not looking for someone who has it all figured out. We're looking for someone actively and curiously building toward what creativity can become in this moment, and excited to do that here. If you want to run work at arm's length, this isn't the role. If you're excited by a role where the quality of your ideas, the sharpness of your copy, and the ambition you bring to the work all matter, this is a place to build.
What you’ll do
- Own the words. Lead concepting and copy across global campaigns, from the insight that unlocks a campaign to the headline that earns a second look to the narrative that builds the brand. This is a thinking-and-writing role. Consistently, not occasionally.
- Run campaigns end to end. Turn strategy into a sharp creative concept, then a clear POV, then work that ships across film, OOH, digital, and activations, distinctive at every touchpoint. Take ideas from blank page to bought to live.
- Get the work bought. Develop concepts that hold up under scrutiny and present them so they win: to senior leadership, to cross-functional partners, and ultimately to the audiences they're built to move.
- Lead Stripe's partnerships. Build creative strategies and executions that bring Stripe inside culture: sponsorship, storytelling, live moments.
- Partner with agencies. Collaborate on sharp briefs. Push thinking at the concept stage, not just the polish stage. Give feedback that moves the work forward, and stay close enough to know where it needs to go and how to help it get there.
- Build with AI, not just alongside it. Experiment actively in how you ideate and write, not to cut corners, but to expand what's possible. Build new workflows. Share what you learn.
- Make everyone around you sharper. Help writers be more precise, designers find their voice, and marketers think with more creative ambition. Expect the same in return.
- Shape what Stripe advertising becomes. Be a strong cross-functional voice connecting creative to business goals, user insights, and brand positioning. Raise the team's standards, ambitions, and culture of craft.
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. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in copywriting and creative direction, with work that shows strong language craft, strategic thinking, and breakthrough campaign concepts, ideally for product-driven or tech companies.
- 3+ years of experience managing teams, agencies, or creative partners in high-growth environments, with a clear ability to brief, concept, review, produce, and push work to a higher standard.
- A portfolio led by ideas, language, and sharp conceptual thinking. You are actively generating concepts, writing, visibly shaping the work, and staying close to the craft.
- A track record of selling ambitious work through: concepting ideas and presenting them in a way that earns buy-in from stakeholders and senior leadership without diluting them.
- Strong instincts across film, digital, print, OOH, and activations, with a pulse on culture and the ability to turn insights into concepts that earn attention.
- A genuine curiosity about AI in the creative process, including active experimentation and an honest perspective on how it can shape how creative work gets made.
- A strong partnership mindset, especially with producer leads. You work closely together to drive program success, maintain quality, manage alignment, and keep the work moving with clarity.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, align competing priorities, present to senior leadership, and bring people in on the creative.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in sports marketing, sponsorship activations, or brand-in-culture work, with a perspective of how brands earn credibility in spaces they don't own.
- Created concept-led work that generated real cultural traction and conversation, beyond media spend alone.
- Built or contributed to voice and tone systems, copy standards, or brand language infrastructure.
- Worked in environments where product and brand both had to work hard, and where the product itself was central to the story.
- Created award-caliber work, with the perspective to know awards are not always the goal, but they do have an important place in raising ambition, sharpening craft, and building a team's creative standard.
LOCATION
A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.
PAY AND BENEFITS
The annual US base salary range for this role is $194,900 - $292,300. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.
INTRODUCTION
Who we are
About Stripe
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. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About The Team
The Design team works across most projects at Stripe—from our brand standards to campaigns, events, digital products, and even printed publications. And since Stripe’s main audience is other people who build products, we agonize over and take pride in crafting user-friendly and user-focused experiences. The Brand Design team lays the foundations that help Stripe accelerate. We do this by creating, evolving, and maintaining Stripe’s high-quality, versatile, and forward-looking visual identity design system. We sweat the details. We make it seem effortless. Our team—and our design efforts—are multipliers for Stripe and Stripes. Our focus on principles, systems, and standards makes it easier for all Stripes to get work done—at a high quality bar, while still creating space for evolution and innovation. Collaborating with other teams at Stripe, as well as select external partners, we raise the quality and consistency of interactions with the Stripe brand. Brand Designer leaders at Stripe demonstrate passion for great design and for expanding, evolving, defining, and documenting flexible design systems that achieve bar-raising quality and consistency for the brand at scale. They are user focused, have a strong understanding of the business, and are empathetic and inspiring team leaders. The ideal candidate excels across a variety of styles, crisply articulates design decisions, iterates quickly, and collaborates seamlessly with marketers, product managers, leaders, other designers, and agency partners.
About The Role
The headline in a campaign that runs during a game break. The sentence in a developer's first API moment. The story in a 90-second film that makes a fintech company feel like something worth believing in. They all start as an idea, and they all carry the same responsibility: to be precise, surprising, and genuinely worth someone's attention. We're looking for a Creative Director, Copy & Campaigns: someone who leads with language, thinks in concepts, and can also think in systems. This isn't a management role that occasionally writes, or a writing role that occasionally leads. It's both, fully. You'll generate the big campaign ideas and write the line that makes them land. You'll help set the creative vision for how Stripe shows up in the world, then stay close enough to the work to make it sharper. You'll direct agency partners without retreating into an approval layer. And you'll do the hard, underrated part of the job: selling the work through. That means building concepts strong enough that leadership buys them, and audiences buy into them. You'll also help navigate genuinely new territory: how a category-defining infrastructure company earns a place in culture, not just through product launches, but through the moments that move people. AI is reshaping how creative work gets made, and we're not looking for someone who has it all figured out. We're looking for someone actively and curiously building toward what creativity can become in this moment, and excited to do that here. If you want to run work at arm's length, this isn't the role. If you're excited by a role where the quality of your ideas, the sharpness of your copy, and the ambition you bring to the work all matter, this is a place to build.
What you’ll do
- Own the words. Lead concepting and copy across global campaigns, from the insight that unlocks a campaign to the headline that earns a second look to the narrative that builds the brand. This is a thinking-and-writing role. Consistently, not occasionally.
- Run campaigns end to end. Turn strategy into a sharp creative concept, then a clear POV, then work that ships across film, OOH, digital, and activations, distinctive at every touchpoint. Take ideas from blank page to bought to live.
- Get the work bought. Develop concepts that hold up under scrutiny and present them so they win: to senior leadership, to cross-functional partners, and ultimately to the audiences they're built to move.
- Lead Stripe's partnerships. Build creative strategies and executions that bring Stripe inside culture: sponsorship, storytelling, live moments.
- Partner with agencies. Collaborate on sharp briefs. Push thinking at the concept stage, not just the polish stage. Give feedback that moves the work forward, and stay close enough to know where it needs to go and how to help it get there.
- Build with AI, not just alongside it. Experiment actively in how you ideate and write, not to cut corners, but to expand what's possible. Build new workflows. Share what you learn.
- Make everyone around you sharper. Help writers be more precise, designers find their voice, and marketers think with more creative ambition. Expect the same in return.
- Shape what Stripe advertising becomes. Be a strong cross-functional voice connecting creative to business goals, user insights, and brand positioning. Raise the team's standards, ambitions, and culture of craft.
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. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in copywriting and creative direction, with work that shows strong language craft, strategic thinking, and breakthrough campaign concepts, ideally for product-driven or tech companies.
- 3+ years of experience managing teams, agencies, or creative partners in high-growth environments, with a clear ability to brief, concept, review, produce, and push work to a higher standard.
- A portfolio led by ideas, language, and sharp conceptual thinking. You are actively generating concepts, writing, visibly shaping the work, and staying close to the craft.
- A track record of selling ambitious work through: concepting ideas and presenting them in a way that earns buy-in from stakeholders and senior leadership without diluting them.
- Strong instincts across film, digital, print, OOH, and activations, with a pulse on culture and the ability to turn insights into concepts that earn attention.
- A genuine curiosity about AI in the creative process, including active experimentation and an honest perspective on how it can shape how creative work gets made.
- A strong partnership mindset, especially with producer leads. You work closely together to drive program success, maintain quality, manage alignment, and keep the work moving with clarity.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, align competing priorities, present to senior leadership, and bring people in on the creative.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in sports marketing, sponsorship activations, or brand-in-culture work, with a perspective of how brands earn credibility in spaces they don't own.
- Created concept-led work that generated real cultural traction and conversation, beyond media spend alone.
- Built or contributed to voice and tone systems, copy standards, or brand language infrastructure.
- Worked in environments where product and brand both had to work hard, and where the product itself was central to the story.
- Created award-caliber work, with the perspective to know awards are not always the goal, but they do have an important place in raising ambition, sharpening craft, and building a team's creative standard.
LOCATION
A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.
PAY AND BENEFITS
The annual US base salary range for this role is $194,900 - $292,300. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.
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Verify your role meets specialty occupation
Check your job title against the O*NET occupation profile for your creative discipline. USCIS requires the role to routinely require a bachelor's degree in a specific field, broad creative titles without a defined degree requirement are the most common RFE trigger.
Build a portfolio that documents degree alignment
Your portfolio should connect your creative work directly to your degree field. UX designers with computer science degrees, art directors with fine arts credentials, USCIS looks for a logical nexus, so label projects to reflect that disciplinary grounding explicitly.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search Migrate Mate to identify creative employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for roles matching your discipline. Past LCA filings signal an established sponsorship process, which reduces the risk of an employer backing out mid-petition due to unfamiliarity with the costs or timeline.
Negotiate offer timing around the lottery window
H-1B registration opens in March for an October 1 start date. Secure your offer and complete premium processing paperwork before February so your employer can file during the registration window without rushing the LCA certification with DOL.
Confirm the employer will cover mandatory fees
USCIS prohibits employers from passing certain H-1B filing fees to you. Get written confirmation in your offer letter that the employer is covering I-129 filing and ACWIA training fees, this is especially common to overlook at smaller creative agencies.
Use the OFLC Wage Search before accepting an offer
Pull the prevailing wage for your exact SOC code and work location using the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating. Your offered salary must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage level your employer certified on the LCA, or your petition will be denied.
H-1B Visa Creative: Frequently Asked Questions
Do creative jobs qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Creative roles qualify when the position requires a bachelor's degree in a specific related field as a normal minimum. Roles like UX designer, art director, brand strategist, and content strategist commonly meet this standard. Generalist titles such as 'creative' or 'designer' without a defined degree requirement are harder to support and frequently draw RFEs from USCIS. Your employer's job description language matters as much as your credentials.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for creative roles?
Agencies, in-house creative teams at tech companies, media brands, and consulting firms with design practices are the most consistent H-1B sponsors for creative professionals. Migrate Mate lets you filter for employers with verified LCA filing history in creative occupations, so you're applying to companies that have already navigated the sponsorship process rather than those encountering it for the first time.
What degree do I need for an H-1B in a creative role?
USCIS requires a U.S. bachelor's degree or its equivalent in a field directly related to the job. For UX roles that might be human-computer interaction, cognitive science, or computer science. For brand or content roles it could be marketing, communications, or journalism. A fine arts degree supports art direction or visual design. A degree in an unrelated field weakens the petition even if you have years of professional experience in the creative field.
Can a small creative agency sponsor my H-1B?
Yes, there's no minimum company size for H-1B sponsorship. Small agencies can file, but they face more USCIS scrutiny on financial ability to pay the prevailing wage and on whether the role truly requires a specialized degree. Agencies that have sponsored before are better positioned to handle RFEs. If you're evaluating a small agency, ask whether they've sponsored H-1B employees previously and whether they work with an immigration attorney.
What happens to my H-1B if I switch creative employers?
You can transfer your H-1B to a new employer through a process called H-1B portability under AC21, which lets you start working for the new employer as soon as they file the transfer petition, without waiting for approval. The new employer files a fresh I-129 petition, and your new role must still qualify as a specialty occupation. You don't re-enter the lottery. Gaps between employment are generally limited to a 60-day grace period.