Product Designer, Developer Platform & Extensibility

Who we areAbout 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 Product Design team is composed of several teams that work together to help define, create, and deliver all user-facing aspects of the Stripe brand and product. Product Designers are strategic partners to Engineering and Product Management within a dedicated product area. In partnership with the product team, they help define the user-facing experiences our users encounter on Stripe products, then translate that thinking into a complete experience that can be tested, shipped, and refined. They are responsible for creating well-functioning and beautiful products and experiences that users love and are eager to recommend to others.

What you’ll do

Areas you could work on

• Our platform-wide extensibility strategy, which allows developers to build on top of Stripe to extend our functionality in new ways
• Stripe Apps, our app platform that allows developers extend directly into the dashboard and other surfaces, such as embedded apps and more
• Knitting our new set of developer experiences into a cohesive platform that helps developers make the most of Stripe’s tools and APIs
• The future of developer tools at Stripe, including Workbench, improvements to test mode, API upgrades, and new tools we haven’t even thought of yet

Responsibilities

• Design industry-leading developer tools that push the boundaries beyond what’s already on the market
• Craft experiences that allow third-parties to extend directly into our dashboard, unlocking new ways of working on Stripe
• Make it easier for developers to build and test their integrations, as well as discover new Stripe products 
• Turn ambiguous problems that our users are facing into concrete products, from proposal, to kick-off, vision, building, and launch—both for merchants and developers building on top of Stripe
• Shape the developer experience + extensibility roadmap by prototyping and pitching new ideas we haven’t even thought of yet, and gaining cross-functional buy-in
• Work closely with our partner teams, including Apps, Docs, Connect, and more, to create an end-to-end developer experience that feels coherent
• Advocate for extensibility internally, ensuring teams building into the dashboard understand the power it can unlock for our users
• Focus on what you do best—whether that’s sketches, wireframes, prototypes, designs, or code—you’ll have the opportunity to sharpen the skills you’re looking to develop
• Work in a highly collaborative fashion with the design, product, and project teams
• Partner closely with our user research team and support ongoing research projects
• Participate in design reviews and share your work regularly with design and company leadership

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

• Has 4+ years relevant design experience at a tech, product-driven company
• Has experience working on developer tools, working with developers—or even writing code yourself
• Has an understanding of developers, their needs, and an eagerness to learn about how we can help them integrate with Stripe

Preferred qualifications

• Has worked on app platforms/marketplaces in the past, and can dig into the nuances of different extensibility types (e.g allowing developers to embed directly within our own pages)
• Ability to reduce complex problems down to the right balance of flexibility, power, and ease of use, especially when explaining complicated developer experiences to non-technical stakeholders
• Understanding of the developer tooling landscape and what tools developers are using today—bonus points if you’ve used some of these tools yourself 
• Have a deep curiosity (or excitement) about the developer space, and aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty in some code
• Are skilled in explaining your work, process, and decisions to cross-functional stakeholders and crave feedback to help you produce your best work
• Comfortable presenting work to senior stakeholders regularly
• Loves working with other designers to help them learn and grow—and have them help you learn and grow
• Are uncompromisingly service-minded towards our users and your colleagues, but able to set and achieve priorities that find the perfect balance between benefiting the project, the Design team, and all of Stripe