Staff Program Manager, Event Design

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses that helps companies accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. The Staff Program Manager, Event Design will lead brand design operations and creative production across Stripe’s internal and external events, managing programs, projects, agencies, budgets, timelines, and cross-functional collaboration while upholding design quality.

Responsibilities:

• Lead experiential program management across roadmap development, budget oversight, project scoping, timelines, resourcing, partner relationships, cross-functional communication, and scalable approaches that create clear paths forward
• Manage a high volume of simultaneous projects, ranging from small to large scale
• Partner closely with the Experiential Creative Director to further scale and evolve event design at Stripe; optimize processes to streamline how work is done
• Partner closely with the Corporate Events team to ensure smooth execution and integration of event brand design across all surfaces
• Ensure smooth collaboration with leadership, creatives, cross-functional partners, and vendors
• Own project management through documentation, tooling, trackers, standing meetings, org-wide updates, and Slack
• Source, onboard, and oversee external creative agencies
• Connect silos, socialize changes, anticipate risks, and provide actionable solutions for escalation to Brand Studio leadership
• Navigate challenges and blockers with ease; proactive in finding solutions, and always looking ahead for the team
• Uphold and advocate for design quality with cross-functional teams and vendors to exceed engagement and registration goals
• Inspire and sustain a culture of excellence by collaborating with creatives in best practices and processes

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in similar roles and industries
• Think users first—understand their needs, find interesting and unique solutions, and strive to consistently optimize how to best engage with them
• Have a strong strategic acumen for developing complex program roadmaps and cross-functional processes in a fast-paced environment
• Can demonstrate strong design sense, industry knowledge and best practices, have deep knowledge producing complex brand and event design systems, and bringing design assets to life across the creative production process
• Proven excellence in producing creative systems that are optimized for scale and growth
• Highly detail oriented and excel at simplifying complexity
• Strong track record successfully influencing outcomes both internally and with agency partners
• Can balance optimizing for speed and quality, with high craft and quality creative work
• Are persuasive in explaining your work, process, and decisions
• Excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication
• Are passionate about Stripe's mission