Staff Product Designer, Risk

Details

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Product Design team defines and delivers user-facing experiences across Stripe, working with engineers, product managers, researchers, strategists, operations, data scientists, and marketers.

The Risk team shapes how businesses get started on Stripe, build trust, stay compliant, and grow with confidence. This role focuses on turning complex systems into simple, intuitive experiences that reduce friction for legitimate businesses and help keep users and the Stripe ecosystem safe.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex systems, policies, and operational constraints into clear, thoughtful product experiences.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities that improve coherence across journeys, touchpoints, and surfaces.
• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, operations, and strategists to shape product direction and drive user and business outcomes.
• Develop long-term strategy and pragmatic short-term solutions.
• Design, prototype, and communicate ideas through creative storytelling and demos.
• Use qualitative and quantitative signals to inform decisions and evaluate impact.
• Raise the craft bar in a domain where quality and trust matter deeply.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure a high bar for craft and implementation quality.
• Contribute to shared patterns and systems that help the broader Risk organization build with coherence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant product design experience at a product-driven technology company.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating excellent craft, systems thinking, and end-to-end design, including a strong understanding of AI tools.
• Experience working on complex product areas with multiple stakeholders, constraints, and interconnected workflows.
• Strong product thinking and the ability to shape direction, not just execute against requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to prototype and design across multiple touchpoints and surfaces.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence through clear design rationale and artifacts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to think in systems and design solutions that scale across users, workflows, and surfaces.
• Strong product judgment and influence beyond the user interface.
• Commitment to quality from concept through implementation.
• Ability to move fluidly between big-picture thinking and interaction-level craft.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, strategic problem spaces.
• Comfort working in fast-moving environments where priorities may shift in response to policy, operational, or regulatory needs.