The opportunity
Stripe’s Narrative & Editorial team brings together Content Marketing, Brand Marketing, Portfolio Product Marketing, Copywriting, Copy Editing, and Customer Marketing. We create coherent, distinctive stories about the businesses, technologies, and economic forces shaping the internet.
What you'll do
Lead the editorial and creative direction for Stripe’s most important: external media partnerships, including advertising content, research-led collaborations, and original editorial programs developed with respected publishers and creators.
Develop work that feels native to the audience and editorial environment in: which it appears—not generic brand messaging placed beside someone else’s work.
Turn Stripe’s original data analyses, economic insights, customer stories,: and more into content pieces that are clear, surprising, useful, and memorable–and that readers and listeners won’t want to skip over.
Shape the full editorial process for partnership work: refining briefs, identifying the strongest ideas, directing creative development, and providing decisive feedback on drafts and final deliverables.
Direct and manage agencies, external creators, and editorial partners as: needed, working within existing partnership structures and commercial agreements.
Write, edit, and materially improve high-stakes content across formats,: including blog posts, newsletter segments, podcast scripts, ad copy, social posts, and more.
What they're looking for
- You have 8+ years of relevant experience in editorial, writing, creative: development, journalism, publishing, media, brand strategy, or a closely related field. This may include experience writing consistently for a large online followership, even if not professionally.
- You have an exceptional portfolio of published or public-facing work that: demonstrates strong writing and editing, original thinking, and an ability to make ideas resonate with an audience.
- You are, in the best sense, very online: an active reader of and contributor to the newsletters, social platforms, and niche communities where people debate new ideas about technology, economics, science, business, and culture. You can spot emerging arguments, voices, and formats early—and engage with them authentically, with intellectual honesty and your own point of view.
- You are an excellent editor. You can diagnose what is missing from a draft or: idea, identify the most interesting argument, and give feedback that makes the work materially better.
- You have experience developing original editorial work, sponsored media,: advertising, creative partnerships, or other high-quality audience-facing programs.
- You understand the difference between work that is merely on-message and work: that is genuinely interesting, useful, or worth discussing.
- You can translate complex subjects—including technology, business, economics,: science, or policy—into work that is accessible without becoming simplistic.
- You have strong creative instincts and a sophisticated design sensibility.: You understand how language, ideas, visuals, format, and distribution work together.
