Editorial Director, Brand & Creative Partnerships
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Editorial Director shaping Stripe’s external media partnerships and original storytelling. Turning financial-infrastructure insights, data, and customer stories into compelling audience-facing content.
Responsibilities:
- Lead editorial and creative direction for Stripe’s external media partnerships, including advertising content, research-led collaborations, and original editorial programs
- Develop audience-native work rather than generic brand messaging
- Turn Stripe’s data analyses, economic insights, and customer stories into clear, surprising, useful, and memorable content
- Shape the editorial process by refining briefs, identifying strong ideas, directing creative development, and providing feedback on drafts and deliverables
- Direct and manage agencies, external creators, and editorial partners
- Write, edit, and improve content across blogs, newsletters, podcasts, advertising, social media, and other formats
- Generate concepts for creative programs, editorial franchises, and nontraditional formats
- Advise teams across Stripe and serve as a trusted thought partner on creative decisions
- Collaborate with Brand Marketing, Brand Design, Content Marketing, Portfolio PMM, Copywriting, and Customer Marketing
- Define and uphold quality standards for editorial and partnership work
Requirements:
- 8+ years of relevant experience in editorial, writing, creative development, journalism, publishing, media, brand strategy, or a closely related field
- Exceptional portfolio of published or public-facing work demonstrating strong writing and editing, original thinking, and audience resonance
- Active engagement with newsletters, social platforms, and niche communities focused on technology, economics, science, business, and culture
- Excellent editing skills, including diagnosing gaps, identifying compelling arguments, and improving work through feedback
- Experience developing original editorial work, sponsored media, advertising, creative partnerships, or other high-quality audience-facing programs
- Ability to translate complex subjects into accessible, non-simplistic work
- Strong creative instincts and sophisticated design sensibility
- Deep curiosity about the technology industry and its cultural and economic context
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders, external partners, writers, designers, marketers, and agencies without formal authority
- Ability to move between strategy and execution
- High standards, sound judgment, and pragmatism












