Who we are
About 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
Stripe Press publishes ideas for economic, scientific and technological progress. Our mission is to inspire optimism, accelerate research and development, encourage entrepreneurship, and share knowledge as an avenue to expand opportunity. What started as a scrappy project has blossomed into a publishing imprint that sells hundreds of thousands of books to an enthusiastic and diverse community of readers, as well as an award-winning feature length documentary, several short films, real-world events, and a podcast documentary series. Stripe Press sits within the Brand Communications team, which is responsible for building Stripe’s influence and shaping the company’s long-term brand legacy.
Works in Progress is an online magazine dedicated to sharing new and underrated ideas to improve the world, and features original writing from some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. It sits alongside Stripe Press.
What you’ll do
As well as books and longread online articles, Stripe Press and Works in Progress make short documentaries and feature films, social media videos, podcasts, events, and more. We want to do more of these, and we need someone who is high agency, conscientious, and good at practical, hands-on work. You will help us to plan and execute on these “non-book” projects, in collaboration with the rest of the team.
You’ll be working closely with the rest of the Stripe Press and Works in Progress teams to develop ideas into projects, plan them out, and work as part of the project team to make them happen. This will involve a mixture of creative work around what a project should actually involve, management of the project, and execution to actually pull it off. You should be someone who is happy to muck in on different parts of the project, and who is eager to work across different types of media.
For example, you might partner with someone to come up with a new podcast series, and work with them to make the series interesting, plan it out, work with external contractors to produce and edit it, and help with the marketing and distribution to reach the audiences we want to get to. We want someone who is happy to work at any and every stage of a process like this, and not intimidated if they haven’t worked on some of these elements before.
We’re particularly keen to find people who are interested in the sort of topics that Stripe Press and Works in Progress focus on, and have a good sense already of what makes these special and distinct from other media outlets.
Responsibilities
- Project managing films, podcasts, and other non-book projects for Stripe Press and Works in Progress, and working to get these projects completed.
- Developing new ideas and projects to further our work on scientific, technological and economic progress.
- Developing processes to allow others to work more effectively on projects you’re not running.
- Managing relationships with external creative partners (eg, agencies, freelancers, etc.)
- Negotiating and managing project statements of work, budget estimates, and vendor contracts, working with Stripe’s legal and finance teams.
- Owning systems for project documentation, status tracking, and communication to ensure stakeholders and team members are involved at the right times, understand project health and decisions, and follow through on their commitments.
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who is familiar with, and passionate about, the ideas that drive Stripe Press and Works in Progress’s work in scientific, technological and economic progress, and who has a track record of owning and delivering complex creative projects of the kind we’ve mentioned. We want a person who can switch contexts and explore new mediums and still feel comfortable, so being versatile and interested in experimenting with new mediums is very helpful.
If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience bringing complex projects and productions to completion.
- Excellent project management skills and a strong grasp of project management tools.
- Ownership mindset for production work, with experience leading projects that span disciplines.
- Exceptional organizational and people skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- The ability to work independently with limited guidance.
- A passion for Stripe Press and Works in Progress’s themes of scientific, technological and economic progress.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in video and/or audio production is a big plus, but for an otherwise outstanding candidate it is not required.
Pay and benefits
The annual US base salary range for this role is $113,600 – $153,600. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.