The best financial interfaces disappear. They don't ask to be admired — they earn their place by making a merchant in Lagos feel the same certainty as an enterprise CFO in London. That quiet confidence is what drew me to Stripe's work for nearly a decade, and it's why I'm writing about the Head of Design role.
For the past four years at Google, I led the redesign of Maps across 180 markets — a project that taught me how design decisions at platform scale ripple into lives. We shipped a new navigation system to two billion users, cut task-completion time by 34%, and — the metric I care about most — raised trust scores in emerging markets where Maps is now used as civic infrastructure.
Before Google, I spent five years at Airbnb, where I built the checkout experience from the studs up. The framework we introduced still underpins their booking flow today.
What excites me about Stripe isn't the API, elegant as it is — it's the opportunity to shape how money moves in the next decade. Financial UX sits at the intersection of clarity, consequence, and empathy: a misplaced decimal isn't a bug, it's a violation of trust. I want to lead a team that treats that weight as the craft itself.
I'd welcome a conversation about where design can take Stripe next — particularly around embedded finance, platform experiences, and the tools your merchants reach for on their hardest days. Thank you for your time and consideration.