Data Writer and Editor
Role summary
Stripe is seeking an entrepreneurial, analytical, and curious Data Writer and Editor to join its Editorial Team. This role involves partnering closely with Stripe's chief economist to analyze large datasets covering millions of companies and trillions of dollars in transactions. The goal is to identify macroeconomic trends, industry shifts, and innovation, translating these findings into compelling written content for diverse audiences including startup founders, business leaders, and policymakers. Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership of data stories, from hypothesis to publication, creating clear data visualizations, and distributing content across various channels like Substack and social media. The role also requires leveraging AI tools for analysis and writing, and collaborating with internal teams like Data Science and Policy, as well as external researchers and journalists.
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.
Our Editorial Team
Stripe’s Editorial team is premised on two notions: that ideas are essential ingredients in fueling economic progress; and that many of the best ideas are under valued. Works in Progress, our magazine of underrated schemes to improve the world, recently branched out into print subscriptions. Stripe Press, our in-house imprint canonizes ideas for Progress—new and old—in beautiful editions. The team recently celebrated one million books sold.
One consequence of building infrastructure at Stripe’s scale is that we see the economy forming in real time. New categories appear before they have names. New business models take shape quietly, then suddenly feel inevitable. Patterns emerge in how people build, sell, hire, and get paid. These signals matter — and sharing them helps policymakers, business leaders, media and the public better understand where the economy is headed.
What you’ll do
We are looking for an entrepreneurial, analytical, curious data writer and editor to join Stripe’s editorial team. In this role, you will partner closely with Stripe’s chief economist to explore datasets that cover millions of companies and trillions of dollars of transactions, and uncover macroeconomic trends, industry shifts, and pockets of innovation. You’ll turn them into enthralling writing for internet audiences including startup founders, other business leaders, policymakers, and media. You’ll distribute your stories across lots of channels, including new ones you’ll run (e.g. Substack), traditional media, social media (you’ll probably tweet a lot yourself), and keynotes delivered by our founders. You'll use LLMs and other AI tools to rapidly prototype analysis, writing, and visuals.
Responsibilities
Who You Are
You're highly entrepreneurial, enjoying devising and launching new ideas, and relentlessly improving what we already do. You have a knack for turning raw data into a clear insight, a memorable chart, and a story people want to read. You bring taste, curiosity, and a strong editorial point of view, alongside the technical ability to work with data. You have a journalist's instincts — drawn to early signals, skeptical of easy narratives, and motivated by explaining not just what is happening, but why it matters. You care about craft, write well, and enjoy working across disciplines to turn complex systems into clear, rigorous stories.