Motion Designer, Stripe Identity

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

The Stripe Brand Studio is a multi-disciplinary team that accelerates the awareness and trajectory of our brand. We craft the creative vision and strategy for different types of projects and audiences, and amplify them across various mediums, channels, objects to environments, and digital and physical experiences.

What it asks for · 9

• 6+ years of relevant design and art direction experience for technical and product-driven companies.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in art, or equivalent professional experience.
• Have a strong strategic acumen for building leading brands in a fast-paced, global facing environment.
• Are a systems-thinker and excel at extrapolating and extending shared patterns and behaviors.
• Proven excellence in effective art direction, and building and extending 3d illustration systems.
• Have proven track record of using and building AI tools to create exceptional work in new ways
• Have the ability to express and communicate a brand through distinct graphics, patterns, motion, interaction, and video.
• Can effectively communicate concepts, direction and decisions with the team and with external partners.
• Strong track record independently delivering work as well as collaborating with and influencing the work of other designers, contractors, and agencies.

Also a plus

• Find a meaningful balance between optimizing for speed, quality, and doing risky, interesting, pixel-perfect work.
• Are persuasive and humble in explaining your work, process, and decisions and crave feedback to help you design at your best.
• Love working with other designers to help them learn and grow—and have them help you learn and grow.

What the job covers

• Work across the Stripe brand ecosystem to develop, establish and create illustration and motion styles in close partnership with brand, product design, and marketing.
• Create photo-realistic 3d compositions that tell editorial stories in static and motion and a variety of advertising surfaces from billboards to video.
• Champion and influence how the Stripe brands expresses itself through image and motion and develop guidelines, systems, and processes to ensure quality and consistency at scale.
• Work collaboratively with non-motion designers, elevating and informing each others’ work.
• Oversee quality and consistency of 3d illustration/motion and how it is used to express our brand—from product, to advertising campaigns and events.
• Oversee the work of external teams in creative strategy, execution, and production.
• Collaborate with designers, researchers, product managers, marketers, and other cross-functional partners to serve a global audience.
• Inspire, create and sustain a culture of excellence by expanding and evolving our best practices, design process, and ideation.
• Stay curious and experimental as an avid maker, obsessed with tinkering and tool building with AI to create beautiful things
• Shape a strategic vision that pushes brand boundaries and builds internal awareness of design’s impact at Stripe

Degree language

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in art, or equivalent professional experience.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• brand15×
• design7×
• create6×
• building5×
• designers5×
• motion5×
• quality5×
• experience4×
• illustration4×
• partners4×
• product4×
• requirements4×
• systems4×
• collaborate3×
• consistency3×
• evolving3×

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