Motion Designer, Stripe Identity

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 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. The Stripe brand identity team is responsible for defining and evolving Stripe’s visual identity, and bringing the Stripe brand to life in new and impactful ways across surfaces. Our goal is to enable the creation of a coherent, high quality brand experience across the user journey, building recognition and trust in Stripe at every turn. We collaborate with other design systems teams to translate our brand for Stripe.com and Dashboard, and partner with teams across the company on high impact user-facing projects to create work that feels authentic to Stripe at scale. What you'll do Motion Designers at Stripe demonstrate a passion for the craft of movement and a deep understanding of how motion communicates brand character. As a member of the Identity team, you will be responsible for defining and elevating Stripe's motion language across new and existing surfaces. Motion designers at Stripe demonstrate passion for great design and for expanding, evolving, defining, and documenting flexible motion systems that achieve bar-raising quality and consistency for the brand at scale. The ideal candidate is technically fluent, crisply articulates motion decisions, and collaborates seamlessly with other designers, engineers, marketers, and agency partners. Responsibilities • Execute motion design direction across Stripe's brand ecosystem—from concept through final delivery • Champion and influence how the Stripe brand expresses itself through image and motion and develop guidelines, systems, and processes to ensure quality and consistency at scale • Contribute to and maintain Stripe's motion design system: principles, timing tokens, animation guidelines, and reusable motion components • Work collaboratively with non-motion designers, elevating and informing each other’s work • Coordinate with external motion and production studios or contractors in creative strategy, execution, and delivery • Share motion knowledge and best practices with teammates • Stay curious and experimental as an avid maker, obsessed with tinkering and iterating to create beautiful things • Shape a strategic vision that pushes brand boundaries and builds internal awareness of design’s impact at Stripe Who you are We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. Requirements • Have 5+ years of relevant motion design experience for technical, brand-driven, or product-led organizations • Expert command of motion design tools: After Effects, Cinema 4D (or Houdini), AI tools, and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite • Strong portfolio demonstrating high-craft motion work—including brand identity systems, campaign work, in-product animation, and/or data-driven motion • Deep understanding of animation principles: timing, easing, staging, anticipation, and how motion communicates meaning and brand character • Are a systems-thinker and excel at extrapolating and extending shared patterns and behaviors • Working knowledge of emerging motion and AI tools and how they fit into a professional production workflow • Strong track record delivering high-quality motion work independently, and in close collaboration with cross-functional partners • Find a meaningful balance between optimizing for speed, quality, and doing challenging, interesting, frame-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 • Have excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication • Highly detail-oriented, with a drive for perfection down to the last frame • Are passionate about Stripe's mission, are dedicated to a user-first mindset, and have experience working with data and insights