Motion Designer, Stripe Identity

Details

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Stripe Brand Studio is a multidisciplinary team responsible for the creative vision, strategy, and execution of brand experiences across digital and physical mediums.

The Stripe brand identity team defines and evolves Stripe's visual identity across user-facing surfaces. This role will define and elevate Stripe's motion language across new and existing surfaces, creating flexible motion systems that achieve high quality and consistency at scale. The ideal candidate is technically fluent, communicates motion decisions clearly, and collaborates effectively with 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.
• Develop guidelines, systems, and processes to ensure quality and consistency at scale.
• Contribute to and maintain Stripe's motion design system, including principles, timing tokens, animation guidelines, and reusable motion components.
• Collaborate with non-motion designers to elevate and inform each other's work.
• Coordinate with external motion and production studios or contractors on creative strategy, execution, and delivery.
• Share motion knowledge and best practices with teammates.
• Experiment, tinker, and iterate to create high-quality motion work.
• Shape a strategic vision that pushes brand boundaries and builds internal awareness of design's impact at Stripe.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant motion design experience for technical, brand-driven, or product-led organizations.
• Expert command of After Effects, Cinema 4D or Houdini, AI tools, and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite.
• A 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, including timing, easing, staging, anticipation, and how motion communicates meaning and brand character.
• Systems-thinking skills and the ability to extrapolate and extend shared patterns and behaviors.
• Working knowledge of emerging motion and AI tools and how they fit into professional production workflows.
• A strong track record of delivering high-quality motion work independently and in collaboration with cross-functional partners.
• Ability to balance speed, quality, and challenging, frame-perfect work.
• Ability to explain work, processes, and decisions persuasively and humbly, and to use feedback to improve designs.
• Interest in helping other designers learn and grow while continuing to develop personally.
• Excellent organization, presentation, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and a drive for precision.
• Passion for Stripe's mission, a user-first mindset, and experience working with data and insights.