Motion Designer, Stripe Identity
Creates and scales Stripe’s motion language across brand, campaign, and product surfaces while developing reusable systems and guidelines. The role requires 5+ years of motion design experience, expert creative-tool proficiency, and a strong portfolio of high-craft work.
About the job
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, elevating and informing 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.
- Stay curious and experimental, tinkering and iterating to create high-quality 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 motion design tools, including After Effects, Cinema 4D or Houdini, AI tools, and Adobe Creative Cloud.
- 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, and anticipation.
- Systems-thinking ability, with strength in extrapolating and extending shared patterns and behaviors.
- Working knowledge of emerging motion and AI tools and their role in professional production workflows.
- Track record of delivering high-quality motion work independently and with cross-functional partners.
- Ability to balance speed, quality, and challenging, frame-perfect work.
- Persuasive, humble communication of work, process, and decisions, with openness to feedback.
- Collaborative approach to learning and helping other designers grow.
- 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.
Skills
After Effects, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Adobe Creative Cloud, Motion Design, Animation Principles, AI Tools, Motion Design Systems, Brand Identity, In-Product Animation, Data-Driven Motion
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