2D Illustrator/Animator, Brand Advertising

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Brand Studio team lays the design foundations that help Stripe accelerate. We do this by creating evolving and maintaining Stripes high-quality versatile and forward-looking visual identity design system. We sweat the details. We make it seem effortless.

Our teamand our design effortsare multipliers for Stripe and Stripes. Our focus on principles systems and standards makes it easier for all Stripes to get work doneat a high quality bar while still creating space for evolution and innovation. Collaborating with other teams at Stripe as well as select external partners we raise the quality and consistency of interactions with the Stripe brand.

What youll do

2d illustrator/animators at Stripe demonstrate passion for great design and for expanding evolving defining and documenting flexible illustration systems that achieve bar-raising quality and consistency for the brand at scale. The ideal candidate excels at delivering on brand 2d illustration from conception to motion. They have a deep understanding of visual storytelling iterates quickly and collaborates seamlessly with marketers product managers leaders other designers and agency partners.

Responsibilities

• Work across the Link and Stripe brands to develop establish and create illustration and motion styles in close partnership with Brand Design Product Design Marketing and Communications.
• Create 2d 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 and Link 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 2d illustration/motion and how it is used to express our brandfrom 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.

Who you are

Were looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• Have 6 years of relevant design and art direction experience for technical and product-driven companies.
• Bachelors or Masters 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 2d illustration systems.
• Have the ability to express and communicate a brand through distinct graphics patterns motion interaction and video (short form and long form).
• 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.
• Have a working knowledge of editing and how motion is integrated into live-action and some familiarity with editing software.

Preferred qualifications

• 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 growand have them help you learn and grow.