Motion Designer 3D, Stripe Identity

Stripe, Inc.; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 75.000 - 112.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity

Performance bonuses

Health benefits

Wellness stipends

Descripción de la vacante

Stripe in Barcelona is seeking a senior 3D illustrator/animator to lead brand illustration systems, from concept through motion, in close partnership with Brand, Product Design and Marketing. You will create visual narratives that scale across surfaces and environments, shaping Stripe’s identity globally.

The role requires 6+ years of design/art direction, a degree in art or equivalent, and a track record of integrating AI tools to produce exceptional visuals.

Formación

• 6+ years of design and art direction experience for technical and product-driven companies.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in art, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong strategic acumen for building leading brands in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Systems-thinking and ability to extrapolate patterns and behaviors.
• Proven excellence in art direction and building 3D illustration systems.
• Experience using and building AI tools to create exceptional work.
• Ability to express a brand through graphics, patterns, motion, and video.
• Excellent communication with team and external partners.
• Track record of delivering work independently and collaborating with others.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and establish illustration and motion styles in partnership with brand, product design, and marketing.
• Create photo-realistic 3D compositions for static and motion content across various surfaces.
• Define guidelines and processes to ensure quality and consistency at scale.
• Collaborate with non-motion designers to elevate each others’ work.
• Oversee quality and consistency of 3D illustration/motion across products, campaigns, and events.
• Coordinate with external teams in creative strategy and production.
• Work with cross-functional partners to serve a global audience.
• Foster a culture of excellence and continuously evolve best practices and processes.
• Stay curious and explore AI-driven tool building for beautiful design.

Conocimientos

Design leadership

Brand strategy

AI tools usage

3D illustration systems

Communication

Educación

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in art or equivalent

Herramientas

AI tooling platforms

3D software (Blender/Cinema 4D)

Descripción del empleo

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

3d 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 3d illustration from conception, to 3d modeling, and all the way to motion. They have a deep understanding of visual storytelling, iterate quickly, and collaborate seamlessly with marketers, product managers, leaders, other designers, and agency partners.

Responsibilities

• 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

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 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.

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 grow—and have them help you learn and grow.

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €74,800 - €112,200. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

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Company Information

• Company: Stripe
• Team: Design
• Office location: Barcelona
• Employment type: Full time