Senior Motion Designer — 3D Illustration & Brand Systems

Stripe, Inc.; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe Brand Studio is seeking a senior 3d illustrator/animator to lead the development of illustration and motion systems that elevate the Stripe brand at scale. You will craft photo-realistic 3d compositions from concept through modeling to motion, telling editorial stories across billboard to video formats.

You’ll collaborate with brand, product design, marketing, and cross-functional partners to ensure high-quality, consistent visuals and to push brand boundaries with AI-assisted tooling and

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Skills

6+ years of design and art direction

Strategic brand building

Systems thinking

Art direction excellence

AI tools usage

Brand expression through visuals

Communication with team/partners

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in art

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Stripe Brand Studio is seeking a senior 3d illustrator/animator to lead the development of illustration and motion systems that elevate the Stripe brand at scale. You will craft photo-realistic 3d compositions from concept through modeling to motion, telling editorial stories across billboard to video formats.

You’ll collaborate with brand, product design, marketing, and cross-functional partners to ensure high-quality, consistent visuals and to push brand boundaries with AI-assisted tooling and