2D Illustrator/Animator, Brand Advertising

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.

About the team

The Brand Studio team lays the design foundations that help Stripe accelerate. We do this by creating, evolving, and maintaining Stripe’s high-quality, versatile, and forward-looking visual identity design system. Our focus on principles, systems, and standards makes it easier for all Stripes to get work done—at 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 you’ll do

• 2D illustrators/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 express themselves 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 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.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.

Minimum requirements

• Have 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 behaviours.
• 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 grow—and have them help you learn and grow.