Motion Designer, Experiential

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
Brand Studio lays the foundations that help Stripe accelerate. We do this by creating, evolving, and maintaining Stripe's high-quality, versatile, and forward-looking brand design systems, experiences, and advertising campaigns. We sweat the details. We make it seem effortless. Motion is at the core of how we bring the brand to life—from live event stages to digital campaigns, motion design is our most expressive storytelling medium.

What you’ll do
Motion Designers at Stripe demonstrate a passion for the craft of movement and a deep understanding of how motion communicates brand character. You will be responsible for defining and advancing Stripe's motion language across event experiences, digital surfaces, and mainstage scenic and creative content. You work at the intersection of design systems and cinematic storytelling, creating motion frameworks that scale while still feeling intentional and human. The ideal candidate is technically fluent, conceptually strong, crisply articulates motion decisions, and collaborates seamlessly with creative directors, producers, marketers, and engineering partners.

Responsibilities

Execute motion design direction across Stripe's internal and external event experiences—from concept through final delivery

Contribute to and maintain Stripe's motion design system: principles, timing tokens, animation guidelines, and reusable motion components

Create high-quality motion graphics, title sequences, animated brand assets, and creative content for live events, broadcast, and digital channels

Support and collaborate with the Experiential Creative Director, designers, event producers, and cross-functional partners to serve a global audience

Coordinate with external motion and production studios or contractors in creative strategy, execution, and delivery

Share motion knowledge and best practices with teammates

Steward teams through large-scale motion projects and productions

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. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Requirements

Have 5+ years of relevant motion design experience for technical, brand-driven, or product-led organizations

Expert command of motion design tools: After Effects, Cinema 4D (or Houdini), AI tools, and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite

Strong portfolio demonstrating high-craft motion work—including brand identity systems, event titles, animated campaigns, and/or data-driven motion

Familiarity with motion design systems and how to apply them consistently across contexts

Deep understanding of animation principles: timing, easing, staging, anticipation, and how motion communicates meaning and brand character

Exposure to designing for live event environments: LED walls, stage visuals, real-time rendering, and large-format displays

Familiarity with real-time tools (e.g., Notch, TouchDesigner, Disguise) is a strong plus

Proficiency with design collaboration tools (Figma, Keynote) and a systems-thinking approach to extending motion across shared patterns and behaviors

Working knowledge of emerging motion and AI tools and how they fit into a professional production workflow

Strong track record delivering high quality motion work independently, and in close collaboration with cross-functional partners

Find a meaningful balance between optimizing for speed, quality, and doing challenging, interesting, frame-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

Have excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication

Highly detail-oriented, with a drive for perfection down to the last frame

Are passionate about Stripe's mission, are dedicated to a user-first mindset, and have experience working with data and insights

Office‑assigned Stripe team members 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, Stripe team members 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.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $175,200 – $262,800. 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 location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

Office locations
South San Francisco HQ, New York, or Seattle

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