Senior Designer

Who you are

• 5–7+ years of experience as a Motion Designer with a portfolio showing you can execute independently across a range of formats and complexity, ideally including brand or campaign work
• Strong proficiency with After Effects, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience with Rive is not required, though we'd love someone excited to learn it, as it is our tool used for motion and interactivity in product
• Working knowledge of 3D tools like Cinema 4D or Spline is a plus
• Experience with UI/UX motion is a plus
• Strong brand judgment, comfortable making creative calls independently and helping partners understand the reasoning behind them
• A track record of managing your own projects end to end, including anticipating production needs and prioritizing under pressure
• A collaborative, solutions-first approach: you work through obstacles proactively and bring options, not just problems

What the job involves

• We're seeking a Senior Motion Designer to join our Creative team who brings confidence and consistency to how brands move across Strava and Runna
• You'll execute creative expressions across brand campaigns, social content, and digital touchpoints, developing a motion language that feels cohesive from project to project and holds up with minimal direction
• Day to day, you'll be partnering closely with creative directors, designers, and copywriters to bring ideas to life
• You'll also apply strong brand judgment and design craft across your work and help junior teammates grow their skill sets
• We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our San Francisco or New York City office, three days per week
• Concept and develop our motion design language and a visual approach that feels cohesive and distinct to our brand ethos
• Contribute to and help evolve our motion systems and templates that flex across marketing and product experiences, executing independently with minimal direction
• Explore how AI tools can help scale consistent, high-quality motion execution as demand grows
• Generate multiple strong creative directions from a brief and make the case for the strongest one
• Apply strong brand judgment across touchpoints, flagging inconsistencies and helping partners maintain quality without needing to reference guidelines at every step
• Manage your own projects end-to-end, anticipating production needs and prioritizing based on business impact rather than whatever's loudest
• Partner with creative directors, designers, copywriters, and product teams, representing creative thinking clearly to non-creative collaborators across the company

Benefits

• Stock options
• 100% company paid benefits for employees and families
• Flexible paid time off
• $2,000 annual professional development stipend
• Paid time off for volunteering
• 401(k) plan - with company matching
• $1000 annual gear stipend
• $500 annual gym or coaching reimbursement
• On-site fitness rooms with showers, lockers, and towel service
• Weekly team workouts – including remote employees
• Safe and secure bike storage on-site
• Weekly all hands meetings
• Employee resource groups
• Anti-racism nonprofit company matching program
• Free lunch on Wednesdays on-site
• Regular team happy hours
• Team offsites and company retreats
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Generous industry discounts on gear and activities
• Race entries to events we sponsor
• Snacks and stocked kitchens on-site
• Strava gear