Brand Designer, Sports Marketing

COROS; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

MacBook Pro

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma licenses

Home-office allowance

25 days paid vacation

Job summary

COROS is seeking a Brand Designer, Sports Marketing to join our Global Brand Marketing team. You will translate athlete performances and stories into premium creative for athlete-owned channels, COROS regional channels, and media partnerships.

Based in Europe or the UK, this fully remote role emphasizes collaborating with Sports Marketing Managers, building scalable visual systems, and staying connected to endurance sports.

Qualifications

• Experience with brand design and storytelling for social, digital, editorial and campaigns.
• Strong portfolio showing sophisticated brand design and visual storytelling.
• Typography, layout, image selection, composition and visual hierarchy skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary creative and design partner for the COROS Sports Marketing team.
• Develop creative around athlete performances, races, training stories, partnerships and moments in endurance sport.
• Create premium content for athlete-owned social channels and COROS regional channels.
• Build scalable visual systems and templates for quick reaction to athlete results and time-sensitive moments.
• Develop brand guidelines and creative toolkits for media partners.
• Translate athlete data, product insights and race performances into clear visual storytelling.
• Plan creatives around major races with Sports Marketing Managers and briefs.
• Collaborate with the broader Brand Marketing team to stay connected to COROS identity.

Skills

3+ years experience

Portfolio

Typography

Motion design

English fluency

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Keynote

Job description

About the Role

Athletes and endurance sports are at the heart of the COROS brand. We work with some of the world's best athletes and rising talent across running, cycling, climbing, fishing, and mountain sports, and we believe there is an enormous opportunity to tell their stories in ways that build credibility, awareness, and deeper connections with the sports communities we serve.

The Brand Designer, Sports Marketing will be the dedicated creative partner to our Sports Marketing team, responsible for developing compelling, premium creative around our athletes, partnerships, competitions, and key moments in sport.

This person will translate athlete performances, stories, training insights, and cultural moments into creative that can live across athlete-owned channels, COROS regional channels, media partnerships, social, digital, and other consumer touchpoints.

The right candidate will combine their design experience and abiltiy with a genuine understanding of endurance sports. They should know the general landscape, understand the athletes, events, brands, media, and visual culture shaping it, and be excited by the challenge of turning a race result or athlete story into something people genuinely want to engage with.

Sitting within the Global Brand Marketing team and working closely with Sports Marketing, this role will help define how COROS visually shows up in the moments that matter most across endurance sport.

Your playground

• Act as the primary creative and design partner for the COROS Sports Marketing team.
• Develop creative around athlete performances, races, training stories, partnerships, records, product use cases and key moments in endurance sport.
• Create premium content for athlete-owned social channels that complements each athlete's visual identity without over-branding it.
• Develop content for COROS regional channels, including collaborative posts with athletes and regional partners.
• Build scalable visual systems and templates that let COROS react quickly to athlete results and time-sensitive moments.
• Develop brand guidelines and creative toolkits for selected sports media and publishing partners.
• Translate athlete data, product insights, race performances and training information into clear visual storytelling.
• Plan creatives around major races and competitions in close collaboration with the Sports Marketing Managers, based on athlete calendars, priorities and briefs.
• Partner with Sports Marketing Managers on art direction and shot lists for athlete shoots.
• Collaborate with the broader Brand Marketing team so sports marketing creative stays connected to the overall COROS visual identity.
• Stay deeply connected to endurance sports including athletes, events, media, brands and the culture shaping running, trail running, cycling and mountain sports.

What you bring to the starting line

Professional Background

• Experience: 3+ years of work experience in brand design, graphic design or a closely related creative role, in-house or agency.
• Portfolio: A strong portfolio showing sophisticated brand design and visual storytelling across social, digital, editorial and campaign work.
• Craft: Strong typography, layout, image selection, composition and visual hierarchy skills, with a high standard for detail.
• Tools: Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma; experience with Keynote and motion design is a plus.
• Sport Passion: Sports enthusiasm and genuine excitement to help us elevate sports performance for everyday and elite athletes through technology

Other Key Requirements

• Concept & Execution: Strong conceptual thinking, with the ability to execute independently, quickly and accurately, including reactive projects with short turnarounds.
• Brand Sense: Understanding of how creative can elevate a brand while still feeling authentic to an athlete, sport or community.
• Collaboration & Organization: Clear communicator and strong collaborator with excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Mindset: Thrives in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.
• Language: Fluency in English (spoken and written).
• Flexibility: Willingness to occasionally shift working hours or work weekends around major races and competitions, with time off in lieu.

The Setup

• Reporting Line: Brand Design Leader, with a dotted-line reporting structure to the Head of Sports Marketing.
• Location: Remote, anywhere in the EU or the UK. Wherever you're based, we'll set you up with a local employment contract.
• Working Mode: Fully remote, with the option to work from a COROS office depending on your location.
• Job Type: Full-time, 40 hours / week (or local full-time equivalent).
• Travel: Occasional travel for team get-togethers.

Package & Benefits

• Work in a motivated, international team.
• Space for ideas and independent work.
• Flat hierarchy with short decision-making processes.
• Opportunity to join a company in a very dynamic period, with diverse opportunities for personal growth.
• 25 days of paid vacation plus standard local holidays.
• Equipment: A MacBook Pro, Adobe Creative Suite and Figma licenses, plus a home-office allowance for remotees.
• Compensation: The base salary range for this position starts at €50.000,- annually with the possibility to earn a performance-based bonus on top. This is the least we can do for you. The final offer depends on your experience, background, and location.