Senior Designer, Motion

Strava; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Strava is 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.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of experience as a Motion Designer with independent project work.
• Strong proficiency with After Effects, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience with 3D tools like Cinema 4D or Spline is a plus.
• Rive experience is not required; willingness to learn is valued.
• UI/UX motion experience is a plus.
• Strong brand judgment with ability to defend creative decisions.
• Proven ability to manage projects end to end under tight timelines.

Responsibilities

• Concept and develop motion design language cohesive to the Strava brand.
• Evolve motion systems and templates across marketing and product.
• Explore AI tools to scale high-quality motion execution.
• Generate multiple directions from briefs and select strongest.
• Collaborate with directors, designers, copywriters, and product teams.
• Manage projects end-to-end, anticipating production needs.
• Advise partners and maintain quality without constant guideline checks.

Skills

Motion design

Brand judgment

Collaboration

Independent work

UI/UX motion

Creative direction

Tools

After Effects

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Cinema 4D

Spline

Rive

Job description

About Strava

Strava is the app for active people. With over 200 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where people make progress together, from new habits to new personal bests. No matter your sport or how you track it, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your goals, and make every effort count. Start your journey with Strava today.

Our mission is simple: to motivate people to live their best active lives. We believe in the power of movement to connect and drive people forward.

About This Role

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.

What You'll Do

• 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

What You'll Bring to the Team

• 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

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Why Join Us?

Movement brings us together. At Strava, we’re building the world’s largest community of active people, helping them stay motivated and achieve their goals.

Our global team is passionate about making movement fun, meaningful, and accessible to everyone. Whether you’re shaping the technology, growing our community, or driving innovation, your work at Strava makes an impact.

When you join Strava, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a movement. If you’re ready to bring your energy, ideas, and drive, let’s build something incredible together.

Strava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. Just as we’re deeply committed to unlocking their potential, we’re dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and we’re expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community. We are continuously striving to hire and engage teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.

Strava is an equal opportunity employer. In keeping with the values of Strava, we make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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