Senior Designer (Motion)

Strava; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dev stipend

On-site gym

Free lunch on Wednesdays

401(k) match

Gear stipend

Gym coaching reimbursement

Stock options

Team workouts

Team offsites

Volunteer PTO

Bike storage

Snacks and kitchens

Job summary

Strava is seeking a Senior Motion Designer to join our Creative team. You will craft a cohesive motion language across brand campaigns, social content, and digital touchpoints, partnering with creative directors, designers, and copywriters to bring ideas to life.

You will help evolve motion systems, explore AI-assisted workflows, and manage projects end-to-end with minimal direction, delivering high-quality work across marketing and product experiences.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• A collaborative, solutions-first approach: you work through obstacles proactively and bring options, not just problems.
• Experience with UI/UX motion is a plus; Working knowledge of 3D tools is a plus (Cinema 4D or Spline).

Responsibilities

• Develop and standardize motion design language and a cohesive visual approach for Strava and Runna campaigns.
• Collaborate with creative directors, designers, and copywriters to bring ideas to life.
• Contribute to and evolve motion systems and templates for marketing and product experiences.
• Manage projects end-to-end, anticipating production needs and prioritizing by business impact.
• Generate multiple strong creative directions from briefs and defend the strongest option.
• Partner with teams to maintain quality and consistency without constant reference to guidelines.

Skills

Motion Design

Brand Judgment

After Effects

Figma

Adobe CC

Cinema 4D

Spline

Rive

Collaboration

UI/UX Motion

Tools

Cinema 4D

Spline

Rive

After Effects

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

• 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

• 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
• Stock options

• A track record of managing your own projects end to end, including anticipating production needs and prioritizing under pressure
• 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
• 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
• A collaborative, solutions-first approach: you work through obstacles proactively and bring options, not just problems
• Experience with UI/UX motion is a plus
• Working knowledge of 3D tools like Cinema 4D or Spline is a plus
• Strong brand judgment, comfortable making creative calls independently and helping partners understand the reasoning behind them
• Strong proficiency with After Effects, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite