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Strava is seeking a Senior Motion Designer to join its Creative team. You'll develop and execute motion design language across brand campaigns, social content, and digital touchpoints for Strava and Runna, ensuring cohesive visual storytelling across all brand expressions.
In this role, you'll partner closely with creative directors, designers, and copywriters to bring strategic ideas to life. You'll own projects end-to-end, from concept through execution, while mentoring junior team members and helping elevate the overall quality of motion work across the organization.
Key responsibilities include:
- Concepting and developing a distinctive motion design language aligned with brand ethos
- Contributing to and evolving motion systems and templates that work across marketing and product experiences
- Exploring how AI tools can help scale consistent, high-quality motion execution
- Generating multiple creative directions from briefs and advocating for the strongest approach
- Applying strong brand judgment to flag inconsistencies and maintain quality standards
- Managing projects independently with minimal direction, anticipating production needs and prioritizing by business impact
- Representing creative thinking clearly to non-creative collaborators across the company
Strava is a global community platform for active people, with over 200 million athletes in 185+ countries. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners, and Jackson Square Ventures.
Work arrangement: Flexible hybrid model requiring more than half your time on-site (three days per week) at either the San Francisco or New York City office.
Requirements:
- 5–7+ years of experience as a Motion Designer with a portfolio demonstrating independent execution across multiple formats and complexity levels, ideally including brand or campaign work
- Strong proficiency with After Effects, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite
- Working knowledge of 3D tools like Cinema 4D or Spline (a plus)
- Experience with UI/UX motion (a plus)
- Experience with Rive not required but valued
- Strong brand judgment and ability to make creative decisions independently
- Track record of managing projects end-to-end, including production planning and prioritization under pressure
- Collaborative, solutions-first mindset with proactive problem-solving approach
