Brand Designer, Communications

About This Role

Strava is the leading digital community for active people with more than 120 million athletes, in more than 190 countries. The platform offers a holistic view of your active lifestyle, no matter where you live, which sport you love and/or what device you use. Everyone belongs on Strava when they are pursuing an active life.

We are seeking a well-adapted, multi-disciplinary Brand Designer for a full-time position. The ideal candidate has strong visual design skills, is highly collaborative, and is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, while maintaining meticulous attention to detail. A curious mind ready to push boundaries coupled with a proactive drive will go a long way at Strava.

This is a pivotal role on the Brand Design team. You will spend a majority of your time designing consistent visual elements that reflect Strava’s brand and are used across all internal/external communication platforms. A highly organized individual with structured files is essential to the workflow.

One focus area for this role will be to partner with our brand designers and various business units and craft important documents using our brand templates and documentation of our design standards. This role is suited for someone who has a passion for design craft and understands the importance of creating consistency and ensuring accessibility. This is how you will elevate the Strava athlete experience and enable people to reach their goals and achieve their personal best.

This is a role based in San Francisco as a hybrid/in-office position. Salary Range: $90,000-110,000

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will:

• Work collaboratively with internal team members to develop crucial Brand documents that service the organization.
• Spend a lot of your time designing Decks and Word Templates, using creative direction from the Global Brand team.
• Design consistent visual elements that reflect Strava’s brand and are used across all internal communication platforms.
• Design visually appealing and engaging content for internal announcements, updates, and presentations to ensure high levels of employee engagement and information retention.
• Design materials for HR for recruitment, onboarding, training programs, and internal events, including creating visual aids for employee development workshops, company-wide meetings, or annual gatherings.
• Regularly collect and analyze employee feedback on the effectiveness of the communication designs and strategies, using surveys or feedback tools embedded in the internal platforms.
• Maintain Strava’s design system and standards across product and marketing to ensure visual brand excellence.

You will be successful here by:

• Having experience in presentation design, decks, and/or portfolios.
• Being flexible, dependable, and highly organized, with exceptional communication and decision-making skills.
• Being passionate about Strava's mission and purpose, with empathy for both the customer and individuals on the creative team.
• Having a love for design.

We’re excited about you because:

• You have 3+ years of brand/visual/product/communications design experience.
• You love developing standards and design systems that create huge impact through simple solutions.
• You have exceptional attention to detail.
• Craft, typography, composition, imagery, iconography, and color are your language.
• You have enthusiasm for taking on new opportunities.
• You can be self-directed and project manage your own workflow.
• You have experience working quickly and efficiently.
• You have experience using Figma, Photoshop, Google Slides, and Keynote.
• You are proficient with Photoshop and Illustrator - animation tools are a bonus.

About Strava

Strava is Swedish for “strive,” which epitomizes who we are and what we do. We’re a passionate and committed team, unified by our mission to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. With billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and adventurous vision: to be the record of the world’s athletic activities and the technology that makes every effort count.

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 diverse teammates from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.

Despite challenges in the world around us, we are continuing to grow camaraderie and positivity within our culture, and we are unified in our commitment to becoming an antiracist company. We are differentiated by our truly people-first approach, our compassionate leadership, and our belief that we can bring joy and inspiration to athletes’ lives — now more than ever. All to say, it’s a great time to join Strava!

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.