Global Creative Solutions Lead

About This Role

Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 185 countries, Strava is where connection, motivation, and personal bests thrive. No matter your activity, gear, or goals, we help you find your crew, crush your milestones, and keep moving forward. 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.

Strava for Business partners with brands looking to authentically engage our highly engaged global community. Through sponsored challenges and segments which are platform-native experiences, we offer an alternative to traditional advertising channels—giving brands new ways to inspire, motivate, and connect with athletes around the world.

As the first Creative Strategy hire, you will build the function from ground up, elevating the creative vision, storytelling, and strategic rigor behind not only Strava for Business’s highest-value partnerships but across the go-to-market function. You’ll bridge sales strategy, creative ideation, and execution, developing ideas that authentically connect brands to Strava’s product ecosystem, data, and community. In this cross-functional and entrepreneurial role, you’ll support marquee opportunities while also enabling our global commercial team to pitch and deliver creative excellence at scale.

We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our London office — three days per week.

Please note there is a slight delay in our hiring processes due to the upcoming holidays. We will begin reviewing resumes and interviews will begin in January 2026.

What You’ll Do

• Lead creative strategy for Strava-first campaigns globally, from brief to pitch to execution. Translate client objectives into clear strategic frameworks, narratives, and creative directions rooted in Strava culture and community insight.

• Work with design, web production, and technical partners to create custom challenge experiences and microsites using Strava’s API—ensuring concepts balance creative ambition with technical feasibility.

• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Operations to strengthen and articulate Strava’s creative value proposition across global markets.

• Build scalable creative enablement and playbooks, including pitch frameworks, best-in-class examples, and recap storytelling that empower Sales and Account Management teams to operate with confidence and consistency.

• Partner with Operations and Sales ensuring ideas are strategically sound, sellable, and executable.

• Champion creativity across Strava for Business, embedding creative thinking into commercial strategy, client engagements, and internal ways of working.

• Partner with Brand and Marketing to define Strava’s creative point of view and set the bar for what “great” looks like for partner work on the platform.

• Lay the foundations for a scalable, future-ready creative function, building processes, standards, and cultural momentum that will evolve as Strava for Business grows.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• 7+ years of experience in creative strategy, advertising, digital media or social, ideally within fast-growing or emerging tech platforms.

• Deep experience operating in a high-growth platform environment where creative strategy is built in real time—comfortable shaping process, defining standards, and driving cross-functional alignment.

• A proven ability to develop ideas and building narratives grounded in insight, audience behavior, and platform mechanics, with a track record of work that connects brand objectives to platform-native creativity.

• Strong visual communication and deck-building skills, with proficiency in Figma, Google Slides, or similar presentation design tools.

• Hands-on experience across the full campaign lifecycle (strategy, pitch, production, post-campaign storytelling), in a fast-scaling platform environment.

• An entrepreneurial mindset with the independence, agility, and problem-solving skills needed to build creative processes and frameworks from scratch.

• Confidence working cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Marketing, Design, and technical teams, bringing clarity and collaboration to ambiguous or net-new projects.

• Excellent storytelling and communication skills, capable of translating complex ideas into simple, inspiring narratives for internal and external audiences.

• A genuine passion for sport, creativity, and the power of movement to bring people and brands together.

This position reports into Strava for Business Marketing, ensuring tight alignment with commercial storytelling, narrative development, and sales collateral. The role will also maintain a dotted line into Sales leadership to ensure prioritization is aligned with revenue opportunities and strategic focus areas.

You will collaborate closely with teams across Marketing, Design, Product, Engineering, Creators, and Operations to deliver impactful, high-touch creative work.

Compensation Overview:

At Strava, we know our employees are the most important ingredient to our success, and our compensation and total rewards programs reflect that. We take a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the department and your location. Salary ranges are categorized into one of three zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. We will determine the candidate’s starting pay based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. We may modify these ranges in the future. For more information, please contact your talent partner.

Compensation : £92,000 - £98,000. This role is also eligible for variable compensation tied to sales team performance. This range reflects base compensation only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more details about the full compensation package during the hiring process.

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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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