The Ride Platform - Marketing Designer

Austin, TX (On-site)

$85K/yr – $105K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own dual marketplace visual strategy and multi-channel design execution with AI-first scale, delivering distinct brand worlds for Outdoorsy and Ride while tying visuals to product and lifecycle goals.

  • Cross-brand design system & DAM: scale reusable components and assets to lift conversion metrics.
  • AI-driven pipeline: automate variations, localization, and rapid testing using Claude Design and Figma plugins.
  • Marketing alignment: ensure visuals seamlessly extend in-app product experiences and multi-channel campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Dual-Marketplace Visual Strategy (Outdoorsy & Ride)
  • Deconstruct, elevate, and scale the visual expressions for Outdoorsy.com and Ride.auto.
  • Ensure both marketplaces maintain entirely distinct, credible brand voices and visual worlds that appeal to their specific demographics (e.g., outdoor/RV travelers vs. urban auto renters and owners).
  • Design highly targeted, tailored creative assets tailored to the unique psychological drivers of two distinct customer sets: Guests (travelers/renters) and Hosts (vehicle owners/fleet operators).
  • Product Marketing: Partner with Product Design to translate complex product features, UI updates, and marketplace capabilities into digestible, high-converting launch assets, landing pages, and explanatory visual materials.
  • Lifecycle Marketing: Craft cohesive, personalized visual experiences across email, push notifications, and in-app messages to maximize guest retention and host re-engagement.
  • Organic Social & Content Creation: Act as a platform-native creator. Design short-form motion graphics, video overlays, social templates, and interactive assets optimized for channels like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
  • Embed deeply with the Integrated Marketing team to execute holistic campaign strategies from ideation to final delivery.
  • Establish a seamless bridge to Product Design, ensuring marketing communications feel extensionally aligned with the in-app product experience.
  • Champion the development, expansion, and scaling of multi-brand Marketing Design Systems, creating reusable template logic, components, and asset libraries in Figma to empower cross-functional teams.
  • Directly manage, organize, and optimize our Digital Asset Management (DAM) tools to maintain a "single source of truth" for all marketing visual assets.
  • Pioneer, build, and continuously optimize a highly automated, AI-augmented design pipeline utilizing tools like Claude Design, Figma plugins, and generative asset tooling.
  • Leverage AI to exponentially scale asset variations, run rapid localization/personalization experiments, and eliminate the friction of repetitive layout work, freeing up bandwidth for deep creative exploration.
  • Velocity & Throughput: Successful deployment of an operational AI design pipeline within the first 90 days, significantly reducing the turnaround time for multi-variant marketing collateral.
  • Systemization: Creation and documentation of a unified, component-driven marketing design system in Figma within 6 months, seamlessly bridging Outdoorsy and Ride brand aesthetics.
  • Growth Metric Contribution: Demonstrable improvement in multi-channel performance metrics (e.g., ad click-through rates, email conversion spikes, social engagement lifts) directly linked to optimized, high-quality creative assets.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of dedicated communication design, marketing design, or creative execution experience, with a heavy emphasis on high-growth B2C consumer tech brands.
  • High Agency: You are fundamentally self-directed and thrive in fast-moving, dynamic environments. You don't wait for a rigid playbook—you write it.
  • Hybrid Skillset: You possess strong foundational graphic design chops combined with robust motion design and digital content creation skills. You care deeply about typography and composition but understand how to make an asset move to capture attention.
  • Tool Fluency: Masterful command of Figma and standard digital asset management ecosystems. Deeply fluent in, or actively experimenting with, AI-assisted design platforms (e.g., Claude Design).
  • Growth Mindset: You treat design as a tool for business growth. You are obsessed with creative performance data, eager to look at conversion metrics, and design specifically to drive measurable optimization across all channels.
  • Presence: This position is a full-time role requiring physical presence in our Austin, TX office. We believe the physical proximity of our creative, product, and marketing leaders accelerates breakthrough ideas.

Preferred

  • Bonus points for direct experience in the travel, marketplaces, or mobility sectors.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Benefits: 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees, 401(k) match, and Flexible PTO.
  • Vibrant Culture: Catered lunches, happy hours, and team-building events.
  • Work-Life Balance: We offer marketplace discounts and maintain a culture that values the balance between work and adventure.
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The Ride Platform

The Ride Platform is building the infrastructure for the mobility economy. Our four lines of business provide the full stack — marketplaces, fleet management SaaS, and specialized insurance — that turns vehicles into profitable businesses. ***Outdoorsy is the world’s most trusted, high quality RV travel and accommodations marketplace that includes our owned and operated destinations.Ride is the professional car rental marketplace built for high-volume fleet operators ready to capitalize on the future of autonomous travel.Roamly is the leading AI-first specialty insurance provider purpose-built for modern mobility marketplaces, from carsharing to connected fleets.Wheelbase is the SaaS operating system for auto and RV fleets that gives operators control over pricing, utilization, and embedded insurance.***We exist to unlock what's possible for entrepreneurs in the mobility economy.

Founded in 2015
Austin, Texas, USA
288 employees (31 in marketing)

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Current headcount: ~288

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