Full-Time

Senior Designer

Consumer Apps

Outside Interactive

Outside Interactive

501-1,000 employees

Active lifestyle media network with subscriptions

Compensation Overview

$75k - $95k/yr

+ Bonus + Commission

Colorado, USA

Remote

Category
UI/UX & Design (1)
Required Skills
Claude
Adobe Creative Suite
Figma
Requirements
  • Four to six years of experience in design, preferably digital products or an agency background.
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating craft, systems thinking, and performance-driven work.
  • Experience working within brand guidelines and applying design systems.
  • Ability to design for modern digital channels (social, paid media, lifecycle, and in-product) and an appetite to explore design solutions for new channels such as experiential.
  • Experience with artificial intelligence tooling to accelerate design and prototyping (Figma Make, ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, or similar) as part of the design workflow to assist in ideation, exploration, or other rapid production.
  • Build functional, interactive prototypes using AI-assisted code generation (when needed) to validate concepts with real interactions, not just static mocks, bringing testable experiences in hours rather than weeks.
  • Proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and an appetite to learn new ones.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
  • Create high-quality design solutions across product and marketing surfaces, including email, social, in-app experiences, landing pages, and more.
  • Thrives on collaboration and has a design process that allows for speed and agility.
  • Contributes to brand systems and visual language through exploration, and builds consistency through all touchpoints.
  • Applies insights from data, testing, and user behavior to iterate and improve creative performance.
  • Clearly communicate design decisions to stakeholders.
  • Stay current with trends and tooling, specifically AI, to improve efficiency and quality of work produce and bring useful discoveries back to the broader team.
Desired Qualifications
  • Passion for outdoor recreation, fitness, or wellness — and a desire to inspire others to explore more.
  • Photography experience or passion that inspires day-to-day executions.
  • Familiarity working with other motion designers, videographers and photographers, or illustrators is a plus.

Outside focuses on active-lifestyle media for outdoor enthusiasts, curating content from 20+ brands across health, fitness, gear, travel, and more. Its flagship Outside+ subscription grants unlimited access to network content and Outside Watch on-demand features. It earns revenue from memberships and partner sponsorships/advertising with industry organizations. The company differentiates itself by cultivating engaged outdoor communities and guiding people along their journeys with reliable information and accessible experiences, aiming to inspire more outdoor activity.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$164M

Headquarters

Boulder, Colorado

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • MapMyFitness adds 80M users, scaling first-party data and ad network exponentially.
  • Outside+ exceeds 1M subscribers post-acquisitions, driving recurring revenue growth.
  • Outside Festival with Capital One, REI expands live events, boosting engagement in 2025.

What critics are saying

  • Strava's superior social features erode MapMyFitness retention within 6-12 months.
  • AllTrails dominates trail mapping, capping Outside's subscription growth in 12-18 months.
  • REI Co-op's apps undercut Outside Festival and memberships using 25M members in 18-24 months.

What makes Outside Interactive unique

  • Outside Interactive shifted from 70% ads to 60% subscriptions, posting first $125M profit in 2024.
  • Acquired MapMyFitness, Trailforks, Gaia GPS, creating world's largest outdoor mapping network.
  • Inntopia acquisition integrates booking tech with 100M users for seamless adventure travel.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Flexible Work Hours

Paid Sick Leave

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

0%
Yahoo Finance
Feb 5th, 2026
Outside Interactive posts first profit with $125M revenue, shifts from ads to subscriptions

Outside Interactive, formerly Outside Media, reported its first profit in 2024 after five years of transformation under CEO Robin Thurston. The company generated $125 million in revenue, up 23% year-over-year. Since Thurston raised $150 million in February 2021, Outside has fundamentally restructured its business model. Digital subscriptions and recurring services now account for 60% of revenue, whilst digital advertising has shrunk to 40%, reversing the 70% advertising dependence of 2021. The company has acquired numerous businesses beyond traditional publishing, including fitness apps like MapMyFitness, mapping services like Trailforks, booking platform Inntopia, and photography platform FinisherPix. Thurston emphasises Outside Interactive is no longer a media company, having reoriented around these digital services whilst maintaining legacy outdoor titles including Ski, Backpacker and Yoga Journal.

PR Newswire
Dec 10th, 2024
Headliners Khruangbin And Lord Huron To Perform At The Second Annual Outside Festival Presented By Capital One And Rei Co-Op, May 31 - June 1, 2025

Early Bird Festival Tickets and VIP Packages on Sale This Wednesday, December 11DENVER, Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the overwhelming success of last year's event, the Outside Festival with presenting sponsors Capital One and REI Co-op will return to downtown Denver's Civic Center Park, May 31-June 1, 2025. Bigger and better, this year's event will feature a top shelf music lineup, films, speakers, outdoor sports, and much more. Tickets officially go on sale starting this Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 10 a.m. Mountain Standard Time

Adweek
Sep 3rd, 2024
Outside Interactive Acquires MapMyFitness

The company, now with 100 million registered users, is building a social network for outdoor enthusiasts.

Poynter Institute for Media Studies
May 24th, 2022
Pocket Outdoor Media, LLC acquired Outside Inc. on Feb 1st 21'.

The company has grown rapidly in the past two years, after Pocket Outdoor Media acquired Outside magazine and several other brands in February 2021 and changed its name to Outside.

Business Wire
Feb 22nd, 2021
Pocket Outdoor Media Closes Major Acquisitions, Rebrands as Outside

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pocket Outdoor Media Closes Major Acquisitions, Rebrands as Outside.