Fastly

Associate Digital Designer

San Francisco, CA Full Time

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Posting Open Date: 11/04/2025

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 12/04/2025

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Associate Digital Designer (San Francisco, CA)

As an Associate Digital Designer at Fastly, you'll contribute to our brand's presence across all digital touchpoints. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to translate our brand identity into engaging digital experiences through web design, motion graphics, and interactive content. This role offers the opportunity to grow your skills in digital design while contributing to projects that drive customer engagement and business growth. You'll balance brand consistency with digital craft, supporting scalable solutions for our sales and marketing teams.

What You'll Do:

  • Design web experiences for Fastly.com and landing pages, focusing on usability and marketing objectives within established brand guidelines
  • Apply our established brand system across digital platforms, maintaining consistency and following best practices
  • Create motion graphics, animations, and digital content for campaigns and social media
  • Help maintain design systems, component libraries, and templates that support brand application across channels
  • Collaborate with web development, marketing, and product teams to implement digital experiences
  • Apply accessibility and performance best practices to support inclusive design

What We're Looking For: 

  • Digital design experience with foundational skills in web design, digital campaigns, and motion graphics
  • Portfolio demonstrating digital design work including web layouts, digital advertising, and animated content with attention to brand consistency
  • Familiarity with using AI-powered tools to enhance design efficiency in areas like asset creation, iteration, and exploration of design concepts.
  • Working knowledge of design tools like Figma and motion graphics software like After Effects
  • Basic understanding of responsive web design principles and how designs translate to web implementation
  • Familiarity with digital marketing channels such as social media, paid advertising, and landing pages
  • Understanding of fundamental UX principles and web accessibility basics
  • Self-directed work style with ability to manage projects and collaborate across teams
  • Strong communication skills and comfort working in a collaborative environment

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these: 

  • Exposure to analytics tools or data-informed design decisions
  • Experience creating animations or micro-interactions for web
  • Familiarity with SaaS products or B2B digital experiences
  • Any experience with content management systems or working alongside developers
  • Previous experience at technology companies or agencies serving tech clients
  • Basic familiarity with HTML/CSS or interest in learning technical aspects of digital design

Work Hours:

  • This position will require you to be available during core business hours. 

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: 

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

  • San Francisco, CA

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary: 

The estimated salary range for this position is $90,650 to $108,780.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits: 

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings? 

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2025, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days. 

 

Why Fastly?

  • We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

  • We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire, you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly, participate in hands-on learning opportunities, and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand. 

  • We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.

  • We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

All job applications must be submitted through our official careers site at www.fastly.com/about/careers. We will never request sensitive information, such as your Social Security number, bank account or credit card information during the application process.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901. 

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