Strava · 1 day ago
Senior Director, Product Design
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$335K/yr - $355K/yr
10+ years expStrava is the app for active people, motivating individuals to live their best active lives. They are seeking a Senior Director, Product Design to lead a product design team, champion user-centered design practices, and integrate design excellence into product development.
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Responsibilities
Translate Strava's user needs and business goals into a design strategy that guides product decisions, roadmap prioritization, and feature development
Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing design team through hiring, performance management, and career development
Influence product and engineering leaders through clear communication, data-driven advocacy, and relationship building—earning trust to shape product direction
Make informed design decisions that balance quality with velocity, establishing processes and systems that enable execution at scale
Partner across research, product, engineering, and brand/marketing to align on design requirements and ensure excellence throughout development
Approve product designs from information architecture to design system components to visual design, motion, rive, visual design, map and cartography, apple watch designs, data visualization, partner and third party integration and design implementation
Qualification
Required
10+ years of product design experience with proven ability to develop strategies aligned with business goals and influence strategic decisions
Proven ability to lead high performing design teams, with demonstrated success recruiting, managing, and retaining strong talent
Exceptional ability to build relationships and drive alignment across product design, product management, engineering and other cross-functional partners
Proven track record balancing design quality with shipping velocity in fast-paced environments while establishing efficient systems and standards
Preferred
Experience (or knowledge of) building within subscription based business models
Ability to partner closely with Research on user needs and jobs
Ability to partner with business strategy partners
Experience in some of these verticals: social, mapping, cartography, data visualization, Apple Watch or other device design, and third party integrations
Company
Strava
Strava is a social fitness app that tracks running, cycling, and workouts, connecting athletes.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (14)
2024 (5)
2023 (4)
2022 (6)
2021 (12)
2020 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$151.85MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalSequoia Capital,TCVJackson Square Ventures
2025-05-22Series Unknown
2025-05-22Debt Financing
2020-11-17Series F· $110M
Leadership Team
Michael Martin
CEO & Board Member
Rob Terrell
Chief Technology Officer
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