Strava is hiring: Senior Director, Product Design (San Francisco) in San Francis

Senior Director, Product Design Strava

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Base pay range

$335,000 $355,000 per year

Strava is the app for active people, with over 150million athletes in more than 185 countries. We motivate people to live their best active lives by connecting, motivating, and celebrating achievements. Whether youre shaping the technology, growing our community, or driving innovation, your work at Strava makes an impact.

About This Role

Were looking for a Senior Director, Product Design to lead our design strategy and vision across the organization. You will lead a 20+ person productdesign team, champion usercentered design practices, and ensure design excellence is integrated into every stage of product development. You will partner closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers to define design strategy, drive feature development, and establish design standards that elevate product quality.

What Youll Do

• Translate Stravas user needs and business goals into a design strategy that guides product decisions, roadmap prioritization, and feature development.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a highperforming design team through hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Influence product and engineering leaders through clear communication, datadriven advocacy, and relationship building 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, and design implementation across features such as map & cartography, AppleWatch, data visualization, and thirdparty integrations.

What Youll Bring to the Team

• 10+ years of product design experience with proven ability to develop strategies aligned with business goals and influence strategic decisions.
• Proven ability to lead highperforming 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 crossfunctional partners.
• Proven track record balancing design quality with shipping velocity in fastpaced environments while establishing efficient systems and standards.

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Why Join Us

Movement brings us together. At Strava, were building the worlds 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. When you join Strava, youre not just joining a companyyoure joining a movement.

Strava is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisionsincluding hiring, evaluation, termination, promotion, and trainingwithout regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancyrelated condition, marital status, height and/or weight. We will provide reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Compensation Range: $335K $355K

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