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

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience (or knowledge of) building within subscription based business models, partnering closely with Research on user needs and jobs, and experience in verticals such as social, mapping, cartography, data visualization, Apple Watch or other device design, and third party integrations.

Work Model

• Flexible hybrid model with more than half of time onsite in San Francisco office (three days per week).