Staff Design Technologist, Strava
iOS
$231.8-246.2k
3+ days a week in office
Social network for tracking run and cycle routes
Open for applications
Social network for tracking run and cycle routes
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$231.8-246.2k
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create the most committed, close, and engaged athlete community on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- Strong skills in Figma and experience in prototyping with Swift UI are essential, as well as a background in implementing motion and animation in products
- Embracing an inclusive and collaborative environment that amplifies a diverse range of voices and experiences
- Having mastery of front-end languages such as Swift UI
- Proactively enhancing efficiency in design and development workflows by connecting the designs and code, enabling rapid iteration from concept to in-app implementation
- Proactively identifying opportunities to uplevel our product experience by creating intuitive prototypes that can be easily shipped to production
- Clearly and effectively communicating your decisions and linking them to team goals and objectives
- Creating detailed specifications for your prototypes that are easily transferable to engineering for implementation
- Participating in qualitative research and quantitative analysis, and experiments
- Experience in building design tooling such as Figma Plugins is a plus
- Advanced knowledge in UI/UX design and developing prototypes via Swift UI
- Minimum 5 years of experience in developing prototypes for native mobile applications
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Figma
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Swift UI
- Experience integrating motion and animation tools like Rive and Spline into the product
- A portfolio that showcases production-ready prototypes, highlighting what you've delivered and their impact
- You have experience working with CMS solutions such as Contentful or Storybook to Swift UI components
- Advanced knowledge of the end-to-end product design process, demonstrating a command of product strategy, distilling the jobs to be done for the users, journey mapping, prototyping, user testing, and high-fidelity designs
- Experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript is a plus
- Strong design and systems thinking, and attention to detail, including colors, typography, spacing, accessibility, and reusable global components
- Passion for testing ideas, taking smart risks, and learning from them
- Experience working in an Agile software organization, in cross-functional teams/pods/vertical teams
- Demonstrated the power of design and development to drive business impact
What the job involves
- Strava’s Design Team advocates for our community members and our business, setting and executing on the vision for our product to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best
- We use design, research, data, strategy and empathy to guide cross-functional teams toward our common goal of becoming the preeminent platform for athletes
- It is important to us to include diverse perspectives, and empower our teams to do great work
- As a Staff Design Technologist, you will lead multiple projects that involve significant scope and complexity
- This role is part of the Design System team (Frameworks and Tools) and will be crucial for designing and developing high-quality features and products that provide a best-in-class experience for Strava users
- In this role, you will work closely with designers from both the product and brand teams, along with engineers, researchers, data analysts, and product managers to create intuitive, human-centered experiences that are ready for implementation
- Your responsibilities will include bridging the gap between design and code by developing mobile prototypes using Swift UI
- You will work with the codebase to automate specific tasks within the design systems and translate Figma files into app code as part of working prototypes
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams to identify gaps and opportunities for improving efficiency by streamlining the project handoff from the design team to engineering
- Lead design efforts by building mobile prototypes in Swift UI
- Drive efficiency in design and development workflows by efficiently connecting the designs and code, enabling rapid iteration
- Test, learn and champion new tools and technologies to enhance animation and interactivity within our product. Serve as a key resource and point of contact across the business for leveraging our tooling stack
- Partner with motion designers to seamlessly integrate interactive motion with tools like Rive and Spline
- Define motion standards in product for state machine structures, naming, and performance guidelines
- Partner with the research team to develop prototypes for user research and usability testing that validate features and optimize them for user needs and behaviors
- Lead initiatives to enhance and upgrade accessibility standards for our product through design and coding practices
- Collaborate with designers and engineers to efficiently connect code and design by using Tokens, Dev mode, Figma variables, Storybook, Style Dictionary, Plug-ins and Tools integration
- Partner with engineers and designers to QA and code review, as well as creating comprehensive documentation for ensuring smooth onboarding that will foster deep understanding of system capabilities
- Collaborate with product managers, product designers, and engineers on experimentation initiatives
- Make a direct and measurable impact on our business growth
Our take
Strava has created an online network where runners, swimmers and cyclists can record fitness activities, and compare and compete with their community. It offers both a free and premium subscription service with added features. The company also partners with local councils and urban planners who purchase valuable journey data from Strava which can be used to map out cities and develop safer cycle paths.
The platform helps members discover and plan workouts, as well as offering a leaderboard which is updated using GPS as users compete for the top spot on particular fitness segments.
With over 125 million athletes and growing, Strava released several new product rollouts in 2024, including an AI-enabled leaderboard. A partnership with the wearable fitness tracker Oura will mean Strava software is available on wearables, taking Strava into fresh competition with the likes of Peloton and Apple.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2020
$110m
SERIES F
Oct 2014
$18m
LATE VC
Total funding: $151.4m
Company benefits
- Competitive base salary & stock options
- 100% company paid benefits for employees and families
- Flexible paid time off
- $2,000 annual professional development stipend
- Paid time off for volunteering
- 401(k) plan - with company matching
- $1000 annual gear stipend
- $500 annual gym or coaching reimbursement
- On-site fitness rooms with showers, lockers, and towel service
- Weekly team workouts – including remote employees
- Safe and secure bike storage on-site
- Weekly all hands meetings
- Employee resource groups
- Anti-racism nonprofit company matching program
- Free lunch on Wednesdays on-site
- Regular team happy hours
- Team offsites and company retreats
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Generous industry discounts on gear and activities
- Race entries to events we sponsor
- Snacks and stocked kitchens on-site
- Strava gear
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Gainey
(Chairman)Having studied at Harvard, Mark started their career as a TA Associates Associate before co-founding Kana Communications and several Board Membership roles. They co-founded Strava in 2007, serving since as Chairman.
Michael Horvath
(CEO & Board Member)Michael co-founded Kana with Mark before working as an Economics Professor at Stanford and Dartmouth. They worked for 4 years as CFO of GlycoFi before co-founding Strava, serving initially as CEO and since 2017 as a Board Member.
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