Senior Manager of Product Design, Strava

£117.9-131.3k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level

London

Social network for tracking run and cycle routes

Posted today

Social network for tracking run and cycle routes

501-1000 employees

B2CFitnessSocialSaaSCommunity

Posted today

£117.9-131.3k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level

London

501-1000 employees

B2CFitnessSocialSaaSCommunity

Company mission

To create the most committed, close, and engaged athlete community on the internet.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Demonstrated experience leading Product Design at a senior manager level (or equivalent), with a track record of managing designers and owning design direction across multiple product areas
Ability to set and articulate a clear design vision — not just reacting to what's in front of you, but establishing a point of view on where the product should go and bringing others along with it
Still in the work at a high level — you give precise, substantive craft feedback, engage in design decisions at the detail level, and set the bar through your own taste and judgment, not just through oversight
Demonstrated ability to raise craft and quality across a team — you develop others and build a culture where quality is expected, named, and consistently raised
Strong cross-functional partnership skills: you've worked alongside PM and Engineering leaders to shape product direction and you know how to hold a point of view in senior conversations
Experience with consumer product design at meaningful scale — you've worked on products that real people rely on, and you understand the responsibility that comes with that
Comfortable leading a distributed team across multiple European locations — London, Chamonix, and Berlin
Based in London or actively relocating

What the job involves

Own design direction and quality across Explore, Live, and Map — setting the craft bar, making decisions at the feature and project level, and establishing a point of view on where the product should go
Stay actively in the work: give precise, substantive craft feedback, engage in design decisions at the detail level, and set the standard through your own taste and judgment — not just through management
Directly manage and develop a team of 4 Product Designers distributed across London, Chamonix, and Berlin — with a focus on craft growth, career development, and raising the quality of their output through consistent, high-quality coaching
Partner with PM and Engineering leads for each vertical — contributing to product planning, shaping scope, and ensuring design is a meaningful input to decisions early
Lead design reviews, maintaining a high bar for craft and strategic clarity across all three verticals
Establish what "good" looks like on this team — through feedback culture, explicit standards, and your own example — so quality is named, expected, and consistently raised
Represent the London design perspective in conversations with the Senior Director of Product Design and the broader global Design org
Contribute to Strava's design system, cross-functional design culture, and shared standards across the product org

Salary benchmarks

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 the company into fresh competition with the likes of Peloton and Apple. In 2025, the company secured new funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital, growing its value to $2.2 billion.