Business Strategy & Operations Manager, Strava
$125-145k
3+ days a week in office
Social network for tracking run and cycle routes
Be an early applicant
Social network for tracking run and cycle routes
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$125-145k
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
- This is an ideal opportunity for someone with prior experience in Strategy & Ops or someone looking to transition into tech from a management consulting background, who is passionate about consumer tech, fitness and marketing
- 2–4 years of experience at a top-tier management consulting firm or in a strategy role at a high-growth company
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to turn insights into action
- Expertise modeling in Excel and comfort with data (experience with SQL is a plus) as well as evaluating opportunities in data-light situations
- Ability to push back against stakeholders, using data to make compelling arguments
- Experience supporting or collaborating with marketing teams, ideally in areas like brand, partnerships, or growth
- Comfort with ambiguity and good intuition around how to have an impact without explicit direction
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to senior stakeholders
- Passion for Strava’s mission and the active lifestyle space
What the job involves
- Strava is seeking a highly analytical and collaborative Strategy & Operations Manager Analyst to join our Business Strategy team, with a specific focus on supporting our Marketing and Partnerships organizations.
- In this role, you’ll be a key partner to Strava’s marketing leadership, helping shape and refine our marketing investments across brand marketing, growth marketing and partnerships teams.
- You’ll bring structured thinking and analytical rigor to ambiguous problems and drive the organization toward higher business impact. Your work will improve our overall decision-making and refine the connection between our company strategy and team-level strategy
- Partner with leaders across Brand, Growth and Product Marketing, and Athletic & Community Partnerships to shape and refine strategic priorities
- Support annual and long-range planning efforts by connecting marketing strategies to broader company objectives
- Collaborate with Finance, Product, and Data Science to evaluate marketing investments and track business impact
- Support competitor benchmarking to evaluate our positioning, identify new opportunities and guide decision-making
- Build compelling strategic narratives and recommendations for executive-level stakeholders
- Serve as a thought partner across multiple marketing teams, helping translate business goals into actionable plans
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.
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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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