Senior Product Designer, Strava
Design Systems
$143-153k
Offers Equity
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
$143-153k
Offers Equity
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
- 3+ years of product design experience, with meaningful hands-on work in design systems, component libraries, or UI foundations
- A portfolio that demonstrates shipped design system work and its impact
- Experience designing and shipping for both native mobile and web platforms
- A high bar for visual and interaction design, paired with strong UX fundamentals
- A solid understanding of engineering complexity within design systems, including states, variants, and implementation constraints
- Comfort reading code and partnering closely with engineers to shape scalable, maintainable components
- Familiarity with design tokens, component libraries, and documentation tools such as Storybook or Zeroheight
- Practical knowledge of accessibility guidelines and inclusive design principles
- Experience working in cross-functional, Agile product teams
- Curiosity, a growth mindset, and a desire to continually improve tools, processes, and outcomes
What the job involves
- Strava’s Design Team advocates for our community and our business by crafting experiences that are inclusive, high-quality, and scalable
- We use design, research, data, and emotional intelligence to guide cross-functional teams toward our shared goal of building the best platform for athletes
- As a Senior Product Designer on the Design Systems team, you will focus on building, evolving, and maintaining Strava’s design system across mobile, web, and Apple Watch
- Your work will help teams ship faster while improving consistency, accessibility, and overall product quality
- This is a pure design systems role with a strong emphasis on execution, system craft, and close collaboration with engineering and product design partners
- This is an individual contributor role and does not include people management responsibilities. You will play a key role in shaping how teams across Strava design and build products through the quality, clarity, and usability of the design system
- Own and evolve major components and foundational patterns within Strava’s design system
- Design and maintain Figma libraries, components, tokens, and system documentation
- Define and refine UX and UI patterns used across multiple product teams
- Improve cross-platform parity across iOS, Android, web, and Apple Watch, while respecting platform conventions
- Partner closely with engineering on component APIs, states, variants, and theming to keep design and code aligned
- Contribute to design-to-code workflows and automation that reduce manual effort and speed up production
- Advance and maintain accessibility standards across system components and patterns
- Write clear documentation and usage guidelines that support consistent adoption across design and engineering
- Represent the design system in cross-team critiques, working sessions, and forums
- Support and mentor other designers through feedback, collaboration, and shared best practices
- Identify opportunities to modernize the product through improvements to the design system
- Apply a strong systems-thinking approach to complex, multi-platform problems
- Ship high-quality system improvements that are practical, scalable, and production-ready
- Clearly articulating design decisions, tradeoffs, and constraints
- Produce detailed interaction and UI specifications and partnering closely with engineers through implementation
- Embracing an inclusive, collaborative environment that values diverse perspectives
- Navigate ambiguity with confidence and taking initiative to move work forward
- Use feedback, data, and partner input to continuously improve the system
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.
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
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