Director of Technical Product Management, Strava
Map Platform
€139.5-169.2k
More information about location
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
€139.5-169.2k
More information about location
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
- 8+ years of experience in technical product management, with at least 3 years focused on mapping, geospatial systems, or real-time location-based services
- Hands-on experience in industries leveraging geospatial data, such as gaming, autonomous vehicles, AR/VR, logistics, or environmental monitoring, with demonstrated ability to translate technical mapping challenges into successful product outcomes
- Experience defining and delivering product roadmaps for geospatial platforms or location-based services with a track record of prioritizing features to maximize user impact and business value
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams in designing, building, and scaling mapping products or services
- Proven ability to translate technical mapping challenges into user-centric product outcomes, balancing stakeholder requirements with technical feasibility
- Proven ability to drive organizational alignment across engineering, design, data science, and product teams
- Prior experience in roles such as a Software Engineer working with large-scale mapping datasets or an advanced degree (e.g., Master’s) in Computer Science, Data Science, or related fields, with specialization related to spatial data
What the job involves
- This isn’t just another role—it’s an opportunity to lead product initiatives in a strategically significant domain, central to the company’s growth and innovation
- You’ll have the opportunity to dig into complex technical challenges and opportunities, especially around mapping
- You’ll contribute to shaping both regional and global product strategies, serving as a key partner within the team
- You’ll build solutions in the unique mapping space, where solving challenges like spatial accuracy and geographic visualization brings tangible, real-world impact
- You’ll play a key role in fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, promoting shared purpose and alignment across teams
- You’ll help advance a positive mission and vision, supporting the movement of people around the world
- Establishing the product strategy & roadmap for our proprietary mapping platform while ensuring stakeholders across engineering, design, and business are aligned on priorities and execution
- Leading the team to create innovative, scalable, high-quality mapping solutions that integrate seamlessly with user-facing features to make outdoor fitness activities easy to discover, experience and share - in a way no other company can
- Defining unique product strategies that deliver measurable user and business value to solve key mapping challenges including spatial accuracy, 3D visualization, real-time data integration, predictive analytics & recommendations, enhanced searching capabilities, and community data integration
- Ensuring Strava’s mapping solutions respect user privacy, meet the company’s security standards, address users’ accessibility needs and are localized to support a diverse, global audience
- Creating an environment where employees feel empowered and aligned with the company’s mission
- Coaching and mentoring direct reports and the cross-functional team to ensure clear communication, focus and progress against shared goals and operational efficiency
- Demonstrating a bias for action and the ability to make high-stakes decisions that propel the product and company forward
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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