Senior Manager, Product Design

About the role

This role owns the end to end design of the Explore, Live, and Map surfaces that power how athletes discover, navigate, and share their active world in real time. You will set the craft bar and strategic design direction for these high-stakes, technically rich product areas that sit at the heart of what makes Strava essential. You will manage and directly develop a team of four designers spread across London, Chamonix, and Berlin, focusing on craft growth and career development. You will partner closely with product and engineering leaders to ensure design is a meaningful input from the earliest stages of shaping these verticals. You will establish a strong London design perspective within the global design organization and represent this voice in conversations with the Senior Director of Product Design. Finally, you will contribute to the broader Strava design system and cross-functional design culture to maintain consistency and quality across the product org.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Own design direction and quality across Explore, Live, and Map, setting the craft bar, making feature level decisions, and establishing a clear point of view on where the product should go.
• Stay actively in the work by giving precise, substantive craft feedback, engaging in design decisions at the detail level, and setting the standard through your own taste and judgment rather than only through oversight.
• Directly manage and develop a team of four product designers distributed across London, Chamonix, and Berlin, focusing 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 in the process.
• Lead design reviews to maintain a high bar for craft and strategic clarity across all three verticals, ensuring alignment and quality at every stage.
• Establish what good looks like on this team through a strong 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 organization to ensure alignment and cohesion.
• Contribute to Strava's design system, cross-functional design culture, and shared standards across the product organization to support consistency and efficiency.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading Product Design at a senior manager level, 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 is in front of you, but establishing a point of view on where the product should go and bringing others along with it.
• Still actively engaged in the work at a high level, providing precise, substantive craft feedback and engaging in design decisions at the detail level.
• Demonstrated ability to raise craft and quality across a team, developing others and building a culture where quality is expected, named, and consistently raised.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills, having worked alongside PM and Engineering leaders to shape product direction and knowing how to hold a point of view in senior conversations.
• Experience with consumer product design at meaningful scale, having worked on products that real people rely on, and understanding the responsibility that comes with that.
• Comfortable leading a distributed team across multiple European locations, including London, Chamonix, and Berlin.
• Based in London or actively relocating to support the regional design hub.

Nice to have

• Experience designing for mapping, navigation, real-time data, or location based products.
• Experience with AI powered product features, health and fitness products, or building design culture in a regional office.
• Familiarity with Strava as a user or designer, while not required, is a bonus.

Practical notes

This role follows a flexible hybrid model requiring more than half of your time on-site in the Strava London office, three days per week. No additional information on compensation, official application pages, travel, visa requirements, or deadlines is provided in this source document.