Senior Manager of Product Design in London

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.

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

Comfortable leading a distributed team across multiple European locations — London, Chamonix, and Berlin. 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. 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. 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. 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. Based in London or actively relocating. 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. 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.