Senior Design Program Manager II

About This Role

Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 185 countries, Strava is where connection, motivation, and personal bests thrive. No matter your activity, gear, or goals, we help you find your crew, crush your milestones, and keep moving forward. Start your journey with Strava today.

Our mission is simple: to motivate people to live their best active lives. We believe in the power of movement to connect and drive people forward.

The Design Operations Team at Strava is responsible for ensuring the Design organization runs smoothly. We handle the work around the work: process, tooling, workflows, contracts, budgets and resourcing, and all of the other overhead that is required for Design to succeed. We are curious and visionary when it comes to our craft. We are looking for a Senior Design Program Manager II to elevate the successful execution of Strava’s Design programs. This position will have a broad reach and will require strong communication skills and experience to deftly engage with our partners across the product, brand, and research disciplines.

The ideal candidate thrives at bringing clarity to ambiguity, building effective production pipelines, and driving efficient, cross-functional collaboration. We are looking for a self-motivated, driven candidate who is adaptable, excited to dive in and help solve problems, and excels in a highly collaborative team culture.

In this role, you will collaborate across the design organization and build relationships with our cross-functional partners. You will be responsible for shaping new ways of working and helping teams realize the best outcomes of their work.

We follow a flexible hybrid model that generally translates to half your time on-site in our New York office— three days per week. Note this position will require approximately 10% domestic and international travel.

What You’ll Do:

• Drive operational methodologies to set up projects and teams for success.
• Build ways of working to drive impact across product and marketing teams.
• Promote and develop cross-functional relationships.
• Lead multiple work streams and programs that span the entire Design org.
• Define project scope and constraints across brand and product projects.
• Adeptly manage project risk.
• Build, grow and maintain clear cross-functional alignment and coordination throughout project lifecycles.
• Support the planning, intake, and resourcing to ensure alignment on team priorities.
• Manage tools, budgets, vendors, and documentation.

You Will Be Successful Here By:

• Adapting to opportunities and change.
• Breaking down complexities and helping the team see through ambiguity.
• Looking broadly at comprehensive needs and blockers across teams to identify the right solutions.
• Creating actionable plans from complex inputs.
• Fostering, growing, and maintaining strong relationships with our key partners, ensuring they are healthy, honest, and productive.
• Ensuring a supportive, invested, and empathetic stakeholder environment where Design can truly thrive.
• Envisioning and leading change.
• Creating space for and navigating through a diverse set of perspectives.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• 5-7+ years of operational or program experience in a creative or design setting.
• Understanding of product and marketing life cycles with the common roadblocks and challenges teams encounter.
• Capacity to ask questions, synthesize critical information, put ideas into action, and share findings.
• Ability to lead multiple initiatives and portfolios of work.
• Proven ability to define, map, and implement processes in a complex stakeholder environment.
• Strong communication skills and an ability to lead with empathy and clarity.
• Experience facilitating diverse stakeholder group input.
• Eagerness for new challenges, a growth-oriented approach,
• Experience in a digital startup environment is preferred but not required.
• Familiarity with PM and operational methodologies and frameworks such as Agile, Six Sigma, and Waterfall is a plus.

Compensation Overview:

At Strava, we know our employees are the most important ingredient to our success, and our compensation and total rewards programs reflect that. We take a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the department and your location. Salary ranges are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. We will determine the candidate’s starting pay based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. We may modify these ranges in the future. For more information, please contact your talent partner.

Compensation: $175,000 - $186,000. This range reflects base compensation only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more details about the full compensation package, including the range specific to your location, during the hiring process.

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Why Join Us?

Movement brings us together. At Strava, we’re building the world’s largest community of active people, helping them stay motivated and achieve their goals.

Our global team is passionate about making movement fun, meaningful, and accessible to everyone. Whether you’re shaping the technology, growing our community, or driving innovation, your work at Strava makes an impact.

When you join Strava, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a movement. If you’re ready to bring your energy, ideas, and drive, let’s build something incredible together.

Strava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. Just as we’re deeply committed to unlocking their potential, we’re dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and we’re expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community. We are continuously striving to hire and engage teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.

Strava is an equal opportunity employer. In keeping with the values of Strava, we make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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