Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
About Strava
Strava is the app for active people. With over 180 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where people make progress together, from new habits to new personal bests. No matter your sport or how you track it, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your goals, and make every effort count. 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.
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.
Additional Information
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.
This role is based in our Denver, CO office, with a hybrid in-office requirement of at least 3 days per week.
What you'll do:
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.
What you'll bring to the team:
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.
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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.