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Staff Design Technologist (Android)

San Francisco, CA

About This Role

Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 190 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where connection, motivation, and personal bests thrive. No matter your activity, gear, or goals, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your milestones, and keep moving forward. Start your journey with Strava today.

Strava’s Design Team advocates for our community members and our business, setting and executing on the vision for our product to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. We use design, research, data, strategy and empathy to guide cross-functional teams toward our common goal of becoming the preeminent platform for athletes. It is important to us to include diverse perspectives, and empower our teams to do great work.

As a Staff Design Technologist, you will lead multiple projects that involve significant scope and complexity. This role is part of the Design System team (Frameworks and Tools) and will be crucial for designing and developing high-quality features and products that provide a best-in-class experience for Strava users.

In this role, you will work closely with designers from both the product and brand teams, along with engineers, researchers, data analysts, and product managers to create intuitive, human-centered experiences that are ready for implementation.

Your responsibilities will include bridging the gap between design and code by developing mobile prototypes using Jetpack Compose. You will work with the codebase to automate specific tasks within the design systems and translate Figma files into app code as part of working prototypes.

Strong skills in Figma and experience in prototyping with Jetpack Compose are essential, as well as a background in implementing motion and animation in products.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to identify gaps and opportunities for improving efficiency by streamlining the project handoff from the design team to engineering.

We follow a flexible hybrid model that generally translates to around half your time on-site in our San Francisco office—roughly three days per week.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will: 

  • Lead design efforts by building mobile prototypes in Jetpack Compose
  • Drive efficiency in design and development workflows by efficiently connecting the designs and code, enabling rapid iteration
  • Test, learn and champion new tools and technologies to enhance animation and interactivity within our product. Serve as a key resource and point of contact across the business for leveraging our tooling stack.
  • Partner with motion designers to seamlessly integrate interactive motion with tools like Rive and Spline.
  • Define motion standards in product for state machine structures, naming, and performance guidelines.
  • Partner with the research team to develop prototypes for user research and usability testing that validate features and optimize them for user needs and behaviors.
  • Lead initiatives to enhance and upgrade accessibility standards for our product through design and coding practices.
  • Collaborate with designers and engineers to efficiently connect code and design by using Tokens, Dev mode, Figma variables, Storybook, Style Dictionary, Plug-ins and Tools integration.
  • Partner with engineers and designers to QA and code review, as well as creating comprehensive documentation for ensuring smooth onboarding that will foster deep understanding of system capabilities
  • Collaborate with product managers, product designers, and engineers on experimentation initiatives.
  • Make a direct and measurable impact on our business growth.

You will be successful here by:

  • Embracing an inclusive and collaborative environment that amplifies a diverse range of voices and experiences.
  • Having mastery of front-end languages such as Jetpack compose
  • Proactively enhancing efficiency in design and development workflows by connecting the designs and code, enabling rapid iteration from concept to in-app implementation.
  • Proactively identifying opportunities to uplevel our product experience by creating intuitive prototypes that can be easily shipped to production.
  • Clearly and effectively communicating your decisions and linking them to team goals and objectives.
  • Creating detailed specifications for your prototypes that are easily transferable to engineering for implementation.
  • Participating in qualitative research and quantitative analysis, and experiments
  • Experience in building design tooling such as Figma Plugins is a plus

We’re excited about you because you have:

  • Advanced knowledge in UI/UX design and developing prototypes via Jetpack Compose
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in developing prototypes for native mobile applications
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in Figma
  • Minimum 3 years of experience in Jetpack Compose
  • Experience integrating motion and animation tools like Rive and Spline into the product
  • A portfolio that showcases production-ready prototypes, highlighting what you've delivered and their impact
  • You have experience working with CMS solutions such as Contentful or Storybook to Jetpack Compose components
  • Advanced knowledge of the end-to-end product design process, demonstrating a command of product strategy, distilling the jobs to be done for the users, journey mapping, prototyping, user testing, and high-fidelity designs
  • Experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript is a plus
  • Strong design and systems thinking, and attention to detail, including colors, typography, spacing, accessibility, and reusable global components.
  • Passion for testing ideas, taking smart risks, and learning from them
  • Experience working in an Agile software organization, in cross-functional teams/pods/vertical teams
  • Demonstrated the power of design and development to drive business impact 

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:$231,800-$246,200. The base salary posted is within the compensation range for this role. This range reflects base pay only and does not include, equity, or benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

For more information on benefits, please click here.

About Strava

Strava is Swedish for “strive,” which epitomizes who we are and what we do. We’re a passionate and committed team, unified by our mission to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. With billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and adventurous vision: to be the record of the world’s athletic activities and the technology that makes every effort count.

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 diverse teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.

Despite challenges in the world around us, we are continuing to grow camaraderie and positivity within our culture. We are differentiated by our truly people-first approach, our compassionate leadership, and our belief that we can bring joy and inspiration to athletes’ lives — now more than ever. All to say, it’s a great time to join Strava!

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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