Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
Strava đşđ¸ San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Senior Product Designer, you will own and evolve major components within Stravaâs design system, focusing on improving consistency and product quality. You will collaborate closely with engineering and product design partners to ensure alignment between design and code.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve major components and foundational patterns within Stravaâs 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
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, 401(k) matching, and paid time off
- Opportunity to work on a leading digital community for active people, with a mission to motivate people to live their best active lives
Key Skills
About Strava
Strava is Swedish for âstrive,â which epitomizes who we are and what we do. Weâre a passionate and committed team, unified by our mission to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. And with billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and audacious vision: to be the record of the worldâs athletic activities and the technology that makes every effort count. Strava builds software that makes the best part of our athletesâ days even better. And just as weâre deeply committed to unlocking their potential, weâre dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. Weâre backed by Sequoia Capital, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and weâre expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community â we are continuously striving to hire and engage diverse teammates from all backgrounds, experiences an
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