Director, Technical Product Manager, Map Platform

About This Role

Strava is the app for active people. With over 135 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 and Join the Strava Club.

This role provides the opportunity to define and execute the product strategy for our mapping platform, which powers Strava's mobile and web user experiences. As a key product leader in a strategically important domain, you'll shape the product vision, drive innovation in geospatial technology and foster collaboration across teams to deliver impactful mapping solutions. You will play a crucial role in supporting and empowering our cross-functional team by guiding our culture and direction as we create exceptional mapping experiences for our users.

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

You’re excited about this opportunity because:

• This isn’t just another role—it’s an opportunity to lead product initiatives in a strategically significant domain, central to the company’s growth and innovation.
• You’ll have the opportunity to dig into complex technical challenges and opportunities, especially around mapping
• You’ll contribute to shaping both regional and global product strategies, serving as a key partner within the team.
• You’ll build solutions in the unique mapping space, where solving challenges like spatial accuracy and geographic visualization brings tangible, real-world impact.
• You’ll play a key role in fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, promoting shared purpose and alignment across teams.
• You’ll help advance a positive mission and vision, supporting the movement of people around the world.

You will be successful here by:

• Establishing the product strategy & roadmap for our proprietary mapping platform while ensuring stakeholders across engineering, design, and business are aligned on priorities and execution.
• Leading the team to create innovative, scalable, high-quality mapping solutions that integrate seamlessly with user-facing features to make outdoor fitness activities easy to discover, experience and share - in a way no other company can.
• Defining unique product strategies that deliver measurable user and business value to solve key mapping challenges including spatial accuracy, 3D visualization, real-time data integration, predictive analytics & recommendations, enhanced searching capabilities, and community data integration.
• Ensuring Strava’s mapping solutions respect user privacy, meet the company’s security standards, address users’ accessibility needs and are localized to support a diverse, global audience.
• Creating an environment where employees feel empowered and aligned with the company’s mission.
• Coaching and mentoring direct reports and the cross-functional team to ensure clear communication, focus and progress against shared goals and operational efficiency.
• Demonstrating a bias for action and the ability to make high-stakes decisions that propel the product and company forward.

We’re excited about you because:

• 8+ years of experience in technical product management, with at least 3 years focused on mapping, geospatial systems, or real-time location-based services.
• Hands-on experience in industries leveraging geospatial data, such as gaming, autonomous vehicles, AR/VR, logistics, or environmental monitoring, with demonstrated ability to translate technical mapping challenges into successful product outcomes.
• Experience defining and delivering product roadmaps for geospatial platforms or location-based services with a track record of prioritizing features to maximize user impact and business value.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams in designing, building, and scaling mapping products or services.
• Proven ability to translate technical mapping challenges into user-centric product outcomes, balancing stakeholder requirements with technical feasibility.
• Proven ability to drive organizational alignment across engineering, design, data science, and product teams.
• Prior experience in roles such as a Software Engineer working with large-scale mapping datasets or an advanced degree (e.g., Master’s) in Computer Science, Data Science, or related fields, with specialization related to spatial data.

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: €139,524 - €169,205. 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.

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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, and we are unified in our commitment to becoming an antiracist company. 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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