Staff Design Technologist (Android)

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

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