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Senior Manager, Workplace

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull TimeManager / HeadPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Workplace
  • facilities
  • real estate operations
  • people management
  • distributed teams
  • remote teams
  • multi-site operations
  • budget management
  • vendor negotiation
  • contract negotiation

Nice to have

  • international real estate
  • lease management
  • scaling operations
  • fast-growing company
  • workplace technology
  • badge access

Role summary

Strava is seeking a Senior Manager, Workplace to lead a team of workplace professionals, manage the global employee experience budget and real estate contracts, and develop a standardized Workplace playbook. This highly cross-functional role will partner with various teams to create productive, well-being-focused, and inclusive workplaces. The position is based onsite in San Francisco and requires direct oversight of the San Francisco office's day-to-day operations, including events, space planning, and systems. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in workplace, facilities, or real estate operations, with proven people management and budget management skills.

About Strava

Strava is the app for active people. With over 200 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.

About This Role

As Senior Manager, Workplace, reporting to the Director of People Ops and Workplace, you'll lead a team of workplace professionals across the US, own our global workplace employee experience budget and real estate contracts, and build a standardized Workplace playbook, covering security, visitor policy, and daily operations, that scales consistently across every office This role will work closely with our People Team and leadership teams to create workplaces that not only support employee productivity and well-being but also upholds the company's commitment to fostering an inclusive culture.

This is a highly cross functional role. You'll partner closely with People leadership, IT/Security, Executive Business Partners and regional workplace coordinators and office committee leaders as you work to create a creative, supportive and safe working environment across Strava, while staying hands-on with the day-to-day operations of our San Francisco office, which you'll continue to oversee directly.

This position is on-site in our San Francisco office, five days per week.

What You'll Do

  • Own and evolve Strava's global Workplace playbook, standardizing processes, procedures, and security/visitor protocols across all 9+ office locations

  • Manage and grow a team of workplace professionals (currently 3 FTE + 1 contractor) across multiple US offices, providing clear delegation, coaching, and support

  • Own the annual global employee experience workplace budget, including landlord relationships and vendor negotiations

  • Partner with People leadership, IT/Security, and Legal to ensure consistent security and compliance practices across all offices

  • Lead day-to-day workplace operations for Strava's San Francisco office (7 floors), including onsite events, space planning, and workplace systems

  • Collaborate with workplace coordinators in each office location to implement best practices and maintain consistency globally

  • Build scalable systems and processes that support Strava's continued global office expansion

What You'll Bring to the Team

  • 7+ years of experience in workplace, facilities, or real estate operations, with progressive responsibility

  • Proven experience managing people, ideally leading distributed or remote teams

  • Experience owning workplace or facilities operations across multiple sites or offices

  • Experience managing a budget of meaningful scale ($10M+), including vendor and contract negotiation

  • Experience with international real estate or lease management is a plus

  • Background scaling workplace operations at a fast-growing or expanding company is a plus

  • Familiarity with workplace technology and systems (badge access, space management platforms) is a plus

For more information on benefits, please click here.

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.

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