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Strava is a global community platform for active people with over 200 million athletes across 185+ countries. The company is backed by top-tier VCs including Sequoia Capital and TCV.
As Senior Manager, Workplace, you will lead Strava's global workplace operations and employee experience across 9+ office locations worldwide. Reporting to the Director of People Ops and Workplace, you'll manage a team of workplace professionals (currently 3 FTE + 1 contractor) distributed across multiple US offices and oversee the global workplace budget and real estate contracts.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning and evolving Strava's global Workplace playbook, standardizing processes, security protocols, and visitor policies across all office locations
- Managing and coaching a distributed team of workplace professionals, providing clear delegation and support
- Owning the annual global employee experience workplace budget, including landlord relationships and vendor negotiations
- Partnering with People leadership, IT/Security, and Legal to ensure consistent security and compliance practices
- Leading day-to-day workplace operations for the San Francisco office (7 floors), including onsite events, space planning, and workplace systems
- Collaborating with workplace coordinators in each office to implement best practices and maintain global consistency
- Building scalable systems and processes to support continued global office expansion
This is a highly cross-functional role requiring close partnership with People leadership, IT/Security, Executive Business Partners, and regional office leaders. You'll stay hands-on with SF operations while driving standardization and scalability across the global footprint. The role is on-site in San Francisco, five days per week.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 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 (preferred)
- Background scaling workplace operations at a fast-growing or expanding company (preferred)
- Familiarity with workplace technology and systems such as badge access and space management platforms (preferred)
