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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 Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners, and Jackson Square Ventures.
As Senior Manager, Workplace, you will report to the Director of People Ops and Workplace and lead a team of workplace professionals across the US. You will own Strava's 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 9+ office locations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own and evolve Strava's global Workplace playbook, standardizing processes, procedures, and security/visitor protocols across all 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
This is a highly cross-functional role requiring close partnership with People leadership, IT/Security, Executive Business Partners, and regional workplace coordinators. You will stay hands-on with day-to-day operations of the San Francisco office, which you will continue to oversee directly. The position 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)
