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

The Office of the CEO operates at the center of Strava's most consequential decisions. Our Chief of Staff and Product Operations, leads a function committed to making the executive office run with precision, clarity, and trust. As Strava scales toward its next chapter, the executive support team needs dedicated people leadership as much as it needs operational excellence.

As Senior Manager, Executive Business Partner (a title formerly known Executive Assistant), you will lead a team of 7 EBPs while remaining closely embedded in the CEO's office alongside the Chief of Staff to the CEO. This is a player-coach role in the truest sense, you are responsible for the performance and development of your team and for ensuring the CEO's operational needs are met with the highest level of judgment and discretion. The right person leads by example, models calm in high-stakes moments, and raises the bar of everyone around them.

This is a full-time, in-office role based in our San Francisco office.

What You'll Do

• Own and evolve the CEO's operational rhythm in partnership with the Chief of Staff and Product Operations, including calendar prioritization, planning systems, and communications frameworks

• Manage, develop, and support a team of 7 EBPs through regular 1:1s, career development conversations, performance management, and day-to-day coaching

• Lead communications on sensitive and high-priority matters on behalf of the CEO, ensuring clarity and consistency across leadership audiences, including the Board of Directors

• Partner with direct manager and senior leaders to track priorities, drive completion of key deliverables, and surface what needs attention before it becomes urgent

• Prepare and oversee executive-level meeting materials, briefings, and readouts including capturing what was said and what was left unsaid

• Shape team standards, accountability frameworks, and operational processes that elevate the EBP function across the organization

• Coordinate complex domestic and international travel; manage expenses, purchase orders, contracts, and budget tracking as needed

• Support special projects and cross-functional initiatives that enable the CEO's office and EBP team to operate at their best

What You'll Bring to the Team

• 5+ years of experience supporting C-suite executives (as a Senior Executive Assistant or Senior Executive Business Partner), ideally a CEO or equivalent, in a high-growth or scaling technology company

• 2+ years of proven people management experience you have led, developed, and performance-managed a team of EBPs, EAs, or similar operational professionals

• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools to improve operational efficiency, communications, and executive support workflows.

• Ability to build and evolve operational systems for prioritization, performance tracking, and executive-level planning

• Strong executive communications skills — you write, edit, and manage sensitive communications on behalf of senior leaders with clarity, discretion, and the right tone for every audience

• The ability to influence without authority, hold boundaries with empathy, and model calm and stability in high-stakes situations

• Exceptional discretion with sensitive information, meaning you are trusted, honest, and dependable without exception

• Experience coaching and developing executive support professionals; you raise the people around you, not just the work

• Experience managing a team through a significant company transition (IPO, rapid scale, or organizational change) is a plus

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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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