We help everyday runners become outstanding by providing world-class training, coaching and community for everyone, whether you're improving your 5k time or training for your first marathon. To date we have built iOS, Android and Apple watch apps that help people achieve their goals by coaching them through the full journey and syncing to their favourite fitness devices.
We’re growing extremely fast and in November 2023 closed a new $6.5M funding round led by JamJar with participation from Eka Ventures, Venrex and Creator Ventures. In 2024, we were selected by Apple as one of three global finalists for the 2024 iPhone App of the Year, reflecting the innovation and impact of what we’ve built. We want to grow as fast as we can into the future and are looking for individuals who will help us get there. For more about our background and growth check out our Careers Page!
We’re now looking ahead to the future and the people who want to help us build and scale Runna. Our aim is to reach millions of subscribers in the next 5 years and be the go-to training platform for any runner. Now is a magical time to join, we're still small, and everyone makes a foundational difference.
We are looking for a talented, creative and positive team player to join our highly-skilled Product Design Team to help design new features for our iOS, Android and Apple watch applications and third-party integrations (Garmin, Strava, Coros, Suunto etc). You will work closely with our founders, designers, engineers, PM and most importantly customers, to help shape the future of Runna, who will be there to support you all the way along this exciting journey.
As a Head of Design your role will to own the full end-to-end product design lifecycle at Runna from research and discovery to design and development:
You will be reporting directly to Dom (Co-Founder and CEO).
Our plans for Design at Runna in 2025
We currently have three amazing designers at Runna - Alp (UI/UX Design Lead), Celine (Product Designer) and Misha (Senior Product Designer) and we would like to grow our design team to more than 5 people by June. That means as well as managing our current team, you’ll be immediately hiring for 1-2 roles with more in the second half of the year. In addition, we’d also love you to own our hiring strategy → UK or US, senior or junior, ‘full-stack’ or specialist design roles, beginner runners (to empathise with new users) or experienced runners who really understand the demographic/problems.
Finally, Runna is growing incredibly quickly and we reinvest all of our profits into building a better product. As such the design team will be scaling quickly over the coming years as will your role and responsibilities!
We are looking for candidates based in London or Boston, as well as New York with the ability to travel to Boston once per month. You will get to travel between our offices every ~6 months too!