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Growing subscribers with human context

Problem indicator - frame 1 of 5

Early subscription growth efforts didn't always perform well, lacking connection to human problems & context

Solution indicator - frame 1 of 3

I shifted the team's approach to focus on real athlete challenges, helping drive $6.3MM in additional annual subscription revenue

Role & Scope

Senior Product Designer
Growth Design
Data Analysis
Hypothesis Driven Design
Marcomm Design
Mobile App
Multi-variant Experiments
Research
Web App
Ideation Workshop

Duration

1 year · 2021-22

Team

Strava
Allison Boyd
Andros Slowley
Faraz Mohamed Rafi
Rip Sanghani
Sarah Kelman
Tanyu Yuba
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Outcomes & Design Samples

We fixed the experiment backlog to solve real problems, grew subscriptions, and didn’t wreck the product doing it.

As the first designer on a newly established subscription growth team, I helped shift our approach by reverse engineering backlog ideas into human problems, collaborating with research to run ideation sessions along the athlete journey. Alongside building smarter growth experiments, I also made sure our work respected the overall product, working within an existing design system and partnering with designers to form new patterns. My contributions helped drive ~$6.3M in annual subscription growth revenue.
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$6.3M

Est. annual booking impact

Upward trend - frame 1 of 4

~90k

Subscription starts

Growth experiment on registration in Strava app detailing when subscriber free trial and when payment is required
Monthly or annual subscription rate selection in bottom sheet
Page showcasing different types of trail routes on Strava web for SEO
Various strava subscription UI cards with different features that are being upsold

What were my most successful experiments?
How did I work with developers?
How did I reverse-engineer our backlog of ideas?
Which experiments were failures & learning opportunities?
What came from the team ideation workshop?

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