Product Designer - User

Looking for a new adventure? You’ve come to the right place.

We're an Amsterdam-based team of 70+ (and counting) with 20+ nationalities amongst us! A varied bunch of “Citizens of The World” with a wide range of skills and hundreds of thousands of kilometers under our travel belts. And we have something important in common (other than our very well-worn passports): We want to change the way people travel. 

And that's exactly what we're doing, with the travel app to plan, track, and relive trips in a smart and beautiful way.

Polarsteps has over 14 million users already, but, for us, this is just the beginning. We have big plans for the future, and so we need even more talented and enthusiastic people to help us on our journey.

Want to know more about us? Here you go.

Your expedition: Product Design at Polarsteps

We’re a small team, doing big things.

At Polarsteps, everyone—our CEO, Support Specialists, developers, Product Managers, and more—cares about design. It’s part of our DNA and embedded in every discussion. This gives you, as a Product Designer, the opportunity to make full use of your skills and craft your designs to perfection.

Our relatively small team consists of like-minded design enthusiasts who can geek out over the nitty-gritty details–corner radius, shadows, colors–for hours. We are big on collaboration, challenge each other, and make meetings as fun as they are productive. We dream big, move fast and welcome ideas, from anyone.

Your itinerary

What your journey at Polarsteps will look like day-to-day.

You will:

- Be the Product Designer in the Users team. This team focuses on helping users get the most out of Polarsteps, from app download to ‘aha moment’. For example, you'll work on perfecting the user onboarding and enhancing the virality and shareability of user profiles.

- Be involved throughout the product lifecycle—concepting, prototyping, and iterating based on design reviews, user testing, and feedback.

- Use the existing design & brand guidelines while also creating and adapting guidelines to elevate the overall Polarsteps design.

- Own your product pillar but won’t work in a bubble—proactively ask for and share feedback to keep our product smooth, consistent, and awesome.

- Work closely with Product Managers and developers to ensure your designs are well-specced and built as intended—down to the last pixel and color.

The equipment in your backpack

What we’re hoping you’ll bring with you.

- Being a seasoned professional with 5+ years of experience designing lovable products;

- A strong portfolio, with shipped designs, that demonstrates end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design;

- Experience designing for both native mobile apps and web platforms;

- Hands-on experience with user insights and testing, like A/B tests and usability studies.

- A proactive mindset, with a passion for getting involved in the entire product development process—thinking and problem-solving like a product manager;

- Skills in design tools like Figma/Sketch and prototyping tools like Principle/Protopie;

- Comfortable working in an agile team environment

1st class extras

Some cool things to make the journey extra sweet.

- A yearly free flight or train ride to a random location! Give our Teleporter a spin here.

- A shiny new MacBook to work your magic on.

- Hybrid working. Split your time between the office and your home as you see fit.

- An extensive home office set-up — everything from noise-canceling headphones to a standing desk.

- 30 days of vacation (for adventures or sitting on the couch, it's up to you)

- Two paid Culture Days for days that are important to you but not recognized by the official Dutch calendar.

- The option to switch up your zoom background by working from another country for up to 8 weeks a year.

- A personal development budget for that curious mind of yours!

- A pension plan to help you save for those around-the-world retirement trips.

- Delicious daily team lunches.

- Awesome monthly parties, as well as team trips away.

- A lively office in downtown Amsterdam, with travel costs reimbursed.

- Free Polarsteps Travel Books to contain all your far-flung adventures.

At Polarsteps, we believe the best products are built by people as diverse as the travelers using our apps! That's why we specifically encourage people underrepresented in the tech industry to apply for a role with us. Because we believe that diversity — be it age, race, sexual orientation, physical ability, ethnicity, or gender identity — makes both the world and the workplace better.

Think this is the path for you? Find out more about how we hire.