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Senior Product Designer
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Experience
Senior · 5+ years
Job description
Product Designer at Polarsteps leading design for the 'Digital Relive' team, focused on ways travelers relive their trips, from in-app experiences to shareable formats like Trip Reels and Map Video.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Languages
- English
- Pay
- EUR 75,000 – 90,000 / year
What you'll do
- Lead the design of the "Digital Relive" team, focused on one of travel's most meaningful moments: looking back on it all, building new ways for travelers to relive their trips, both on the road and once they're home, from in-app experiences to shareable formats like Trip Reels and Map Video
- Oversee the full product lifecycle of concepting, prototyping, and iterating based on design reviews, user testing, feedback, and data like share rates
- Implement and maintain the existing design & brand guidelines while also creating and adapting guidelines to elevate the overall Polarsteps design, including the look and feel of shareable formats
- Own your product pillar, while maintaining close collaboration with the other pillars, proactively asking for and sharing feedback to keep the product smooth, consistent, and awesome
- Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to ensure designs are well-specced and built as intended, down to the last pixel and color
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of experience designing lovable products
- A strong portfolio, with shipped designs, that demonstrates end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design, with a strong visual eye for typography, layout, and storytelling
- Experience designing for native mobile apps
- 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
- Fluency in modern design tools such as Figma/Sketch or similar
- Experience in prototyping tools such as Principle/Protopie or similar
- Skills in partnering with engineers to drive QA processes and uphold implementation fidelity
- A genuine interest in motion, video, and visual storytelling, and the curiosity to grow in it
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with motion or video tools (like After Effects or Premiere), or with designing for social platforms like Instagram and TikTok
Your team
Digital Relive team
A relatively small team of like-minded design enthusiasts who geek out over the nitty-gritty details, are big on collaboration, challenge each other, and make meetings as fun as they are productive.
Benefits
- Salary range: Between EUR 75.000 - 90.000 gross per year incl 8% holiday allowance (based on 40 hours/week)
- Equity: participation in the Polarsteps SAR Plan
- A yearly free flight or train ride to a random location
- A shiny new MacBook
- Hybrid working: work from home and the office, with everyone in the office 2 days a week
- An extensive home office set-up, everything from noise-canceling headphones to a standing desk
- 30 days of vacation
- Two paid Culture Days
- The option to work from another country for up to 8 weeks a year
- A personal development budget
- A pension plan
- 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
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About Polarsteps
We want to change the way people travel.
Polarsteps offers the travel app to plan, track, and relive trips in a smart and beautiful way. It has over 22 million users.
Key facts
- 95+
- Amsterdam
- Travel app
- Amsterdam-based team of 95+ with 20+ nationalities
- Over 22 million users
- Travel app to plan, track, and relive trips
What they value
- Diversity
- Collaboration
- Dream big, move fast
- Welcome ideas from anyone