Senior Product Designer

Polarsteps; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Annual travel perk

MacBook provided

Hybrid work

Home office setup

30 days vacation

Culture days

Travel book perks

Team lunches

Amsterdam office location

Job summary

Polarsteps, an Amsterdam-based travel app company, is seeking a Product Designer to lead the visual and motion design of the Digital Relive experience. You will shape new visual language for shareable trip artefacts, work closely with product managers and developers, and bring concepts to life with motion prototypes.

You will contribute to a small, design-driven team that values collaboration, experimentation, and beautiful, user-centered design across the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing visually-driven products.
• Strong portfolio with shipped visual work including typography, motion, layout and storytelling.
• Proficiency with design tools like Figma and prototyping tools such as Principle or Protopie to turn concepts into prototypes.
• Hands-on craft with motion/video using After Effects and Premiere.
• UX/service-design sensibility to work with app data and flows and surface meaningful ideas.
• Proactive mindset to illustrate ideas with visual examples for developers.
• Comfortable in an agile team that moves fast and iterates incrementally.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of the Digital Relive team and build new ways for travelers to relive trips.
• Follows brand guidelines while shaping new visual and motion language for shareable artefacts like Trip Reels and Map Video.
• Own your product pillar and collaborate with product managers and developers, sharing feedback and providing motion prototypes.
• Translate motion and visual concepts into technical requirements with developers to ensure accurate implementation.

Skills

Visual design

Portfolio

Collaboration

Tools

Figma

Principle

Protopie

After Effects

Premiere

Job description

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

We're an Amsterdam-based team of 95+ (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 22 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.

What your journey at Polarsteps will look like on a typical day.

Lead the design of our "Digital Relive" team, focused on one of travel's most meaningful moments: looking back on it all. We're building new ways for travelers to relive their trips, both on the road and once they're home.

You will:

• Be involved throughout the full lifecycle of our shareable trip formats - concepting, prototyping in motion, and iterating based on design reviews, user testing, and share-rate data
• Use the existing design & brand guidelines while shaping new visual and motion language for shareable digital artefacts like Trip Reels and Map Video - and whatever we dream up next
• Own your product pillar but won't work in a bubble-proactively ask for and share feedback, and show developers exactly what you mean through visual examples and motion prototypes
• Work closely with Product Managers and developers to translate your motion and visual concepts into technical requirements, making sure they're built as intended - down to the last frame and pixel

The equipment in your backpack

Being a seasoned professional with 5+ years of experience designing lovable, visually-driven products

A strong portfolio, with shipped work, that leans heavily visual: typography, motion, layout, and storytelling, not just UX flows

Skills in design tools like Figma and prototyping tools Principle, or Protopie so that you turn a concept into a prototype developers can build from

Hands-on craft with motion and video - experience with tools like After Effects and Premiere

Enough UX/service-design sensibility to work with the data and flows already in the app, and a good instinct for what's worth surfacing and sharing

A proactive mindset and the creativity to whip up visual examples that show, not just tell, developers how something should look and feel

Comfortable working in an agile team environment that moves fast and iterates incrementally

Bonus points if you have:

A feel for social - since what you design will often end up as something travellers share to Instagram, TikTok, or their stories, experience designing for or around social platforms is a real plus. Not a dealbreaker if that's not your world; it's something we're happy to grow together.

Some cool things to make the journey extra sweet.

• Equity: You'll be able to participate in our Polarsteps SAR Plan.
• 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, our way. Work from home and the office, we ask everyone to be in the office2 days a week. It’s how we stay flexible, focused, and meaningfully connected in person.
• 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.