Senior Product Designer

The role

You will lead the design of the Digital Relive team to build ways for travelers to relive trips through in-app experiences and shareable formats. You will oversee the full product lifecycle from concepting to prototyping and iteration.

What you will do

• Lead the design of the Digital Relive team
• Oversee the full product lifecycle of concepting, prototyping, and iterating
• Implement and maintain existing design and brand guidelines
• Create and adapt guidelines to elevate the Polarsteps design
• Own your product pillar
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to ensure designs are well-specced and built as intended

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing lovable products
• Strong portfolio with shipped designs demonstrating end-to-end hybrid UX and UI product design
• 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
• Proactive mindset with a passion for the entire product development process
• 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
• Genuine interest in motion, video, and visual storytelling

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with motion or video tools (like After Effects or Premiere)
• Designing for social platforms like Instagram and TikTok

Benefits

• Participation in Polarsteps SAR Plan
• A yearly free flight or train ride to a random location
• A new MacBook
• Hybrid working
• Extensive home office set-up
• 30 days of vacation
• Two paid Culture Days
• Option to work from another country for up to 8 weeks a year
• Personal development budget
• Pension plan
• Daily team lunches
• Monthly parties and team trips away

About the company

Polarsteps is an Amsterdam-based team of 95+ people with a travel app to plan, track, and relive trips. The company has over 22 million users.