Polarsteps

Senior Product Designer

Polarsteps

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Amsterdam • Netherlands

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead the design of our “Track” team, which lies at the heart of Polarsteps, where travelers capture their routes and memories. You’ll be the sole designer in a mature and stable team, responsible for end-to-end design execution.
  • Oversee the full product lifecycle of concepting, prototyping, and iterating based on design reviews, user testing, and feedback.
  • Drive key optimizations in the core tracking flows while contributing to new experiments that push the experience forward.
  • Implement and maintain the existing design & brand guidelines while also creating and adapting guidelines to elevate the overall Polarsteps design.
  • Own the design, together with your Product Manager, while maintaining close collaboration with the other pillars. Proactively ask for and share feedback to keep our product smooth, consistent, and awesome.
  • Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to ensure your designs are well-specced and built as intended, down to the last pixel and color.

Requirements

  • 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 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.
Benefits
  • Flex Hybrid - Tue/Thu for possible in-person meeting days
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Hard Skills & Tools
end-to-end product designUX designUI designmobile app designuser testingA/B testingusability studiesprototypingdesign executiondesign optimization
Soft Skills
proactive mindsetproblem-solvingcollaborationfeedback sharingcommunication