Senior Product Manager
Looking for a new adventure? You’ve come to the right place.
We're an Amsterdam-based team of 85 (and counting) with 25+ 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 19 million users already, but, for us, this is just the beginning. We have super ambitious plans and we need a talented Product Manager to help us on our journey.
Want to know more about us? Here you go.
Your expedition: Product at Polarsteps
We’re a small team, doing big things.
The impact you can make from day one is huge, with everything you ship affecting more than 18 million users.
At Polarsteps, our Product team is on a mission to reinvent the travel experience, one seamless step at a time. We work in tight-knit, cross-disciplinary teams: Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers join forces to solve real traveler problems with features that spark joy. You’ll be the go-to person for one of our core product pillars, balancing day-to-day optimization with bold, user-first innovations, all while ensuring everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.
We care deeply about what we build and how we build it, and we’re not afraid to challenge the status quo along the way. If you get excited by amazing consumer products, geek out over data, and want to shape a product that helps people explore the world with more ease and wonder, we’d love to meet you!
Your itinerary
What your journey at Polarsteps will look like day-to-day.
You will:
Be responsible for one of our core Product domains, which is an early-stage product growing towards product-market-fit. You will be working on further building and maturing new propositions, playing a defining role for the future of our business.
Own product initiatives end-to-end, in close cooperation with product & tech, community & support, and other stakeholders. You'll have a deep understanding of our product, our operations, and our users. This means asking the right questions, measuring and analyzing data, and always striving to learn from your peers.
Prioritize those ideas that have a real impact over the stuff that doesn't matter as much, using your intuition and experience while always validating and measuring your assumptions.
Translate big and complex topics into small and testable stories, striving to make the tasks and outcomes comprehensible for everyone you're working with.
Play an active role in our agile rituals, facilitating retrospectives, reviews, demos, and daily standup meetings, and ensuring that work is properly refined before going into a planning session.
The equipment in your backpack
What we’re hoping you’ll bring with you.
✅ 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager for a technology company (at a fast-growing scale-up).
✅ Experience working on app-first consumer products.
✅ Strong in translating a vision into real, tangible features for users.
✅ A solid understanding of UX/UI and creating a great (app) experience.
✅ A passion for travel, with an innate curiosity about the world.
✅ Kudos if you have experience building AI powered products.
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 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.