Senior Product Manager, Polarsteps
App for planning, tracking and documenting your travel
Open for applications
App for planning, tracking and documenting your travel
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
On a mission to spend their days building something that helps people as they explore this world — showing them the way and capturing the stories they create as they go.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience as a Product Manager for a technology company (preferably at a fast-growing scale-up)
- Experience working on app-first consumer products
- Experience with conversion optimization, reducing friction for users
- Strong in data analysis, where you enjoy diving into the details
- A solid understanding of UX/UI and creating a great (app) experience
- A passion for travel, with an innate curiosity about the world
What the job involves
- We work with cross-disciplinary Product teams, where you will play a key role in building and maturing our products with an outcome in mind
- Your experience with consumer products, coupled with a love for data, will enable you to excel in this business-critical role
- You will be the go-to person for one of our core product pillars, responsible for balancing the optimization of the product with larger innovations, all while ensuring stable and reliable operations
- Be responsible for one of our core Product domains, which is a semi-mature product with a proven product-market fit. You will be working on further building and maturing the product, where every improvement has a significant impact on our users and 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
Our take
Polarsteps was founded by avid travellers who set out to automate well documented travel experiences for its first users. Now, it aims to be the go-to for travel planning, tracking and blogging. It allows its users to enjoy the travel experience while taking care of the documentation.
Travel innovation is not new, however, Polarsteps sets itself apart by optimising their product to work independent of mobile reception when needed, catering for long and remote travel experiences.
It is this promised convenience that secured their impressive customer growth. They have used this to build larger teams and a more robust product offering to set them up as a leading travel app.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2019
$3.4m
SERIES A
Aug 2017
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $5m
Company benefits
- A yearly free flight to a random location! Give our Teleporter a spin here
- A shiny new MacBook to work your magic on
- Hybrid working. Split your time between the office and your home as you see fit
- An extensive home office set-up — everything from noise-canceling headphones to a standing desk
- 28 days of vacation (for adventures or sitting on the couch, it's up to you)
- The option to switch up your zoom background by working from another country for up to 5 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
Company values
- We are dedicated to our craft
- We are explorers at heart
- We are human
- Enjoy the ride
- Be good, Do good
Company HQ
De Weteringschans, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Koen Droste
(Co-founder)Previously co-founded Companyspot.nl in 2009 and Upcoming in 2013. They have previous experience in publishing, sales and product management.
Niek Bokkers
(Creative Director)Previously worked as a concept developer and owned and managed a creative lab for 15 years.
Job Harmsen
(Head of Design)Ran a website design outfit and moved on to join Concept M as a Designer.
Maximiliano Neustadt
(CEO ad interim / CTO)They have had extensive experience as a Software Developer and in leading software teams.
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