- Location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Last Published
- Nov. 29, 2024
- Sector
- Business Applications
- Functions
- Product
- Design
Like the idea of a Hybrid work model? Excited to work in an International team? Want to work in a rapidly scaling company? YOUR JOURNEY STARTS HERE...
ABOUT WETRAVEL
Travel gives people new experiences and brings them together, sometimes in life-changing ways. That’s especially the case for group travel and multi-day travel where the participants get to really immerse themselves. Passionate travel organizers make this magic happen and WeTravel is here to support those travel organizers. We help them publish their trip offerings, take bookings, process payments, pay suppliers/vendors, and digitize their operations. This helps travel organizers get more bookings, save time, and save money.
Department Product Employment Type Full Time Location Amsterdam Workplace type Hybrid Compensation €60,000 - €80,000 / year Reporting To Emily Brown
As part of our diverse, talented design team, you’ll enjoy a unique opportunity to impact the entire platform. Working within a design studio model, we are responsible for all our personas' experience. From developing new features to optimizing existing flows, your work will be visible company-wide and play a key role in shaping our product's future.
Your designs will directly support our customers—group and multi-day travel organizers—by delivering impactful, intuitive features that help them grow their businesses. You’ll create the right solutions and ensure they are seamlessly integrated and adopted by our users.
If you’re passionate about creating innovative technology that empowers small travel businesses to thrive, and you’re looking for a fun, inclusive work environment where you can make a meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you. Let’s build great things together!
What You’ll Be Doing:
This position presents the opportunity to work in a business-critical role in a rapidly growing company. You will also uphold our four core values:
“Culture add” is so much better than "culture fit" and welcome applications from all groups, irrespective of your, age, disability, gender reassignment, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, veteran status and sexual orientation.
OUR WORK ETHIC
At WeTravel, we are building a High Performance Culture where we reward top performers, expect a work environment at WeTravel that is fast-paced, demanding and deeply committed to putting our customers first. Our global footprint spans 30 countries, requiring your flexibility, agility, and dedication to our team.
Joining WeTravel means stepping into a dynamic, demanding environment where your contribution makes a real difference. It’s a place for those ready to dive into their work, push beyond comfort zones, and achieve collective goals through hard work and perseverance.
Here, ambition isn’t just welcomed; it’s essential for those fully committed to our mission of leading the market in the fintech SaaS space.
Headquartered in San Francisco, with our secondary hub in Amsterdam, our team is driven to continuously improve our technology; ensuring that our clients always have the best possible solutions at their fingertips. Apply Now
ABOUT WETRAVEL
Travel gives people new experiences and brings them together, sometimes in life-changing ways. That’s especially the case for group travel and multi-day travel where the participants get to really immerse themselves. Passionate travel organizers make this magic happen and WeTravel is here to support those travel organizers. We help them publish their trip offerings, take bookings, process payments, pay suppliers/vendors, and digitize their operations. This helps travel organizers get more bookings, save time, and save money.
Department Product Employment Type Full Time Location Amsterdam Workplace type Hybrid Compensation €60,000 - €80,000 / year Reporting To Emily Brown
About the role
As a Senior Product Designer at WeTravel, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future experience within our platform. You will lead design projects from ideation to execution, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create exceptional user experiences that are simple, intuitive, and visually stunning while ensuring that our solutions are user-centered and aligned with our business goals.As part of our diverse, talented design team, you’ll enjoy a unique opportunity to impact the entire platform. Working within a design studio model, we are responsible for all our personas' experience. From developing new features to optimizing existing flows, your work will be visible company-wide and play a key role in shaping our product's future.
Your designs will directly support our customers—group and multi-day travel organizers—by delivering impactful, intuitive features that help them grow their businesses. You’ll create the right solutions and ensure they are seamlessly integrated and adopted by our users.
If you’re passionate about creating innovative technology that empowers small travel businesses to thrive, and you’re looking for a fun, inclusive work environment where you can make a meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you. Let’s build great things together!
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Lead Design Projects: Own the entire design process—from sketching initial ideas to delivering pixel-perfect designs ready for launch.
- Put Users First: Dive into user research, develop personas, and create user journeys that make our platform the go-to operating system for organizers.
- Prototype & Test: Sketch, wireframe, prototype—repeat! Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to bring your designs to life.
- Team Up & Collaborate: Work closely with engineering, product, and marketing teams to define, build, and ship exciting new features.
- Shape the Design Vision: Help evolve our design vision, systems, and brand guidelines. Participate in daily team rituals like design critiques, story creation, and stand-ups.
- Be the User's Advocate: Champion design thinking and best UX/UI practices, ensuring that everything we build makes organizing amazing trips effortless for our users.
- Data is Your Bestie: Leverage data, user feedback, and A/B testing to refine and perfect your designs.
- Solve Problems Like a Pro: Tackle ambiguous challenges with the right balance of effort, always keeping both design and engineering considerations in mind.
What Makes You a Perfect Fit:
- Experienced in designing killer digital products.
- A portfolio packed with beautiful, user-friendly designs and seamless UX.
- You're a Figma wizard and know your way around responsive design and design systems.
- Research savvy: You’ve done your share of user research and can turn insights into design gold.
- A team player at heart. You collaborate easily with designers, engineers, and the PM’s—and you’re great at explaining your design decisions.
- You’ve got a growth mindset—you love feedback and thrive in a fast-paced, juggling-multiple-projects world.
- Our multinational team must have fluency in English and clear communication with non-native speakers.
- You’ve got a bias for action, a knack for simplifying things, and a positive attitude to top it all off.
- An eye for detail: Sweat the small stuff...from pixels to kerning.
- A sense of humor—we’re all about sharing laughs and gifs to keep things fun.
- A solid understanding of software engineering workflows (because we love designers who get the tech side).
- Experience in vertical SaaS, finance or travel industries.
- A flair for branding design.
Benefits
- Attractive compensation
- Unlimited Paid Time Off!
- 2 week cross-functional onboarding training program for all new colleagues.
- Annual team off site.
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Tuesday team lunches & after work social events.
- Amazing new offices in the heart of Amsterdam - rooftop garden, right next to the Metro stop in ROKIN
- Hybrid working model - 3 days in the office and Work From Home for the remainder
- As a travel-related company, we have fantastic team retreats, two of our founders love surfing, so it's normally beside a great beach - it was Colombia for 2022
- The latest tech you need to be successful.
This position presents the opportunity to work in a business-critical role in a rapidly growing company. You will also uphold our four core values:
- Be the solution - take ownership, drive collaboration
- Be resourceful - strive for new wins every day
- Be honest - default to transparency
- Be respectful - treat others like you want to be treated
“Culture add” is so much better than "culture fit" and welcome applications from all groups, irrespective of your, age, disability, gender reassignment, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, veteran status and sexual orientation.
OUR WORK ETHIC
At WeTravel, we are building a High Performance Culture where we reward top performers, expect a work environment at WeTravel that is fast-paced, demanding and deeply committed to putting our customers first. Our global footprint spans 30 countries, requiring your flexibility, agility, and dedication to our team.
Joining WeTravel means stepping into a dynamic, demanding environment where your contribution makes a real difference. It’s a place for those ready to dive into their work, push beyond comfort zones, and achieve collective goals through hard work and perseverance.
Here, ambition isn’t just welcomed; it’s essential for those fully committed to our mission of leading the market in the fintech SaaS space.
About WeTravel
Founded in 2016, WeTravel provides a complete booking and payments platform for multi-day and group travel companies of all sizes. We give your clients an easy booking experience while also helping you manage financials, payments to partners or your bank, registration information, and client communication all in one place.Headquartered in San Francisco, with our secondary hub in Amsterdam, our team is driven to continuously improve our technology; ensuring that our clients always have the best possible solutions at their fingertips. Apply Now