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# Data Scientist Growth Analytics at Polarsteps

- **Company:** Polarsteps
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-04-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polarsteps/b31dfe4d-d4f1-45fa-8c86-61697142ffe9/application

**Skills:** Python, R, SQL, Statistical analysis, Growth modeling, Impact forecasting, Product analytics tools, Reporting tools, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Appsflyer, Adjust, Looker, Meta Base

> Join the Growth & Marketing team to shape growth strategy by analyzing data, building models, and measuring the impact of product initiatives. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive user growth and present insights to senior stakeholders.

## Job description

## YOUR EXPEDITION AT POLARSTEPS - DATA SCIENCE

Over the past 10 years, Polarsteps has grown massively through word-of-mouth, thanks to our product and tech department building a top-quality user experience for all our travelers.

As our data scientist you will sit within the Growth & Marketing department of the organization. You will help shape Polarsteps growth strategy by analyzing our constraints, developing models, and measuring the impact of product, growth and business initiatives. Partnering with the Head of Growth, you’ll turn data into strategies that guide prioritization of new initiatives and accelerate insights for our product teams. You’ll collaborate with our cross-functional teams of product, marketing and designers to scale insights and drive efficient growth.

With 20M+ users and ratings of 4.8 and 4.7 on the app stores and features in multiple Google and Apple showcases, we've got an impressive past. But we’re even more excited for the future, and you’ll play a crucial role in the growth and direction of Polarsteps as we grow to 100M+ users around the globe.

## YOUR ITINERARY

What your journey at Polarsteps will look like day-to-day.

- Develop data-driven strategies to drive the growth of Polarsteps users in our key marktes
- Apply statistical methods to deep-dive and breaking down changes to find/understand causal relationships to help inform business decisions.
- Build, monitor and sustain scalable dashboards to track our growth, engagement and monetization metrics.
- Communicate to the organization as a whole about growth metrics to help them understand what’s working and what isn’t and help them understand how to drive up MAUs
- Contribute to quarterly and yearly planning through growth modellingen and impact forecasting.
- Collaborate closely with our product managers, growth and marketing department to understand growth drivers and guide strategic decisions.
- Present insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders, influencing the course of our business
- Support our senior management team with reporting to external parties (current and prospective investors)

## THE EQUIPMENT IN YOUR BACKPACK

What we’re hoping you’ll bring with you.

✅ 5+ years analyzing insights from data using tools such as Python/R and SQL.

✅ Hands-on experience supporting B2C Mobile app organizations with their growth strategy

✅ Intellectually curious, creative, and diligent - you enjoy thinking about the business as much as about the data

✅ Worked with product analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Amplitude, Appsflyer, Adjust, Looker, Meta Base etc.).

✅ Have a background in Economics/Business, Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or other relevant field.

✅ Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present analyses and insights in clear, impactful formats.

## 1ST CLASS POLARSTEPS EXTRAS

Some cool things to make the journey extra sweet.

- Salary range: Between EUR 67.000 - 79.000 (medior level) and EUR 83.000 - 98.000 (senior level) gross per year incl 8% holiday allowance (based on 40 hours/week). Where you land in the range depends on your experience and skills, assessed during the interview process.
- Equity: You'll be able to participate in our Polarsteps SAR Plan.
- A yearly free flight or train ride to a random location! Give our Teleporter a spin here. https://www.polarsteps.com/teleporter
- 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 office 2 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. https://careers.polarsteps.com/how-we-hire

## About Polarsteps

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Polarsteps is a travel app that combines trip planning, real-time tracking, and reliving into a single platform for adventurous travelers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed; bootstrapped origins with subsequent investment likely)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Niek (original founder), Job Harmsen, Koen Droste, Maximiliano Neustadt

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Travel technology (consumer travel app)
- **Target Customers**: B2C – individual travelers looking for a single app to plan, track, and share trips
- **Mission**: “We want to lead a global movement towards more adventurous travel” – inspiring people to explore the world and capture their stories. [polarsteps.com/about](https://www.polarsteps.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Polarsteps App (iOS & Android)**: A mobile app that enables users to plan trips, track journeys via GPS, share their location with friends/family, and later relive the adventure with a beautiful interactive map. Freemium model.
- **Travel Books**: Physical photo books that automatically compile trip highlights, offered as a premium/companion product.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: 20+ million users (as of 2025–2026). [polarsteps.com](https://www.polarsteps.com/)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not disclosed in available sources
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Team size grown to 90+ (from a small founding team). [careers.polarsteps.com](https://careers.polarsteps.com/)
  - 20+ nationalities represented in the workforce
  - Actively hiring for 15+ roles across engineering, product, growth, and operations (June 2026). [careers.polarsteps.com/vacancies](https://careers.polarsteps.com/vacancies)
  - New CEO Clare Jones leading the next growth phase. [careers.polarsteps.com/team](https://careers.polarsteps.com/team)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique Origin Story**: Born on a catamaran crossing the Atlantic – product–market fit discovered organically through solo tracking.
- **All-in-One Experience**: Combines planning, tracking, and reliving in one app, reducing the need for multiple tools.
- **Community & Content**: User-generated journeys feed into a global map of real adventures, creating a network effect.
- **Employee Perk as Moat**: The “Teleporter” – once a year the whole team is flown/trained to a random destination (chosen from past user trips), reinforcing product empathy and company culture.

## Strategic Focus
- Drive user growth by expanding the social and follower features (dedicated Product Manager for Growth – Social & Followers listed).
- Deepen planning capabilities to become the default starting point for trips.
- Scale engineering and data teams to improve personalization and experimentation.
- Maintain a hybrid work model (office in Amsterdam) while enabling up to 8 weeks of remote work abroad per year.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “explorer at heart,” with a flat, collaborative vibe and frequent social events (after-work borrels, boat trips).
- **Work Model**: Hybrid – office in downtown Amsterdam (Vijzelgracht 53A); flexibility to work abroad up to 8 weeks/year.
- **Perks**:
  - 30 vacation days + 2 Culture Days per year
  - Teleporter (annual free flight/train to a surprise destination)
  - MacBook, noise-canceling headphones, standing desk
  - Free travel books (your own trips turned into physical books)
- **Team**: ~90 employees across 20+ nationalities; high retention (first hires still with the company). [careers.polarsteps.com/team](https://careers.polarsteps.com/team)

## Sources
1. [polarsteps.com](https://www.polarsteps.com/)
2. [polarsteps.com/about](https://www.polarsteps.com/about)
3. [careers.polarsteps.com](https://careers.polarsteps.com/)
4. [careers.polarsteps.com/vacancies](https://careers.polarsteps.com/vacancies)
5. [careers.polarsteps.com/team](https://careers.polarsteps.com/team)

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