Head of Product Design

Responsibilities

• Procurement is the single biggest cost position for industrial companies - often 60-70% of revenue. It's also their biggest lever to drive profitability - something the European industry needs more urgently than ever. However, most companies still run procurement manually with outdated tools.
• Your Tasks
• Design Leadership : Build and lead the design team of ~4 product designers. Set the bar for craft, speed, and strategic impact. Establish design as a true partner in the product trio, not a service function.
• Human-Agent Interaction Design : Define the interaction paradigm for a product where AI agents execute procurement workflows autonomously and buyers supervise, steer, and handle exceptions. You'll develop the mental models, patterns, and UI frameworks for it.
• Design Systems for Agent-Native Products : Own and evolve our design system and component architecture that coding agents can reliably work within. Your frameworks need to be precise enough for LLM-driven development and flexible enough for rapid iteration.
• UX for Complex Domains : Make deeply technical procurement concepts (should-costing, raw material indices, contract leakage) accessible and actionable for users who are not data analysts. Turn complexity into clarity.
• Customer & User Insight : Drive user understanding on a company level by implementing best practices around user & UX research and be an advocate of our users within Tacto. Make sure every function is focused on solving real user problems.
• Your Profile
• 6+ years in product design, with 2+ years leading design teams at high-growth technology companies known for design excellence
• Strong collaborator with product and engineering to get to the best possible results for customers and the business
• Deep experience designing for data-heavy, workflow-driven products. You know how to make information density an asset
• Strong systems thinking. You design in frameworks and patterns, not just screens
• Genuine fluency with AI as a design material. You've thought seriously about how LLMs, agents, and automation change what design even means, and you have a point of view on where it's going
• You can move between strategic leadership and hands-on craft when needed
• Fluent in English. German is a plus but not required
• Why Tacto
• Ownership that compounds: The design function at Tacto is yours to define. Set the quality bar, build the team, shape the system. You're joining early enough that your decisions become the standard and late enough that the product, the customers and the stakes are real.
• A domain that rewards depth : Procurement is data-heavy, expertise-driven and consequential. The decisions you're designing for have real financial impact on industrial companies. The best design work rarely happens in easy spaces.
• The team: 100+ highly capable people, founded by CDTM/Berkeley alumni and backed by Sequoia & Index. Youʼll work closely with Josias (Head of Product), Adrian (Head of Engineering), André (CEO), and the leadership team
• The setup: Munich-based, hybrid. Competitive comp + equity.
• Our Background
• Based in Munich, we are 100+ passionate builders who are in-office, with high expectations, fast growth, and a lot of fun. We are supported by >€50m from Sequoia, Index, and Europe's leading tech entrepreneurs and industry veterans.
• Why It Matters
• Manufacturing forms Europe's economic backbone, driving a fourth of Europe's GDP and providing over 30% of jobs. These hidden champions and global market leaders manufacture the physical

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