Head of Product Design

Overview

Your Impact

Procurement is the single biggest cost position for industrial companies - often 60-70% of revenue. It is their biggest lever to drive profitability, especially in Europe. However, many companies still run procurement manually with outdated tools.

As Head of Product Design, you will define how humans and AI agents work together. Our product shifts from screens users operate to agents users direct. This demands a new design practice that creates the frameworks, patterns, and constraints within which AI agents operate, and that makes complex procurement decisions legible and trustworthy at a glance. You will build the design team that makes this real.

Responsibilities

• 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. 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. Frameworks must be precise for LLM-driven development and flexible 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 and UX research and advocate for our users within Tacto. Ensure every function solves real user problems.

Qualifications

• 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 achieve the best 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 have considered how LLMs, agents, and automation change what design means, and you have a point of view on where it is going
• Able to move between strategic leadership and hands-on craft when needed
• Fluent in English. German is a plus but not required

Why Tacto

• Impact: Tackle a key enterprise UX problem—how buyers supervise, steer and trust autonomous AI agents making procurement decisions with real consequences. We aim to write the next chapter beyond forms and dashboards.
• Ownership that compounds: Define the design function, set quality, build the team, and shape the system. Join early enough for influence and late enough that the product, customers, and stakes are real.
• A domain that rewards depth: Procurement is data-heavy, expertise-driven, and consequential. The decisions you design for have real financial impact.
• The team: 100+ capable people, backed by top investors. You’ll work closely with the Head of Product, Head of Engineering, CEO, and leadership team.
• The setup: Munich-based, hybrid. Competitive compensation plus equity.

Who We Are

Tacto builds an AI-driven procurement platform. Our mission is to strengthen Europe’s industry by future-proofing their supply chains. We streamline how companies buy, negotiate and manage procurement to optimize their largest cost driver. Based in Munich, our team includes builders, entrepreneurs, and industry experts and we are backed by Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Visionaries Club, UVC Partners, and founders of Personio, GetYourGuide, Helsing & Forto.

What We Offer

• An environment where you can have an impact and where we focus on outcomes, not time-tracking
• A vibrant in-office culture (4 days/week) in a beautiful office
• 26 + 4 vacation days per year (4 fixed “company rest days”)
• Wellpass membership and access to Jobrad for your health
• Additional voluntary pension contribution and KITA subsidy for you and your family’s future
• Competitive salary and meaningful equity stake

Tacto is an Equal Opportunities employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning health, or data concerning sexual orientation.