Head of Product Design

Your Impact

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 However, most companies still run procurement manually with outdated tools.

As Head of Product Design, you'll define how humans and AI agents work together. Our product is shifting from screens users operate to agents users direct. That demands a fundamentally new design practice: one 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'll build the design team that makes this real.

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

• Impact: You'll tackle one of the most important UX problems in enterprise software: how buyers supervise, steer and trust autonomous AI agents making procurement decisions with real consequences. No established playbook exists for this yet. Most SaaS companies are still designing forms and dashboards - we want you to write the next chapter

• 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.

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 – we help them optimize their by far largest cost driver to stay competitive in the long-run. Trusted by hundreds of companies, Tacto transforms procurement into a strategic advantage.

Based in Munich, our team of builders, entrepreneurs and industry experts is creating technology that truly matters. We’re backed by some of the best investors in the world including Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Visionaries Club, UVC Partners as well as the founders of Personio, GetYourGuide, Helsing & Forto.

Why It Matters

The industry forms Europe’s economic backbone, driving more than a fourth of Germany’s GDP and providing over 30% of jobs. These hidden champions and global market leaders manufacture the physical world around us, from the machines that build our cities to the medical devices that save lives.

Today, a world of growing uncertainty and disruption is threatening their position. To stay stronger and competitive, the industry must unlock new efficiencies – and procurement is their largest, strategic lever to do so.

At Tacto, we deliver tangible cost savings and strategic resilience at a time when it’s needed most. Our work extends beyond technology – it’s about protecting the foundation of Europe’s economy for generations to come.

What We Offer

• An environment where we enable you to 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 & meaningful equity stake, so you are invested in our success

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 your health, or data concerning your sexual orientation.