Head of Product Design
Job Description
About the Role
A leadership role responsible for shaping the design of an AI powered procurement product. You will lead a small design team within a fast growing product organization and help ensure the product remains user friendly while integrating human oversight with AI agents.
What You'll Do
Define how humans and AI agents collaborate across the product to enable an agent native experience.
Shape the interaction paradigm where agents execute workflows and buyers supervise and handle exceptions.
Develop mental models, UI patterns, and frameworks to make complex procurement decisions legible and trustworthy.
Own and evolve the design system and component architecture to support agent driven development and rapid iteration.
Translate procurement concepts into accessible UX for non analysts users.
Build, hire, and lead a design team of around four product designers and set standards for craft, speed, and impact.
Position design as a strategic partner within the product trio alongside product and engineering.
Promote UX research practices and advocate for real user problems across the company.
What We're Looking For
6+ years in product design with 2+ years leading a design team at high growth tech companies known for design excellence.
Extensive experience designing data heavy, workflow driven products and applying systems and reusable interaction patterns.
Fluency designing AI native experiences involving LLMs, agents, automation, and trustworthy human oversight.
Ability to operate as both a strategic design leader and a hands-on product designer.
Strong English communication skills.
Startup experience or equivalent project complexity with demonstrated performance in demanding environments.
Location
Primary location: Munich, Bavaria, Germany. On site