Head of Product Design
About the Role
This is a design leadership role at a fast-growing AI-powered procurement platform for the industrial sector, where you'll shape how human buyers and AI agents collaborate on high-stakes cost decisions. You'll build and lead a small team of product designers, establishing design as a strategic partner within a product trio alongside product and engineering. The work directly impacts profitability for large industrial customers and defines a new paradigm for agent-native enterprise software.
What You'll Do
Define the interaction model for human-AI collaboration, turning a screen-first product into an agent-native experience where buyers supervise, steer, and handle exceptions.
Develop mental models, UI patterns, and frameworks that make complex procurement decisions - including should-costing, raw material indices, and contract leakage - legible and actionable for non-analyst users.
Own and evolve the design system and component architecture to support agent-driven development and rapid iteration.
Build, hire, and lead a team of ~4 product designers, setting standards for craft, speed, and strategic impact.
Implement UX research best practices company-wide, from study planning and participant recruitment through synthesis and product strategy recommendations.
Champion real user problems and drive shared user understanding across product, engineering, and the broader business.
What We're Looking For
6+ years in product design, with at least 2 years leading a design team at a high-growth technology company.
Demonstrated experience hiring, building, and running processes for a team of ~4 product designers.
Hands-on track record establishing and leading a UX research program end-to-end.
Deep experience designing data-heavy, workflow-driven enterprise or B2B products - ideally with exposure to procurement, supply chain, or adjacent complex domains.
Strong systems thinking: you design in frameworks and patterns, not just individual screens.
Genuine fluency with AI as a design material, including a clear point of view on LLMs, agents, and automation.
Comfortable moving between strategic leadership and hands-on craft as the moment demands.
Fluent in English; German is a plus but not required.
Location
On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Visa sponsorship is not available.