Head of Product Design

ABOUT THE ROLE This is a design leadership role at a fast-growing AI-powered procurement platform for industrial buyers. You will define how humans and AI agents collaborate across the product, shaping interaction paradigms that make complex, high-stakes cost decisions legible and trustworthy. The role sits at the heart of the product organization and directly influences profitability for large industrial customers. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Define the interaction paradigm where AI agents execute procurement workflows and buyers supervise, steer, and handle exceptions. - Create mental models, UI patterns, and frameworks that make dense procurement data accessible and actionable for non-analyst users. - Own and evolve the design system and component architecture to support agent-driven development and rapid iteration. - Translate complex procurement concepts (such as should-costing, raw material indices, and contract leakage) into clear, actionable UX. - Build, hire, and lead a team of approximately four product designers, setting standards for craft, speed, and strategic impact. - Establish design as a strategic partner in the product trio alongside product management and engineering. - Drive company-wide user understanding by implementing UX research best practices and championing real user problems. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 6+ years in product design, with 2+ years leading a design team at a high-growth technology company. - Deep experience designing data-heavy, workflow-driven products and treating information density as an asset rather than a problem. - Strong systems thinking with a track record of designing in frameworks, patterns, and reusable components rather than one-off screens. - Genuine fluency with AI as a design material, including a clear point of view on LLMs, agents, automation, and human oversight. - Experience hiring and growing a design team, and establishing design-team processes and UX research programs. - Startup or high-complexity project experience with demonstrated performance in demanding, fast-moving environments. - Ability to move fluidly between strategic leadership and hands-on craft as the situation requires. - Strong collaborator with product and engineering counterparts. - Fluent in English; German proficiency is a plus. LOCATION On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.