(Senior/Staff) Product Designer

The team you'll join - designing the interface between humans and AI agents in procurement

Tacto builds AI-powered software for strategic procurement teams in manufacturing. Our customers manage millions in spend, negotiate with hundreds of suppliers, and make decisions that directly affect their company's bottom line.

We're entering a phase where the product fundamentally changes shape. Instead of dashboards users click through, we're building agentic capabilities that take larger units of work off our users' shoulders - monitoring markets, preparing negotiations, flagging risks, executing workflows end-to-end. The agent handles the work. Humans make the decisions and review the results.

How that actually shows up in the app - especially for non-technical procurement professionals who are the majority of our users - is one of the hardest design challenges we face. That's where you come in.

You'll join a small design team and you'll work alongside product managers, engineers, and domain experts who understand procurement deeply. Your job is to make AI capabilities feel natural, trustworthy, and genuinely useful to people who've never thought of themselves as "tech users".

Why this role matters

The shift from "tools you operate" to "agents that work for you" is happening across the industry - but most teams are still figuring out what that means in practice. For our customers, the stakes are high: a misunderstood recommendation or a confusing workflow doesn't just frustrate users, it costs real money.

If we get this right, procurement teams will trust Tacto to handle the heavy lifting while they focus on the decisions that matter. If we get it wrong, the most powerful AI capabilities in the world won't get adopted.

Design is the difference.

Your impact

In this role, you will:

• Shape how agentic capabilities surface in the product - from 'the agent is working on this' to 'here's what it found, here's what you should decide.'
• Design flows where AI and human judgment work together, not in parallel. Think less 'copilot sidebar' and more 'the product just handles it and comes back when it needs you.'
• Create short-horizon vision work (3-6 months out) that points the team in a direction - not as polished decks, but as prototypes and tangible artifacts the team can react to and build toward.
• Raise the bar for craft and coherence across the product, especially as engineering velocity increases 10x and more features ship faster.
• Work directly in code for last-mile polish - checking out PRs, tweaking interactions, making things feel right before they ship.

Who you are

We're looking for a block-shaped designer . Not a T-shape with one deep skill and broad awareness, but someone who is genuinely strong - 80th percentile good - across multiple disciplines: visual design, interaction design, product thinking, and prototyping in code.

This matters because the role stretches. You'll think like a PM when shaping what to build. You'll think like an engineer when prototyping and polishing in code. And you'll think like a designer when making it all feel coherent, clear, and worth trusting.

You'll be a great fit if you:

• Are a senior designer with a strong portfolio of shipped product work - ideally in B2B SaaS, complex workflows, or data-heavy products.
• Have real opinions about how AI should show up in products - not just "add a chat interface", but genuinely thoughtful about trust, transparency, and when AI should get out of the way.
• Prototype in code as part of your regular workflow. Figma is still valuable, but you move past it when a real prototype communicates the idea better.
• Think in systems, not just screens. You care about how 20 features feel together, not just how one flow looks in isolation.
• Can operate with ambiguity. The problems we're solving don't have established patterns yet - you'll have to invent some of them.
• Organize your day using AI tools. You use Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or similar as core leverage in your work - for research, ideation, prototyping, creating developer handover artifacts, and more.

Bonus points if you:

• Have designed for non-technical users in complex B2B domains,
• Have experience with agentic or autonomous AI features (not just chat),
• Have strong opinions about what makes AI output trustworthy and actionable.

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.