Senior / Staff Product Designer

<h3>About the Role</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're a well-funded, Series A AI-powered procurement intelligence platform serving the industrial sector — helping companies modernise how they manage spend, suppliers, and sourcing through a suite of AI agents. Our product is used daily by non-technical procurement professionals who need AI to feel <strong>natural, trustworthy, and genuinely useful</strong> — not like a black box bolted onto a legacy workflow.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're hiring a <strong>Senior or Staff Product Designer</strong> to join a small, high-craft design team embedded closely with product managers, engineers, and domain experts. This is a pivotal role: you'll define how agentic AI capabilities surface in the product — from the moment an agent starts working, through to how findings and recommendations are presented and acted upon. Great design here doesn't just improve usability; it directly determines whether powerful AI features get adopted and whether customers realise real cost savings.</p><h3>What You'll Do</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define interaction patterns for agentic AI capabilities — covering status states ("the agent is working"), result surfaces ("here's what it found"), and human-in-the-loop collaboration moments.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design workflows that position AI and human judgment as collaborators, not competitors, with a clear focus on trust and transparency.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Produce short-horizon vision work (3–6 month horizon) as runnable prototypes and tangible artefacts that align and guide the broader team.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Raise overall product craft and coherence as engineering velocity and feature output scale.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work directly in code for last-mile polish — check out PRs and fine-tune interactions before features ship.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with product managers, engineers, and procurement domain experts to translate complex, data-heavy workflows into clear, usable experiences.</p></li></ul><h3>What We're Looking For</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Required:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Senior-level product design experience with a strong portfolio of <em>shipped</em> work — ideally in B2B SaaS, complex workflows, or data-heavy products.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A "block-shaped" designer: solid across visual design, interaction design, product thinking, <em>and</em> prototyping in code — not a single-specialty generalist.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Demonstrated ability to prototype beyond Figma — you build runnable prototypes that communicate intent, behaviour, and edge cases.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfortable checking out PRs and making direct code-level interaction tweaks before shipping (this is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Thoughtful, well-formed opinions on how AI should appear in products — trust, transparency, appropriate automation, and avoiding over-automation.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfortable operating in ambiguity and inventing new patterns for genuinely novel problems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Active daily user of AI tools (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) as part of your research, ideation, and prototyping workflow.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Nice to Have:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience designing for non-technical users in complex B2B domains (e.g. procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, finance).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Prior work on agentic or autonomous AI features in a shipped product.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with industrial or procurement software contexts.</p></li></ul><h3>Location &amp; Work Arrangement</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">This role is based <strong>on-site in Munich, Germany</strong>. Candidates must be able to work from the Munich office. <strong>Visa sponsorship is not available</strong> for this position.</p><h3>Why This Role</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work at the frontier of agentic AI product design — inventing patterns that don't yet exist.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Join a well-resourced, Series A company backed by top-tier European and global investors, with strong customer traction in the industrial sector.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Small design team = high ownership, high visibility, and direct impact on product direction.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate with a team that includes alumni from leading strategy, consulting, and enterprise software organisations.</p></li></ul><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com">Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>