Head of Product Design

The role

You will build and lead an agent-first design organization from the ground up. You will own the vision for a design system and design agent-native in-product experiences across a multi-product network.

What you will do

• Define and build an agent-first design organization
• Hire, develop, and lead a team of designers
• Establish design rituals, review forums, and quality bars
• Own the vision for the design system as an enablement layer
• Build the contribution model, documentation, and tooling for the design system
• Evolve in-product experiences to include agent-native workflows
• Define visual and interaction language for agent primitives
• Partner with product and engineering on roadmap and discovery
• Own end-to-end design strategy for a multi-product suite
• Tie design investment to business and network metrics

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product or UX design
• 4+ years leading design organizations in complex, multi-product B2B or enterprise SaaS environments
• Portfolio demonstrating ownership of a design system used by non-designers
• Experience designing AI-mediated or agentic in-product experiences
• Experience designing across multiple personas and organizations
• Strong product instincts regarding business and network metrics
• Hands-on fluency with modern AI tools
• Technical fluency with tokens, component APIs, CSS, React, and accessibility standards

Nice to have

• Experience designing data-dense, decision-support, or analytical experiences
• Experience in a high-growth, zero-to-one environment

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off
• 14 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents
• Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits
• 100% employer paid high deductible health plan
• Employer contribution to Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option
• Life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance at no cost
• 401(k) savings program
• Commuter benefits
• Free premium subscription to Calm
• Pet insurance

About the company

Altana is the network for trusted trade. Its AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy.