Tacto is hiringProduct Design Lead

Your impact

As Product Design Lead at Tacto, you'll shape the future of procurement for over 90,000 industrial SMEs in Germany facing immense supply chain challenges. You'll lead the design of our Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) system - a central platform for all supplier processes and data. Your work will directly contribute to making procurement digital, efficient, and compliant, creating future-proof supply chains for the backbone of European industry.
In this role, you'll build and lead our design function (almost) from the ground up. You'll set the vision for design excellence, establish our design processes and culture, and be the driving force behind our user-centric approach. As we scale, you'll grow and mentor a team of talented designers, amplifying our capacity to deliver innovative solutions. Your leadership will be instrumental in positioning Tacto as the leading procurement operating system for the industrial Mittelstand in Europe.

Your tasks

• Lead and mentor the UX design team: Guide a team of talented designers in delivering world-class B2B SaaS product design, fostering their growth and ensuring high-quality output

• Contribute hands-on to design execution: Remain actively involved in design work, especially in the early stages, setting the bar for design excellence and helping to scale the design function

• Drive customer-centric design: Develop a deep understanding of our customers, their pain points, and day-to-day tasks. Gather and translate user insights into compelling user stories, prototypes, and mockups

• Collaborate across functions: Work closely with product management, engineering, and other stakeholders to define clear design specifications and ensure seamless product development

• Establish scalable design processes: Set up and optimize design frameworks and workflows that enable efficient operation as the organization grows

• Align design with business goals: Ensure the product development process is aligned with strategic objectives and relevant KPIs, directly influencing the product roadmap

• Foster a design-driven culture: Champion the value of design thinking and user-centric approaches across the organization, elevating the role of design in our product strategy

Your profile

• You have a proven track record of 3+ years of product design experience, ideally in a fast-paced B2B SaaS environment

• You've worked in or closely observed a top-tier design organisation and have a clear vision for building a high-performing design function

• You possess expert-level proficiency in design tools (e.g., Figma) and have a strong understanding of user research, prototyping, and UI/UX design principles

• You have excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead and mentor a design team effectively

• You demonstrate a strategic and analytical mindset, coupled with a deeply customer-centric approach to product design

• You're comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and can adapt quickly to changing priorities

• You have a collaborative spirit and experience working closely with cross-functional teams, especially product management and engineering

• You're fluent in English; German language skills are a plus but not required

• You have a passion for design, actively engage with the design community, and stay up-to-date with the latest design trends and technologies

ABOUT US

What we do

We are Tacto, a Munich-based start-up with the mission of creating future-proof supply chains in the industrial SME sector: digital, efficient & sustainable. With our intelligent operating system for supplier management, we strengthen the backbone of the European economy: the industrial SME sector. We help our customers to manage their suppliers, optimise purchasing processes and ensure an overall sustainable supply chain. We are convinced that, together with the hidden champions of today, we must change the industrial world digitally and sustainably - that is what we are working on at Tacto.

Why this is important

• We are lifting the backbone of the European economy, the industrial SME sector, with tens of millions of employees, into the digital age.

• We support smooth collaboration across company boundaries in supplier networks as the basis for future growth.

• We optimise the 50-70% of costs and emissions of a physical product that are attributable to suppliers in order to save resources along the supply chain.

Why you should join us

1. Timing: Our product manages hundreds of millions of euros of material to manufacture physical products from bread slicers to medical devices. The industrial middle class trusts us and we are ready to grow! Shape the future of our company and our product with us!

2. Top investors believe in us: We are backed by first-class investors such as Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Visionaries Club, UVC Partners as well as the founders of Personio, GetYourGuide, Helsing & Forto. Join us and show them that they made a good decision!

3. The team: We are an interdisciplinary and international team that is highly motivated to scale Tacto but also likes to have fun. Work with us to develop both personally and professionally!

4. Impact: We are reshaping industrial procurement, which is the biggest value driver in the industry. There is no physical product in the world in which procurement is not significantly involved. Join us in shaping the future of the most important economic sector in Germany with over 10 million employees.

What we offer

Apart from the people, our culture and mission, we offer you a job with above-average pay and a lot of personal responsibility. It is important for us to create an environment in which you can grow professionally and personally:

• Your holiday: 28 paid days of vacation per year

• Your office: We live an office culture and all our employees like to come to our beautiful office in the Sandstraße in Munich, but you can also work from home at times (our guideline is 3+ days office & 2 days home office)

• Your setup: Choose your favourite equipment and working environment. Whether Mac/Windows/Linux suits you, we want you to feel comfortable.

• Your team: We grow and have fun together at team lunches, coffee dates, chess games, hiking trips and a lot more

• Your safe space: We are convinced that a workplace where different and diverse perspectives and ideas are brought in is very valuable

• Your health: We have company health insurance and offer you an EGYM Wellpass membership

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.