Senior Product Designer
Your Impact
As a Senior Product Designer at Tacto, you'll transform complex supply chain challenges into intuitive user experiences that drive adoption and customer success. You'll own the end-to-end design process for key product areas, translating user research into thoughtful solutions that deliver measurable business value. Your work will directly impact how the industrial Mittelstand – the backbone of Europe's economy – manage their supply chains, making their operations more efficient and future-proof. With your expertise in B2B Software design, you'll elevate our product quality and consistency while helping evolve our design language as we scale.
Your Tasks
Customer Understanding & Advocacy: Develop deep insight into our users' workflows, pain points, and mental models through research and customer engagement. You'll become the voice of our users in product discussions, ensuring we're solving the right problems.
End-to-End Design Ownership: Lead the design process from problem definition to delivery, creating user journeys, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that transform complex supply chain processes into intuitive experiences.
Product Team Collaboration: Partner closely with product managers and engineers to define problems, prioritize solutions, and ensure seamless implementation. You'll translate concepts into clear specifications and actively participate in agile development cycles.
Design System Application: Leverage and contribute to our existing design system, ensuring consistent experiences across the product while proposing enhancements that improve usability and visual cohesion.
User Testing & Iteration: Validate design hypotheses through user testing, translating feedback into actionable improvements that continually enhance our product's usability and effectiveness.
Become AI Native: Proactively identify opportunities to leverage AI to accelerate your work, experiment with new approaches, and share successful workflows – contributing to Tacto's culture of high-velocity execution and innovation.
Your Profile
Now you may wonder what experiences and skills you need for this role. We believe that problem-solving, creativity, and drive are more important than tools that can be picked up. However, the following references will give a guideline of what experiences we think might be helpful.
You have 3+ years of product design experience in B2B SaaS environments, ideally with exposure to complex workflow applications
You combine strong UX fundamentals with polished UI execution, creating solutions that are both highly functional and visually refined
You're proficient with modern design tools, particularly Figma, and comfortable creating everything from wireframes to detailed interactions
You can effectively communicate design decisions and advocate for user needs with stakeholders across the organization
You're comfortable navigating ambiguity, breaking down complex problems, and driving toward pragmatic solutions
You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy partnering with cross-functional teams
You have excellent communication skills in English (German is a plus but not required)
This role is perfect for a designer who wants to make a meaningful impact on real-world business challenges while helping build a design-forward product culture.
Who We Are
Tacto is an AI-driven procurement platform. Our mission is to strengthen Europe’s industrial “Mittelstand” 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 industrial Mittelstand – 90,000+ small and medium-sized enterprises – forms Europe’s economic backbone, driving 25% of Germany’s GDP and providing over 30% of jobs. These hidden champions 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 competitive, the Mittelstand 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 in a beautiful office (at least 3 days/week)
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.