(Senior/Staff) Product Designer

Your impact

As a (Senior/Staff) Product Designer, you will play a key role in the development and design of our product. You will play a crucial role in improving the customer experience and ensuring that the product is optimally aligned with the needs of our customers. By doing so, you ensure a sustainable and better user experience and play a decisive role in the further development and improvement of our product. You will directly contribute to the development of innovative solutions for future-proof supply chains in the industrial SME sector and thus make a significant contribution to the future viability of the backbone of the European economy.

Your tasks

• Develop a deep understanding of our customers, their pains, and the key tasks involved in their day-to-day business.

• Gather valuable insights and feedback from user research and retrieve requirements in collaboration with all stakeholders

• Design and build user stories, prototypes and mockups to drive new product features from early user testing to final implementation

• Break down complex problems and define clear specifications in collaboration with our product management and our engineering team

• Shape the product implementation and delivery in an agile development environment

• Align our product development around strategic goals, relevant KPIs and have a direct impact on our product roadmap

Your profile

• You have experience (at least 2 years) in product design in a dynamic B2B SaaS environment (e.g. fast-growing startup, good tech company).

• You enjoy working in a customer-centric way with a focus on the entire user journey, from developing the customer experience to designing visually appealing user interfaces.

• You are very familiar with common design tools, especially Figma.

• You have very good communication skills in English, both written and verbal - German is a plus, but not necessary.

• You enjoy working with an interdisciplinary, diverse and international team.

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 50-80% 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.