Head of Product Design

Kognity

Education changes lives. But tech hasn’t lived up to its promise for the more than 1 billion students in school around the world, at least not yet. At Kognity, we’re here to change that. We’re a 125-person EdTech scale-up powering learning in 140+ countries. Our intelligent platform replaces traditional textbooks and combines rich, interactive pedagogy with smart AI and data to help students and teachers thrive, from international schools to US high schools. Why join Kognity? * Work on problems that matter – Your work directly influences the lives of teachers and students all over the world. The scale is global, and the outcomes are tangible. * High ownership, high expectations – You are trusted to take initiative, make decisions and drive outcomes. Responsibility comes early, accountability is real, and results matter. * A fast-moving, high-performing team – You will work with smart, driven colleagues across the globe on complex problems. Standards and expectations are high, feedback is direct, and the pace is fast. * Continuous growth is the baseline – Everyone is expected and supported to learn quickly, improve constantly and raise their own bar. If you enjoy responsibility, momentum and meaningful challenge, you will thrive here. Own and elevate the end-to-end product design experience while leading a senior design function shaping how we build AI-first learning products at scale. This is a rare opportunity to operate across all levels - from influencing product and business strategy, to setting a new bar for design excellence, to working hands-on to prototype, experiment, and bring ideas to life. You’ll tackle a deeply meaningful mission while redefining how product, design, and technology come together in the age of AI. What you’ll do: * Product & Strategy Leadership - Shape and influence product vision, strategy, and cross-functional decision-making, ensuring design is a core driver in how we build products in the AI era * Cross-Functional Leadership - Partner closely with Product, Tech, and Pedagogy leadership to define solutions and priorities, ensuring strong alignment between user needs, business goals, and learning outcomes * Design Craft and Execution - Own the end-to-end design quality and user experience, focusing on the highest-impact opportunities while working hands-on to prototype, experiment, and drive meaningful change * Team Leadership - Lead, coach, and grow a team of senior product designers, building a high-performing design function that raises the bar on quality and impact * AI & Ways of Working Transformation - Build and evolve scalable design practices and AI-enabled ways of working, increasing team efficiency, speed, and product quality What we’re looking for: * An experienced product design leader with a product-first mindset - able to think beyond design craft, identify high-impact opportunities, and prioritise based on user and business value * Deep passion for AI, with a drive to actively explore, challenge, and redefine how AI transforms product development, design roles, and ways of working * An entrepreneurial approach, thriving in ambiguity, taking ownership, and driving progress with speed * A hands-on builder mindset, combining product thinking and business acumen with a drive to experiment, prototype, and lead through doing * Strong leadership capability, able to challenge, inspire, and elevate a team while fostering a collaborative, high-performance environment OUR VALUES * We take ownership * We leverage AI * We drive customer value * We are transparent * We take care of ourselves and each other BENEFITS * ITP Pension Plan with Nordnet * Yearly budget of 5,000 SEK to spend on health-related services. * 30 days of paid vacation every year * Full pay sick leave starting on day 1 * Work remotely within Sweden How we hire 1. We will review your application on August, 3rd 2. Discovery call with a Recruiter 3. Hiring manager discussion 4. Case study 5. Values discussion 6. Leadership talk 7. References Every qualified person will be evaluated regardless of age, gender, identity, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status or religion. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive team and welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities. See more about how we collect and process your personal data in our Privacy Notice.

Joko

At Joko, we help consumers shop smarter. Our mission is to revolutionize shopping, empowering people to find what they need, make informed decisions, and save money. Founded in Paris, Joko is a tech company and certified B Corp with over 105 talents across Paris, Barcelona, and New York (and beyond). More than 6 million users already save money every day at 10,000+ merchants with Joko. From cashback and automatic coupons to price alerts and carbon tracking, we keep expanding our products to make shopping smarter. We’re now building an AI-powered shopping assistant to help users find the best products by price, quality, and environmental impact. Having reached profitability in our core market, we’re now scaling globally, with a strong focus on the US. It’s still day 1, come build the future of shopping with us! This position is remote-friendly. 📱 OUR PRODUCT TEAM Led by Fabien, our VP Product, Joko's Product team groups the passionate individuals behind our users' delight! From brainstorming to development to launch, the Product team's main mission is to turn ideas into reality by working hand-in-hand with the Engineering, Design and Business teams. ✨ WHY THIS ROLE IS SPECIAL Design at Joko has been a founding obsession. From day one, we've believed that a B2C product lives or dies on the quality of its experience, and we've held an unusually high bar on craft, motion, and detail across every surface of the app. Three things make this seat rare: * You inherit a real design culture, not a blank page. Joko already has a strong design DNA, a mature design system, and a product team where craft is non-negotiable across the board. You're not starting from zero, you're inheriting a high baseline and pushing it further. * You get to define what design at Joko becomes in the AI era. The way digital products are designed is changing fast. We are actively rethinking interaction models for our AI shopping assistant, and we want a design leader who has strong opinions on what world-class B2C design looks like when the interface itself is becoming conversational, generative, and adaptive. You will shape that, not just react to it. * You will live a genuinely unique scale moment. Going from a small design team to 7 Product Designers and a User Researcher, while expanding from France to Spain and the US, is a rare kind of stretch for a design leader. You get to do it here, with a product that already has the user base, the revenue, and the ambition to justify the investment. 🎯 WHAT YOU WILL DO As Head of Product Design, you will own the vision and execution of Product Design at Joko. Reporting to Fabien (VP Product), you will be hands-on early, then build and scale a high-performing Design and Research team as we grow. Your mission is to raise the bar on craft, coherence, and user-centricity across every Joko product. * Own the design vision and quality bar: You will define what great design means at Joko, the principles behind it, and the standards every shipped surface is held to. You will be the person the team looks to when there is a hard call to make on craft. * Stay hands-on where it matters: Especially early on, you will be deep in discovery, flows, UI, and interaction design on the highest-stakes problems. You know that a Head of Product Design who has lost touch with the work has lost the plot. * Shape the design vision for Joko AI: You will partner with Product Management and Engineering on what a shopping assistant powered by AI should feel like, including new interaction models that don't yet exist as best practices. You will have a strong point of view on this and the willingness to prototype your way to the answer. * Own and evolve the design system: You will treat the design system as a living product, not a documentation site. You will decide what scales, what gets refactored, and how it stays a force multiplier as the team grows. * Build a real research practice: Today, research is opportunistic. You will build a structured User Research function, hire our first User Researcher, and make sure insights actually shape the roadmap rather than sit in a Notion page. * Build and scale the team: You will grow Product Design to 7 Designers and 1 Researcher, recruit the people you want to bet on, coach them, and build a culture where craft and ownership are the defaults. * Partner closely with Brand Design: Joko's brand and product experience need to feel like one thing. You will work hand in hand with Brand to deliver a coherent 10/10 experience end to end, from the first ad a user sees to the cash back they receive in their account. * Make AI a real design advantage: You will deploy modern AI and design tools across the team's workflow to accelerate discovery, prototyping, and iteration. You have opinions on what works, what doesn't, and where human judgment still matters most. 👀 WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR * Experience: You have 8+ years in Product Design with a strong hands-on background, and previous experience as a Lead or Head of Product Design (or equivalent senior design leadership role). You have built, scaled, and managed a design team before, and you know what good looks like at every stage. * B2C mobile-first DNA: You have shipped consumer mobile products that millions of people use. You instinctively understand the craft, the rhythm, and the stakes of designing for a B2C audience, and you don't need to be convinced that the details matter. * High-bar mindset: You hold the line on craft even when it's expensive. You'd rather ship one screen at a 10/10 than three at a 7/10, and you've built teams that share that instinct. Pixel-level rigor, motion that feels right, copy that earns its place on the screen, none of that is optional to you. * Strong sense of craft: You have a portfolio that shows end-to-end product thinking, sharp interaction design, and genuine attention to detail. You know the difference between a designer who follows patterns and one who shapes them. * Hands-on with AI and modern design tools: You have real, recent experience using AI to speed up discovery, prototyping, and delivery, with strong opinions formed from actual attempts (and actual failures). You are curious and experimental, not dogmatic. * Research instinct: You either have hands-on user research experience or have worked closely with researchers, and you know how to build a research practice that actually changes product decisions. * Design systems at scale: You have meaningful experience evolving a design system in a scaling context, and you have a clear point of view on what belongs in the system and what doesn't. * Cross-functional partnership: You have worked closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Brand or Marketing Design teams, and you know how to make those collaborations produce a cohesive experience rather than a stitched-together one. * Coaching mindset: You genuinely enjoy growing designers. You know how to develop someone's taste, push their craft, and give the kind of feedback that actually moves the needle on a portfolio. * Languages: You are fluent in English, both written and spoken. French is a plus. * Mindset: You have an entrepreneurial mindset, you like challenges, you welcome feedback and you love constantly learning and getting better. 💎 OUR PERKS (Some of the benefits listed below are available to full-time positions only) At Joko, we believe that flexibility and trust are essential. Our work environment reflects this through: * Flexible remote : If you live in Paris, you can choose to work from our office or from home with no constraints. If you live elsewhere, we can provide access to a coworking space and a coworking budget. * Work from anywhere : Want to spend a month in Italy while working? You can work from most countries in the world for up to 3 months per year. On top of that, we offer plenty of perks: * 💸 Top-market compensation * 📈 Equity for everyone with the chance to own a piece of what you build * 🤖 Half-day each week dedicated to leveling up with AI by exploring new tools, iterating hard, and sharpening your skills * 🌴 Yearly offsite in amazing locations and budget for team-building events & monthly in-person gatherings * 💪 Contribution to your ClassPass subscription * 🍼 8-week leave paid 100% for the second parent * …and much more, check the full list here! 🤝 OUR HIRING PROCESS 1. Intro call: Quick screening with the Hiring Manager or the Talent team. 2. Step 1 – Team interview (45 min): Conversation with two Joko team members (could include the Hiring Manager, people from the team you’d join, or colleagues from other teams). 3. Step 2 – Role-specific assessments * For non-engineering roles: A take-home case study followed by a 45-min interview. We assess both your output and how you think in real time. The exercise will be relevant to your role (e.g. analysis, strategy, or process design). * For engineering roles: A 90-min live technical interview on CoderPad covering code understanding, review, system design, and product thinking (with AI serving as a collaboration tool). 4. Step 3 – Leadership interview (45 min): Conversation with a SteerCo member and a Founder. 5. References: Up to 3 calls with former colleagues or managers. ☕ You may also be invited for coffee with team members to get a feel for our culture.

Tacto

YOUR IMPACT Procurement is the single biggest cost position for industrial companies - often 60-70% of revenue. It's also their biggest lever to drive profitability - something the European industry needs more urgently than ever. However, most companies still run procurement manually with outdated tools. As Head of Product Design, you'll define how humans and AI agents work together. Our product is shifting from screens users operate to agents users direct. That demands a fundamentally new design practice: one that creates the frameworks, patterns, and constraints within which AI agents operate, and that makes complex procurement decisions legible and trustworthy at a glance. You'll build the design team that makes this real. YOUR TASKS * Design Leadership: Build and lead the design team of ~4 product designers. Set the bar for craft, speed, and strategic impact. Establish design as a true partner in the product trio, not a service function. * Human-Agent Interaction Design: Define the interaction paradigm for a product where AI agents execute procurement workflows autonomously and buyers supervise, steer, and handle exceptions. You'll develop the mental models, patterns, and UI frameworks for it. * Design Systems for Agent-Native Products: Own and evolve our design system and component architecture that coding agents can reliably work within. Your frameworks need to be precise enough for LLM-driven development and flexible enough for rapid iteration. * UX for Complex Domains: Make deeply technical procurement concepts (should-costing, raw material indices, contract leakage) accessible and actionable for users who are not data analysts. Turn complexity into clarity. * Customer & User Insight: Drive user understanding on a company level by implementing best practices around user & UX research and be an advocate of our users within Tacto. Make sure every function is focused on solving real user problems. YOUR PROFILE * 6+ years in product design, with 2+ years leading design teams at high-growth technology companies known for design excellence * Strong collaborator with product and engineering to get to the best possible results for customers and the business * Deep experience designing for data-heavy, workflow-driven products. You know how to make information density an asset * Strong systems thinking. You design in frameworks and patterns, not just screens * Genuine fluency with AI as a design material. You've thought seriously about how LLMs, agents, and automation change what design even means, and you have a point of view on where it's going * You can move between strategic leadership and hands-on craft when needed * Fluent in English. German is a plus but not required WHY TACTO * Impact: You'll tackle one of the most important UX problems in enterprise software: how buyers supervise, steer and trust autonomous AI agents making procurement decisions with real consequences. No established playbook exists for this yet. Most SaaS companies are still designing forms and dashboards - we want you to write the next chapter * Ownership that compounds: The design function at Tacto is yours to define. Set the quality bar, build the team, shape the system. You're joining early enough that your decisions become the standard and late enough that the product, the customers and the stakes are real. * A domain that rewards depth: Procurement is data-heavy, expertise-driven and consequential. The decisions you're designing for have real financial impact on industrial companies. The best design work rarely happens in easy spaces. * The team: 100+ highly capable people, founded by CDTM/Berkeley alumni and backed by Sequoia & Index. Youʼll work closely with Josias (Head of Product), Adrian (Head of Engineering), André (CEO), and the leadership team * The setup: Munich-based, hybrid. Competitive comp + equity. OUR BACKGROUND Tacto is building the intelligence layer that connects AI to the physical world of manufacturing, starting with procurement. AI is transforming every industry, but it stops at the factory gate. The knowledge that holds manufacturing together - part costs, suppliers, materials - is scattered across systems and people. Over 50% of a product's cost originates from suppliers, making procurement the single largest cost lever in manufacturing and the missing connection between the digital and the physical world. Yet it still runs on Excel and legacy systems. We're changing that with our Procurement Intelligence Platform, trusted by hundreds of companies running billions of Euros of material. Based in Munich, we are 100+ passionate builders who are in-office, with high expectations, fast growth, and a lot of fun. We are supported by >€50m from Sequoia, Index, and Europe's leading tech entrepreneurs and industry veterans. WHY IT MATTERS Manufacturing forms Europe's economic backbone, driving a fourth of Europe's GDP and providing over 30% of jobs. These hidden champions and global market leaders manufacture the physical world around us, from the machines that build our cities to the medical devices that save lives. But the world is changing. The US dominates the digital world of bits. China is scaling the world of atoms, manufacturing at unprecedented speed and scale. Geopolitics are more uncertain than ever. Europe's strength lies in its deep industrial knowledge through generations of engineering. Manufacturing worldwide runs on European machines and software. But that heritage is only an advantage if we leverage it in the age of AI. Tacto builds the AI that connects Atoms and Bits, empowering our Industrial Base to Stay Stronger and building a lighthouse for European tech. WHAT WE OFFER The people at Tacto are passionate about building the organization, growing themselves, and our product while having fun and being real. We have high expectations, great talent density, and a culture where your ambition, performance, and agency are what count - not where you come from or how big your ego is. You'll grow at the forefront of AI, have real ownership and impact, and be surrounded by the best people in their field who challenge you and make you better every day. That is demanding and rewarding, but that's where we thrive. Besides that you have: * Money: Competitive salary & equity in the company with real upside, so you are invested in our success * Workplace: A vibrant in-office culture (> 4 days/week) in a beautiful office in central Munich * Development: A development budget and regular exposure to exceptional people, e.g., Lunch & Learns, peer mentoring, external speakers * Time off: 26 + 4 vacation days per year (4 fixed “company rest days”) as well as regular off-sites and team events * Health: Wellpass membership, of course, a fruit basket (!), and access to Jobrad, for your health * Family & Social Security: Voluntary pension contribution, voluntary KITA subsidy for your children Tacto is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity. 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