Altana
Head of Product Design
Brooklyn, NY · Exec
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
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About the role
- Altana is the network for trusted trade.
- Combined with the age of agents and AI native experience this isn't something the SaaS playbook has prepared us for.
- Product managers can prototype in working code.
Responsibilities
- Build an Agent-First Design Organization
- Define what an agent-first design team looks like in practice - how it's structured, what it ships, what it measures, and how it scales with leverage rather than headcount.
- Hire, develop, and lead a team of designers who treat AI as a teammate and a medium: who prototype in code with AI assistance, who design with agents rather than around them, and who see the design system as the team's highest-leverage product.
- Make the Design System the Product
- Build the contribution model, the documentation, and the tooling (including AI-native authoring and review tools) that make the design system the fastest, easiest, and highest-quality path to ship - not a checklist people work around.
- Measure the design system by leverage: how many net-new experiences shipped without direct designer involvement still meet the bar
- Design Agent-Native In-Product Experiences
- Measure the design system by leverage: how many net-new experiences shipped without direct designer involvement still meet the bar; how fast new patterns propagate; how much rework the system prevents.
- Partner with product and engineering to make agentic capability discoverable inside the existing product, not hidden behind a separate "AI" tab - so that the right capability shows up at the right step of the workflow, for the right persona.
- Treat every agent surface as a first-class design problem: what it looks like when it's working, what it looks like when it's wrong, and how a user moves between agent-mediated and direct-manipulation modes without losing their place.
Requirements
- You know how to keep an experience coherent without flattening the differences between the people using it.
- You can still prototype.
- You can have a real conversation with engineering about how the system is implemented, not just how it looks.
Benefits
- As Head of Design you will shape the product vision of Altana and bring it to life.
Company info
- Customers increasingly interact with the product through an agent that reasons, summarizes, and acts on their behalf.
- We are looking for a Head of
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