Backed by GV.
About the role
Altana's mission is to fix globalization. We are building a network that brings together public and private sector entities, across myriad workflows from customs and transaction processing, to macro policy analysis, to supply chain resilience. Combined with the age of agents and AI native experience this isn’t something the SaaS playbook has prepared us for. As Head of Design you will shape the product vision of Altana and bring it to life.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of experience in product or UX design, including 4+ years leading design organizations in complex, multi-product B2B or enterprise SaaS environments
- A portfolio that demonstrates ownership of a design system — not just a set of screens — that was actively used by non-designers (engineers, PMs, and ideally AI tooling) to ship production experiences
- Demonstrated experience designing AI-mediated or agentic in-product experiences — including the patterns for trust, provenance, confidence, human-in-the-loop review, and graceful failure
- Experience designing across multiple personas and organizations that share workflows — collaborative SaaS, multi-sided platforms, marketplaces, or network products
- Strong product instincts: comfortable owning outcomes against business and network metrics (activation, time-to-value, adoption, k-factor, PQLs), not just design quality metrics
- Hands-on fluency with modern AI tools as part of your own design and prototyping practice — using them to generate, critique, prototype, and accelerate, not just to admire
More about this role
Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.
Altana's mission is to fix globalization. We are building a network that brings together public and private sector entities, across myriad workflows from customs and transaction processing, to macro policy analysis, to supply chain resilience. Combined with the age of agents and AI native experience this isn’t something the SaaS playbook has prepared us for. As Head of Design you will shape the product vision of Altana and bring it to life. You will create a consistent, agent-first design system for handling a wide array of information-dense, complex workflows across governments, logistics providers, importers, and their suppliers across a range of use cases.
And you need to lean into the evolving role of product design in an AI-native software development lifecycle. Traditional design organizations are not set up for this world. They scale linearly with headcount, ship Figma files to engineers as the unit of work, treat the design system as a component library, and assume the user is a single...
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