# Head of Product Design **Company:** [Altana](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/altana) **Location:** Brooklyn, NY **Role:** Product Design **Experience:** 8+ years **Skills:** AI, Design Systems, Product Design, Ux/Ui, Figma, Prototyping, User Research, Interaction Design **Posted:** 2026-06-01 > Altana is seeking a Head of Product Design to lead and build an agent-first design organization from the ground up. This role involves shaping product vision, creating a consistent design system for complex workflows, and redefining in-product experiences with AI-native solutions. ## Job Description ## What You'll Do ### 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. * Establish the rituals, review forums, and quality bars that keep a small team of designers accountable for the experience of a multi-product, multi-persona network — without becoming the bottleneck that slows it down. * Champion a culture of "show, don't tell": working prototypes, agent-generated variants, and live demos beat decks and static comps every time. ### Make the Design System the Product * Own the vision for Altana's design system as the enablement layer for a new class of creators — product managers, engineers, and AI agents — who increasingly build user-facing experiences directly. * Define the system as more than a component library: a structured set of patterns, tokens, content rules, interaction grammars, and accessibility guarantees that are semantic, composable, and legible to AI — so that an LLM generating a workflow, a PM prototyping a new view, or an engineer wiring up a feature all converge on the same coherent experience. * 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; how fast new patterns propagate; how much rework the system prevents. ### Design Agent-Native In-Product Experiences * Evolve Altana's in-product experience from a set of human-only workflows to genuinely agent-native workflows — where agents act, explain, ask, and hand off to humans, and humans confirm, correct, escalate, and delegate back. * Define the visual and interaction language for the new primitives this requires: agent reasoning surfaces, provenance and citation patterns, confidence and uncertainty signals, interruption and consent moments, multi-step task previews, human-in-the-loop review queues, and the affordances that let a user trust — or appropriately distrust — what an agent has done on their behalf. * 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. ### Design Across a Multi-Product, Multi-Persona Network * Own the end-to-end design strategy for a product suite that spans enterprise supply chain mapping, customs and entry management, PLM/ERP integration, government and regulatory tooling, logistics provider workflows, and financial services use cases — all converging on a single network experience. * Design for personas that share objects but not mental models: a corporate trade compliance officer, a licensed customs broker, a CBP officer, a logistics dispatcher, a supplier in a developing market, and an AI agent acting for any of them — collaborating around the same Product Passport, the same shipment, the same risk signal. * Build a design system that is opinionated about coherence but flexible about persona — one navigation, one visual language, one set of patterns — modulated by role, surface, and use case rather than forked into product-specific silos. * Make collaboration a first-class design surface: shared workspaces, handoffs across organizations, comments and approvals that cross enterprise/broker/government boundaries, and the trust and access patterns that make those interactions safe. ### Lead as a Product Thinker, Not Just a Design Thinker * Operate as a peer to Product, Engineering, and Data Science leadership: shape strategy, make trade-offs, own outcomes against business and network metrics — not just craft and aesthetics. * Tie design investment directly to the metrics that matter for a network business: activation, time-to-value, workflow completion, multi-party adoption, network k-factor, and product-led expansion across personas and organizations. * Lead customer research and discovery as a strategic capability — not a service function — and use what you learn to influence what gets built, not just how it looks. * Translate... ## Similar roles - [Director of Product Design](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/22e07f6c-d654-404e-927b-b7f133954617) - Limble - Remote - $190k – $230k/yr - [Head of Design](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/c0f2a6d7-980f-4c03-bf90-63b1bbd085ee) - Vanta - Remote - $365k – $513k/yr - [Director, Product Design](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/291ad524-f965-4152-91f7-74c22f2458d2) - Fetch - Remote - [Sr. Director, Design & User Experience](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/8ccbeb44-d0b5-4803-b15c-69bab57743ea) - PointClickCare - Remote - $256k – $284k/yr - [Director, Product Design](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/5f209aa2-65e1-40fe-b76b-297499b62936) - Dropbox - Remote - $209k – $319k/yr **Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/762f3e83-af5a-45a4-ac10-7e8e13d11dd5 **Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/762f3e83-af5a-45a4-ac10-7e8e13d11dd5