Head of Product Design

🏒 Altanaai · πŸ“ Brooklyn, NY πŸ’° $240,000 - $240,000 / yr
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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.

The Opportunity at Altana

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 human clicking through a single product. That model is already breaking. Product managers can prototype in working code. Engineers can generate full interfaces from a prompt. Customers increasingly interact with the product through an agent that reasons, summarizes, and acts on their behalf. The center of gravity for how experiences get made is shifting β€” and the design organizations that thrive next will not be the ones that draw the most screens. Our head of design is expected to help us create this new world and evolve traditional SDLC’s to tighten the feedback loop, and produce more output faster together in a native AI loop.

We are looking for a Head of Design to build Altana's design organization for that world from the ground up: an agent-first design team whose primary deliverable is not a static mockup but a living design system β€” a structured, semantic, machine-readable language of patterns, components, primitives, and interaction grammars that PMs, engineers, and AI agents can compose against to ship coherent, on-brand, high-quality experiences without a designer in the critical path of every screen. You will redefine what it means to design an in

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Altanaai Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluates mastery over complex global supply chain networks, AI/ML graph database comprehension, and mission-driven urgency.

πŸ“‹ Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Viewing supply chain management purely as logistics rather than a complex graph-theoretic data problem
  • 2. Lack of alignment with the mission of securing global trade and geopolitical supply networks
  • 3. Over-hyping AI buzzwords without understanding the underlying data trust and provenance challenges
✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I leverage graph AI and network intelligence to help organizations map, secure, and future-proof their global supply chains.

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