AI can be a powerful tool for good in the world – at Altana we apply AI to the world’s largest organized body of supply chain data to power a more resilient, more secure, and more sustainable model of global commerce. Our customers connect to the Altana network to build resilience for critical industries and infrastructure, automate and safeguard cross-border trade, transform insurance underwriting, protect national security, combat modern slave labor, disrupt fentanyl trafficking, and ensure that their products are sustainable.
Altana is backed by leading investors and used by the world’s most important organizations, including Lloyd’s, Maersk, multiple government agencies across the US, UK, EU, Singapore, and Australia, General Atomics, Boston Scientific, and more. We are building a global platform connecting the public and private sectors into an AI-powered network for building trusted supply chains. We operate in accordance with our values: we focus on value creation, not capture; we foster diversity and embrace difference; we embrace reality; we get things done; we amaze our clients. When you join Altana, you’ll be joining a vibrant, collaborative team working together to solve complex problems with the potential for global societal impact.
The Opportunity at Altana
As the Head of Design at Altana, you will lead the charge in shaping the future of design for a groundbreaking platform that maps the global supply chain and powers trusted commerce. In this leadership role, you will define and execute a vision for design excellence, building collaborative, intuitive workflows for the world’s largest multinational enterprises, logistics services providers, financial services providers, and government agencies; and you will help to drive a range of in-product collaboration and product-led growth initiatives that enable information and value exchange across the private and public sector.
You Will:
- Develop and drive the overall product design vision for Altana’s product suite, aligning it with our product vision and strategy, business goals, and user needs.
- Develop extensible design systems that apply across our product lines and customer segments; connect the dots between highly technical concepts, product strategy, and customer needs.
- Leverage design to drive critical business objectives and metrics, including across user and organizational collaboration, network growth and adoption, and product-led growth initiatives.
- Develop intuitive workflows that drive direct value to a range of user groups and use cases, and that enable collaboration and value exchange across industries and customer segments including multinational enterprises, logistics service providers, financial service providers, and government agencies.
- Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing design team, fostering a culture of design excellence, execution, and impact.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, data science, and go-to-market teams on product discovery, development, and delivery.
- Lead user research and testing initiatives to deeply understand customer needs, with a focus on designing and launching products that enable user collaboration and promote network effects.
- Oversee the creation of functional prototypes, visual designs, and interaction frameworks that support the analysis of complex data sets, including supply chain visualizations, knowledge graphs, dashboards, and reports.
You Have:
- 10+ years of experience in product or UX design, with at least 4+ years in a leadership role overseeing multi-user enterprise SaaS products, including those with collaborative workflows and complex network interactions and incentives.
- A portfolio that demonstrates your ability to solve complex design challenges, particularly with data-heavy, non-linear workflows, and a focus on enabling user collaboration and network effects.
- Strong experience in designing at scale and building systems that drive consistency and efficiency across products.
- Proven ability to lead and grow a design team, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to advocate for design vision and articulate its value to stakeholders.
- A deep understanding of user research, testing methodologies, and the ability to translate findings into actionable design improvements.
- Strong technical understanding, including comfort with CSS and React styling or a willingness to learn.
- Passion for working in a high-growth startup environment, solving big, gnarly problems, and delivering impact at scale.
Bonus Points For:
- A degree in HCI, design, or a related field.
- Experience designing data visualizations, dashboards, or complex analytical tools.
This role is based in Brooklyn, NY, USA with hybrid work flexibility and candidates must be within commuting distance from our Williamsburg office.
US Salary Range and Benefits
$160,000 - $250,000 USD
The salary range, to the extent specified for this role, is a good faith statement of the minimum and maximum levels of the annual based salary for the position. The base salary offered to a successful candidate will depend on a wide range of compensation factors, including, but not limited to, work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Altana's total compensation package. Altana also offers either a discretionary bonus or a variable compensation plan depending on the role. Additionally, Altana offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
- Flexible Time Off: Altana operates with a Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy that gives you agency over your own time off so you can maximize your work-life balance.
- Parental Leave: We offer industry leading Paid Parental Leave (PPL), providing 14 weeks of leave for non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents and up to 26 weeks of leave for birthing parents, all paid at 100% of your base salary.
- Health Benefits: We have a full suite of medical, vision, and dental benefits with generous employer contributions, designed to give you flexibility and choice for your individual health situation. Our high deductible health plan is 100% employer paid for employees and supplemented with an employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA). There is also a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option.
- Supplemental Benefits: Altana provides life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance coverage, all at no cost to you, so you know that you and your loved ones are covered in case of an emergency.
- 401(k) Savings: Save for and invest in your future using our Guideline 401(k) retirement savings program.
- Commuter Benefits: Save money on your commute by setting aside pre-tax funds for public transit or parking!
- Wellness: Because we value mental and emotional health, every Altana employee has access to a free premium subscription to Calm, the #1 app for meditation, sleep, and mindfulness.
- Pet Insurance: Pets are family too! Keep them healthy with Wishbone insurance and / or our Total Pet vet service and telehealth discount plan.
- Employee Assistance Program: Free access to confidential personal support.
- Dependent Care FSA: You will have access to a Dependent Care FSA, which allows you to set aside pre-tax funds for childcare expenses
The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.
- We love to collaborate, and we win as a team!
- We are committed to engineering excellence
- We value personal and professional development
- We learn from diverse backgrounds and perspectives
- We impact the world, from enabling developing countries to identifying drug traffickers
At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.
Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address. We will never ask for payment as part of the interview or onboarding process.
