Product Designer

Katana builds powerful inventory and manufacturing software for 1,500+ businesses that make and sell physical products around the world. We're an AI-first SaaS company, and that shows up in how we build as much as in what we build.

We've just stepped into an exciting new phase of expansion - moving beyond small merchants into a larger market of modern, multi-channel, multi-location businesses. With that growth comes bigger opportunities, more complex problems, and the chance to shape how we scale.

Our 100+ person team across 10+ countries is building what's next - together. And that's where you come in.

Three things about this seat worth knowing before anything else.

- Real ownership. You own a product domain end to end - the customer interviews, the problem framing, the design, the thing that ships, and the number that moves afterwards. Roadmap items at Katana aren't a product manager's by default. Designers and engineers lead them too, and we'll expect you to want one.

- Speed. Sketch an idea Monday, put a working prototype in front of a real customer by Friday - built with AI on our design system, running on their own data. We work in cycles of two weeks or less, in vertical slices. Designers here have already taken roadmap work from prototype straight to a production pull request, and making that the default is part of this job.

- Visibility. You report to the CPO. You present your own work, your own experiments, and your own misses - directly, to the person making the calls. Nothing gets absorbed into team output on its way up.

This isn't a role for someone who wants a bigger version of the job they already have. It's for someone ready to own something that matters, at a company moving fast enough that your work shows up in the product within weeks, not years. If you want to shape how a product gets designed while that is still being worked out, this is a seat where you actually can.

This role is hybrid from our Tallinn office. Tuesday to Thursday are office days; Monday and Friday are up to you. It's the way our product team works - that's when the whole team is in the room, and the face-to-face time makes the work move faster and the collaboration sharper.

If you're not already in Estonia, we're happy to support relocation from within Europe for the right person.

What you can do

Mindset & Ways of Working

You'll join the Platform & Intelligence team - the team that pushes forward every AI initiative at Katana - and you'll report directly to our CPO. You'll work in a pair with another senior product designer, splitting the ground between you and debating the hard parts together.

It's a senior seat with real scope, and it sits in the most interesting place in the company right now.

Katana AI - the job

This is the main focus of the role, the team's core bet, and the reason the seat exists.

The rest of the ground

The AI work is the job. But we're a small design team and we cover for each other, so you'll also pick up work outside it when it's needed. Two places that's likely to happen - neither of these is the core of the role, but both are real, and we'd rather tell you now than surprise you later.

How design works here

Design at Katana is built, not drawn. You prototype with AI against our own design system, so what you put in front of a customer is a working thing running on their real data, not a picture of one. The feedback you get on that is sharper than any mockup review, and it's something we couldn't do before. Designers also have direct access to product and customer data - you don't queue behind a PM or an engineer to answer your own questions.

Where this is heading: design that goes from prototype straight to a production pull request, with no handoff in between. That isn't the default yet, but it has already happened here - designers on the team have shipped roadmap work this way - and the process is being built in the open. Part of this job is helping make it the norm. We won't expect you to arrive knowing our stack. We will expect you to want to work this way.

Build what you design

Do your own research

Take features from viable to lovable

Prove it worked

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