Product Design Manager
Leads a team of product designers to create intuitive AI-powered experiences for a litigation platform, driving design strategy, mentoring talent, and ensuring high craft in complex legal workflows. Requires 5+ years design experience including 2+ years managing teams.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Elevate our craft: Foster a culture of high craft, thoughtful critique, and user empathy, maintaining a high bar for product thinking, interaction and visual design.
- Drive design strategy: Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define product direction, translate ambiguous problems into clear design opportunities, and deliver cohesive experiences.
- AI experience guidance: Guide designers in ensuring AI features are transparent, trustworthy, and explainable, leveraging best in class design patterns for the dynamically evolving AI space.
- User advocacy: Guide the team to translate complex legal workflows and technical constraints into seamless user experiences, serving as the advocate for the user in high-stakes technical discussions.
- Strategic impact: Make strategic design decisions that align with and deliver impact on Everlaw's goals.
- Guide team excellence: Manage, coach, and grow a team of product designers, supporting career development through clear feedback, mentorship, and personalized growth plans.
- Set clear expectations: Create clarity around expectations, roles, and impact, helping designers understand how their work connects to the broader company vision.
- Scale the team: Participate in hiring and refining our design operations.
- Reinforce accountability: Ensure strong performance and behavioral alignment across the team.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of product design experience, with at least 2 years of experience managing teams.
- BA/BS degree in graphic design, design communication, human-computer interaction, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- A strong track record of shipping complex, high-impact products in collaboration with Product and Engineering.
- Experience designing for sophisticated users and workflows (e.g., enterprise, B2B SaaS, data-heavy, or regulated domains).
- Process-driven and can communicate complex concepts to drive the team towards a shared vision.
- Strong product thinking, interaction and visual design chops.
- Excellent communication skills to influence, align, and inspire across functions.
- Comfort working in ambiguity and helping teams navigate it with clarity and purpose.
Compensation
- Expected salary range: $192,000 - $243,000 (final offer dependent on experience and skills)
- Participation in equity program
- 401(k) with company matching
- Health, dental, vision insurance
- HSAs and FSAs
- Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
- Paid parental leave and sick leave
- 17 paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
- Generous L&D stipend
Skills
Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Product Thinking, Ai Design Patterns, User Experience Design, Enterprise Saas Design, Design Systems
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