# Product Design Manager

**Company:** [Everlaw](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/everlaw)
**Location:** Oakland, CA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $192k – $243k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Product Thinking, Ai Design Patterns, User Experience Design, Enterprise Saas Design, Design Systems
**Posted:** 2026-03-16

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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