# Principal Product Designer

**Company:** [Everlaw](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/everlaw)
**Location:** Oakland, CA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $229k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Ai Design, Design Systems, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Product Thinking, Human-Ai Collaboration, B2B Saas Design
**Posted:** 2026-03-16

> Leads strategic vision for AI-powered litigation platform, defining design patterns for human-AI collaboration in high-stakes legal workflows. Partners with product and engineering leaders, mentors designers, and influences company-wide design standards. Requires 10+ years product design experience including 2+ years in AI.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Drive strategic vision: Lead high-impact, ambiguous initiatives that unlock new value by delivering best-in-class experience for users. Architect a long-term vision connecting user behavior, legal workflows and market dynamics.
- Define AI excellence in product: Establish industry-leading AI design patterns for high-stakes legal workflows. Define guardrails for control, confidence, transparency, privacy, and security.
- Shape AI organizational influence: Influence how AI informs discovery, prioritization, and experience development across the organization, ensuring alignment with brand and quality standards.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with senior Product and Engineering leaders to frame complex challenges, clarify tradeoffs, anticipate risks, and guide strategic decisions.
- Evolve the Craft: Influence org-wide design tooling, workflows, and standards, including the Bluebook Design System’s interaction patterns, visual language, and motion principles.
- Mentorship: Model a strong feedback culture, sponsoring growth opportunities for designers, elevating team collaboration and setting craft standards.
- Advocacy: Represent Everlaw internally and externally, and help set the standards for design in the Legal Tech industry.

## Requirements

- At least 10 years of Product Design experience with a track record of leading complex, high-impact initiatives that uncovered new value for the business.
- At least 2 years of experience shipping AI-powered experiences with strong intuition around transparency and trust.
- BA/BS degree in graphic design, design communication, human-computer interaction, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Demonstrated ability to define product vision and influence org level strategy.
- Experience designing for data intensive, B2B SaaS, enterprise or regulated domains.
- Portfolio demonstrating strength in product thinking, interaction and visual design.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively driving alignment across senior Product and Engineering leaders.
- Exceptional storytelling and communication skills.
- Demonstrated mentorship and influence across design orgs.

## Compensation

- Expected salary range: $229,000 - $290,000 (base pay 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
- Mental health resources

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