Head of Design

Lawhive; London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Head of Design to enhance user experiences across its legal and AI platforms. In this pivotal role, you'll lead the design team, ensuring that both legal clients and lawyers have seamless interactions with the product. Your expertise in UX and UI design, combined with a world-class portfolio, will drive the creation of compelling experiences in a fast-paced environment. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of legal technology while working with a fully distributed team across the UK. If you're passionate about design and eager to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

33 days paid holiday a year + your birthday off

Employer pension contributions

Regular team get-togethers and socials

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Product Design with a strong portfolio.
• Experience managing designers and working in fast-paced environments.
• Expertise in UX, UI, and visual design.

Responsibilities

• Lead UX design for legal and AI products, ensuring exceptional user experiences.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and stakeholders to deliver features quickly.
• Focus on user empathy and effective communication in design.

Skills

Product Design

UX Design

UI Design

User Research

Rapid Prototyping

User Testing

Team Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Design or related field

Tools

Figma

Notion

GitHub

Linear

Discord

Slack

Job description

We're on a mission to make sure everyone has access to the law.

We combine human lawyers with artificial intelligence to radically reduce legal costs for consumers and small businesses.

We're hiring a Head of Design to supercharge the user experience of our platform for lawyers and clients, AI experiences and websites. You'll be a thought-leader on design practices for our team.

Reporting to the product director, the head of design will be responsible for hands on day to day design tasks as well as building a team of designers.

What The Job Involves

• Ownership of UX for our suite of products in the Legal and AI domain
• The ability to move seamlessly from high level strategy to in the weeds implementation
• Relentless focus and representation for all our customers, both legal clients and lawyers
• Researching, identifying and building compelling experiences in a fast paced environment
• Working daily with product, engineering and leadership and a broad array of stakeholders
• Hyper focus on effective communication
• Emphasis on writing effectively for both internal and external use
• Delivering delightful user experiences
• Assisting with hiring and product process
  
  

Our Product Culture

• Ownership - You feel a strong sense of responsibility to the products you work on and the people you work with - you want things to be the best they can be, sweat the details, and care that things get done properly
• Speed is a feature - We're building and releasing features fast, going from idea to production in hours rather than weeks
• Empathise with users - Lawyers and legal clients have unique perspectives, preferences and expectations. We build products which understand them deeply
• Strive for excellence - We're ambitious and moving fast. The whole business is pushing to be a category defining legal tech company
• Constantly learning and experimenting - We're at the cutting edge of using AI to directly improve people's lives. We take a blue-sky but pragmatic approach to how we apply new technologies
  
  

Our Product Stack

• Design: Figma
• Roadmap, feedback & documentation: Notion
• Collaboration: Github, Linear, Discord, Slack
  
  
  

Requirements

• 8+ years in Product Design
• 3+ years experience managing designers
• World class portfolio demonstrating UX, UI and visual design
• Expert level in Figma and design tooling in general
• Experience with user research and rapid prototyping
• User testing (A/B multivariant etc.)
• You're opinionated and want to help us change the legal system for the better
• You have a track record of delivering exceptional work and can demonstrate it
• You have experience in fast paced and high growth environments
• You are highly organised and can demonstrate your attention to detail
• You're motivated and ambitious, capable of learning and adapting quickly
• You've been a senior contributor in a high output product team and have experience moving fast
• You have worked in product-driven companies making decisions which impact tens of thousands of users
  
  
  

Benefits

• 33 days paid holiday a year + your birthday off
• Employer pension contributions
• We're a fully distributed team across the UK
• Regular team get-togethers and socials