Founding Product Designer

Urban; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Moritz is hiring a Founding Product Designer in San Francisco to own the product experience end-to-end. You’ll be the first design hire, defining how an AI-native legal platform looks and feels, across product, design system, and user flows.

You'll collaborate with engineers and the founders to ship high-quality interfaces, prototype rapidly, and shape design strategy as the team scales. This is a zero-to-one role that prioritizes craft, speed, and thoughtful UX in a high-trust,

Qualifications

• 3+ years designing digital products with strong craft.
• Experience with complex workflows, dashboards, or B2B tools.
• Mastery of visual and interaction design, attention to 1px details.
• Ability to prototype with code and collaborate with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design for Moritz's AI-powered platform.
• Translate dense legal workflows into clear interaction patterns.
• Build and maintain Moritz's design system and component library.
• Prototype quickly in Figma or code with real user feedback.
• Partner with engineers to ship pixel-perfect interfaces.

Skills

Product design

UI design

UX design

Figma

Design systems

Frontend collaboration

Communication

Tools

Next.js

TypeScript

Job description

Founding Product Designer at Moritz (W26)

Global AI-native law firm handling legal work with same-day turnaround

San Francisco, CA, US Full-time Will sponsor Any (new grads ok)

Moritz is a global AI-native law firm that will handles legal work with same day turnaround.

Our lawyers have closed $ 3bn in deals with an average turnaround of 4-hours. No other law firm offers this kind of speed for complex deals.

We're backed by YC, 20VC and the founders of Dropbox, Gusto, Instacart, Reddit, Superhuman, Producthunt, HuggingFace and 15 other unicorn founders.

About the role

As our Founding Product Designer, you'll own Moritz's product experience end to end. You'll be our first design hire, with the mandate to define how AI-native legal work looks and feels; on a platform that automates 80% of legal work and manages communication between lawyers and clients.

This is a rare zero-to-one role for someone with exceptional craft: turning complex, high-stakes legal workflows into interfaces that feel simple, fast, and inevitable. You'll set the design bar for the entire company; the product, the design system, and the culture around them — working alongside talented software and AI engineers, and directly with the founders.

What You'll Do

Product Experience & Craft

• Own end-to-end product design for Moritz's AI-powered platform — from information architecture and user journeys to high-fidelity UI
• Translate dense legal workflows into clear, elegant interaction patterns
• Sweat the details — spacing, typography, hierarchy, motion — the polish that makes software feel premium
• Define our AI-native interaction patterns: streaming, inline editing, agent handoffs, human-in-the-loop review

Design Systems & Prototyping

• Build and own Moritz's design system and component library from the ground up
• Prototype fast — in Figma or in code — and iterate on real user feedback
• Partner with engineers to ship pixel-perfect, accessible, performant interfaces
• Master the latest AI design and development tools to multiply your output

Product Strategy

• Work directly with the founders to shape product direction and UX strategy
• Lead customer discovery with lawyers and clients to find the pain worth solving
• Turn ambiguity into shipped product: prototype, test, refine, deliver
• As we grow, hire and lead the design team — this role is built to become Head of Design

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years designing digital products people love, with a portfolio that proves world-class craft
• Experience designing complex workflows, dashboards, or B2B/productivity tools
• Deep visual and interaction design skill — you notice the 1px things others don't
• Strong product intuition: you understand what makes software feel simple and fast
• Comfort working close to code — you can prototype in it and collaborate fluently with engineers
• Excellent communication — you can articulate and defend design decisions with founders, engineers, and customers
• Mastery of Figma and modern design tooling

Bonus Points

• You've been a founding or early designer at a high-growth startup
• Frontend proficiency (we use Next.js and TypeScript) — you can ship your own designs to production
• Deep familiarity with AI-native UI patterns (streaming, copilots, agentic workflows)
• Background in legaltech, fintech, or other high-trust B2B domains
• Accessibility and performance optimization experience

Why Moritz

• First designer: total ownership of the product experience, design system, and design culture
• Work directly with both founders from day one
• Backed by Y Combinator (W26), with a $9M seed from YC, 20VC, and Urban Innovation Fund
• Real traction: enterprise clients already trust us with $3B+ in contract value
• We\'re building the defining AI-native firm in a $1T+ industry
• High trust, high autonomy, high bar
• Accelerated growth path into Head of Design or product leadership

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