Product Design Engineer ›

Filevine EU; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (f

Competitive & Fair Pay

Maternity & paternity leave

Disability insurance

Leadership learning opportunities

Top-of-the-line company swag

Job summary

Filevine seeks a Product Design Engineer to drive the Word add-in and web UI for contract review workflows. You’ll map real user workflows, design high-fidelity prototypes, and build a cohesive design system across platforms, collaborating with founders and engineers to ship impactful UX.

You’ll own end-to-end features, prototyping, and user validation, with a fast-moving environment and emphasis on clarity, detail, and legal-tech usability.

Qualifications

• Deep product taste and strong user empathy.
• Experience designing for constrained interfaces (plugins, iOS, add-ins, extensions).
• Ability to run lightweight research: user interviews, workflow mapping, usability tests.
• Strong frontend engineering skills in React/TypeScript.
• Experience owning both design and engineering for a feature end to end.
• Ability to create polished mocks and prototypes without a dedicated designer.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with incomplete inputs.
• Bias toward action: you see something broken, you fix it.
• Bonus: experience with AI products, legal workflows, or highly technical interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Talk to customers, sit in on review sessions, and map real workflows.
• Translate ambiguous product requirements into clear flows, UI patterns, and prototypes.
• Design and implement UI surfaces across Word add-ins and the web app.
• Build high-fidelity mocks that communicate ideas quickly to founders and engineers.
• Write production-quality React and TypeScript to improve UX without waiting on engineering.
• Define and maintain the design system, visual language, and interaction patterns.
• Simplify multi-step legal workflows into intuitive, compact interfaces.
• Validate ideas directly with users and iterate quickly based on feedback.
• Identify UX gaps, propose changes, and drive them from concept to shipped feature.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend engineering

UX design

User research

Design systems

Prototyping

User interviews

AI product experience

Tools

Word add-ins

Job description

Product Design Engineer

Filevine is a Legal AI company delivering Legal Operating Intelligence for the future of legal work. Grounded in a singular system of truth, Filevine brings together data, documents, workflows, and teams into one unified platform-where modern legal work happens with clarity and consistency.

Powered by LOIS, the Legal Operating Intelligence System, Filevine connects context across every matter to transform legal operations from reactive to proactive. LOIS reads, understands, and reasons across your data to surface insight, automate complexity, and give professionals the clarity and confidence to see more, know more, and do more. Fueled by a team of exceptional collaborators and innovators, Filevine's rapid growth has earned AI awards and recognition from Deloitte and Inc. as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country.

Role Summary

At Filevine, we're building the AI layer that powers contract review and drafting across the platform. Our team owns the Word-based contract-workflow experience end to end: fast redlines, playbook automation, clause-level analysis, and the UX lawyers rely on every day for high-stakes work. We operate as a focused, senior, high-output group inside Filevine. We move quickly, ship directly into Word and the browser, and define how AI shows up across the contract lifecycle for thousands of legal teams. Design is central to everything we do. Lawyers notice every detail, and their trust depends on the quality and clarity of the experience we build.

Responsibilities

• Talk to customers, sit in on review sessions, and map real workflows
• Translate ambiguous product requirements into clear flows, UI patterns, and prototypes
• Design and implement UI surfaces across Word add-ins and the web app
• Build high-fidelity mocks that communicate ideas quickly to founders and engineers
• Write production-quality React and TypeScript to improve UX without waiting on engineering
• Define and maintain the design system, visual language, and interaction patterns
• Simplify multi-step legal workflows into intuitive, compact interfaces
• Validate ideas directly with users and iterate quickly based on feedback
• Identify UX gaps, propose changes, and drive them from concept to shipped feature

Qualifications

• Deep product taste and strong user empathy
• Experience designing for constrained interfaces (plugins, iOS, add-ins, extensions)
• Ability to run lightweight research: user interviews, workflow mapping, usability tests
• Strong frontend engineering skills in React/TypeScript
• Experience owning both design and engineering for a feature end to end
• Ability to create polished mocks and prototypes without a dedicated designer
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with incomplete inputs
• Bias toward action: you see something broken, you fix it
• Bonus: experience with AI products, legal workflows, or highly technical interfaces

What You'll Work On

• Redesigning the Word add-in pane to reduce vertical layers and improve action discoverability
• Mapping user contract-review workflows and turning them into cleaner UI flows
• Building a new design system that brings consistency to actions, drawers, modals, and toolbars
• Prototyping a small-screen version of a complex playbook editor
• Simplifying the view: progress bars, action bars, multi-document navigation
• Improving the UI/UX based on customer interviews
• Designing and implementing an updated clause-analysis UX with fewer steps and clearer decisions

Compensation Information: $120,000 - $160,000 base

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. The total compensation package for this position will be determined by each individual's location, qualifications, education, work experience, skills and performance. We believe in the importance of pay equity - the range listed is just one component of Filevine's total compensation package for employees. This position is also eligible for a paid time off policy, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

Cool Company Benefits

• A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
• Competitive & Fair Pay
• Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
• Short & long-term disability
• Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
• Top-of-the-line company swag

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