Senior Lead, AI-Driven Product Design

Sidley Austin LLP; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Sidley Austin LLP is seeking a Product Design Senior Lead to drive design for complex, AI-enabled legal products. You will translate business strategy into clear product direction, lead discovery through delivery, and partner with Product Management and Engineering to shape roadmaps and requirements.

The role demands high standards for UX and UI and hands-on leadership of design teams. Ideal candidates have extensive experience designing enterprise platforms, strong communication skills, and a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience required.
• 8+ years of product design-related experience with leadership.
• Experience designing complex enterprise/legal platforms.
• Experience with AI-enabled design approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and problem framing with stakeholders to understand business processes, user needs, constraints, decision points, and opportunities and translate findings into actionable product direction.
• Develop deep understanding of complex business domains and workflows to identify root problems, challenge assumptions, and prioritize opportunities based on business and user needs.
• Model complex systems and end-to-end workflows, including roles, handoffs, business rules, exceptions, dependencies, information architecture, and decision points, to inform effective product solutions.
• Translate product strategy and ambiguous business problems into product concepts, desired outcomes, priorities, and coherent end-to-end experiences.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering to shape product priorities, roadmaps, requirements, tradeoffs, and delivery decisions within established product and business strategy.
• Lead iterative prototyping and evaluation of product concepts, partnering with Engineering to test assumptions, assess feasibility, compare alternatives, and reduce delivery risk.
• Lead product design through delivery and iteration, establishing and maintaining high standards for product thinking, interaction design, information architecture, visual design, and overall user experience.
• Define measures of product and experience success and use research, usability testing, product signals, analytics, and user feedback to evaluate outcomes and inform ongoing product decisions.
• Provide guidance and feedback to Product Design team members by setting expectations, delegating ownership.
• Advance AI-enabled design practices and communicate product direction and recommendations to stakeholders, using emerging AI, research, and prototyping capabilities to accelerate learning while building alignment around priorities, tradeoffs, and proposed investments.

Skills

Product design leadership

UX/UI design

AI-enabled design

Prototyping

Communication & stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AI prototyping tools

Job description

Sidley Austin LLP is seeking a Product Design Senior Lead to drive design for complex, AI-enabled legal products. You will translate business strategy into clear product direction, lead discovery through delivery, and partner with Product Management and Engineering to shape roadmaps and requirements.

The role demands high standards for UX and UI and hands-on leadership of design teams. Ideal candidates have extensive experience designing enterprise platforms, strong communication skills, and a