Senior Product Designer

2024-04-05
UK
Lawhive
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 Senior Product Designer to help to design our apps, AI experiences and websites, and be a thought-leader on design practices in our product team. This role is the first design hire in the company, with growth opportunities to Head of Design.Reporting to the CTO, the product designer will be an individual contributor responsible for critical design decisions across our entire business and providing design and process leadership to the rest of the product team.What the job involves Designing products and features in our platform using modern practices alongside a highly technical team Creating delightful user experiences and being user and usability focused in decision making Create wireframes, prototypes, and mockups to visualize and communicate design concepts Conduct user research, usability testing and gather requirements to inform design decisions Iterating on our websites, branding and marketing assets across the business Owning the design process end-to-end in the product team: UX research, design thinking, product reviews, building design systems Maintaining a tight feedback loop with customers to ensure product usability and understanding Ensuring our products evolve quickly with the best design, feedback and iteration practices Our Product Culture Ship daily - 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 improves people’s lives. We take a blue-sky but pragmatic approach to how we apply new technologies. Our Design Stack Design: Figma Collaboration: Notion, Linear, Github, Vercel Preview Requirements You’re opinionated AF 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 have a deep understanding of modern tools (e.g. Figma), front-end development technologies and their impact on design You’ve been a senior contributor in fast moving product teams You designed consumer products and websites and made design decisions affecting tens of thousands of users You’ve run design processes in product teams alongside product managers and engineers You have an exceptional eye for design, interaction and usability 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 About the companyLawhive is an online platform for consumers and small businesses to get legal help for a fraction of the cost of a local law firm.Equal access to the law is one of the biggest and most pressing unsolved problems in society today. We’re passionate about levelling the playing field and believe access to the law should be a basic utility in society. Our platform combines regulated human lawyers with our generative AI co-pilot Lawrence, to deliver instant legal help at a much lower cost than ever before possible.