Senior Product Designer (UI Specialist) at DraftWise

About the Role

As a Senior Product Designer (UI Specialist) on our team, you will be primarily responsible for the design and intuitive flow of our core products. Lawyers are a demanding user base, so our products must be engaging, simple and easy to learn in minutes. You will be tasked with overhauling the current design to a new standard as well as engaging with the Product, Customer Success and Engineering teams working with ongoing feature designs as we consider new capabilities we can deliver to lawyers. You'll design, build and iterate on prototypes, deliver polished screens to our engineering team and validate your designs are having a positive impact on actual usage.

We are quickly growing the number of lawyers on the platform and need DraftWise to be compelling, fun and valuable - but we can only do this with your help!

We are a growing team and expect all members to flexibly help wherever the company needs them the most - if you have an idea for what DraftWise needs, we want to empower you to pursue that project. You will have broad ownership over your initiatives, the ability to shape our culture as we grow and flexibility over your schedule. We will encourage you to take the lead on bringing our technology to the hands of the lawyer.

What we value

• Strong communication skills in an open environment.

• Creating an environment of trust through well-intentioned feedback.

• Skills to work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision.

• Interest in working in a dynamic environment with dynamic objectives.

About You

• You have a design portfolio that shows just how good your UI design skills are

• Exceptional communication skills with an emphasis on building trust

• Passion for seeing customers succeed with the product you helped build

• 5+ years of design experience, working on production B2B applications with real users

• Experience collaborating with product, engineering and founders and the ability to synthesize multiple perspectives into a path forward

• Proficiency with Figma (or similar design/prototyping tools)

• Familiarity with CSS utility frameworks such as Tailwind and knowledge of front-end frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js (Nice to have)

Responsibilities

• Design intuitive and visually compelling interfaces that elevate the user experience across digital platforms while maintaining brand consistency

• Transform complex requirements into elegant, accessible designs that anticipate user needs and behaviours

• Create comprehensive UI components including wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and design systems that seamlessly scale across different devices and screen sizes

• Collaborate with engineers and product to translate designs into functional products while advocating for design quality

• Stay current with emerging UI trends, technologies, and best practices, applying relevant innovations to improve product interfaces

• Conduct design reviews and usability evaluations to continually refine interface solutions based on user feedback and performance metrics

• Contribute to establishing and evolving design guidelines that ensure consistency while allowing for creative problem-solving

• Work with the marketing team to ensure that we have appropriate product representation assets to use

What we offer

• All-remote work style, work anywhere. Ideally within UTC+4 to UTC-5

• Equity plan

• Compensation: £80,000 - £90,000 DOE

• New laptop and a work-from-home stipend for necessary accessories

• Generous PTO / sick leave

• Opportunity to lead our company as we disrupt the legal world

About the interview

• Intro Chat: We want to share with you what we are building and to learn more about your interests and experience. We are searching for enthusiasm, ownership and autonomy. We'd love to see an example of a project you've worked on. (30 mins)

• Whiteboard Workshop: We'll share a user need, some background context and we'll ask you to walk us through your plan and approach to solving the problem (45 mins)

• Take-Home Project: We'll share a set of features that we have already developed and ask that you spend a small amount of time producing a design (<2 hours)

We would also love for you to meet the team! We have excellent people working here and we want to help you feel welcome before making your decision.

About DraftWise

DraftWise is at the forefront of AI in the legal industry, building a secure knowledge platform that helps lawyers at elite law firms draft, negotiate and review contracts faster, and with an edge over their competitors. Our core product unlocks for the first time the years of historic legal contracts that firms have negotiated for their clients. We use the latest in data management, machine learning and language analytics to help lawyers and legal professionals write better, safer contracts. Some reasons to join DraftWise:

• Our core offering has achieved product market fit proven by our partnerships with the industries leading Vault 10, Magic Circle and AMLAW 100 firms.

• Our founding team is composed of former Palantir and Google engineers along with an experienced lawyer from a top global law firm.

• We are backed by Y-Combinator and well-known VC funds

• We are a fully remote company, though offer the option to co-work in our major cities in the US and Europe.

• We are working with the latest generative AI technology and developing practical applications of it for the legal industry

• We are solving problems that matter to lawyers, and our users love us for it!