Product Designer

MISSION STATEMENT

We're seeking a talented UX Product Designer to create intuitive, powerful experiences for our eLaw platform. You'll design workflows that help legal professionals navigate complex data challenges—from managing millions of documents to uncovering critical evidence in high-stakes litigation.

This role requires balancing sophisticated functionality with elegant simplicity. Our users are attorneys, paralegals, and litigation support specialists who need to work efficiently under pressure. Your designs will directly impact their ability to find needles in haystacks, meet tight deadlines, and deliver excellent outcomes for their clients.

You'll collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and customers to understand problems deeply, prototype solutions quickly, and iterate based on real user feedback.

Responsibilities

User Research \& Discovery (25%)

Conduct user interviews, contextual inquiries, and usability testing with attorneys, paralegals, and litigation support professionals

Shadow customers to understand eDiscovery workflows, pain points, and decision-making processes

Analyze user behavior data, support tickets, and feedback to identify usability issues and opportunities

Create user personas, journey maps, and workflow diagrams that communicate user needs to the team

Stay current on legal technology trends, competitor products, and industry best practices

Design \& Prototyping (50%)

Design end-to-end user experiences for complex features including document review, search, analytics, and data visualization

Create wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes that communicate design concepts and facilitate feedback

Design information architectures that make vast amounts of data accessible and actionable

Develop UI components and patterns that scale across the product while maintaining consistency

Balance feature richness with usability, ensuring power users can work efficiently while new users aren't overwhelmed

Design for accessibility, ensuring our product is usable by people with diverse abilities

Create responsive designs that work across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices

Collaboration \& Delivery (25%)

Partner with product managers to define problems, explore solutions, and prioritize design work

Work closely with engineers throughout the development process, providing specs, assets, and guidance

Participate in agile ceremonies including sprint planning, design reviews, and retrospectives

Present design concepts to stakeholders and incorporate feedback into iterations

Contribute to and maintain our design system, ensuring consistency across the product

Advocate for users in product discussions and push back on solutions that compromise usability

Support product launches with onboarding flows, help documentation, and training materials

Qualifications

3-5\+ years of experience designing complex SaaS products

Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design work, including research, wireframes, visual design, and shipped products

Proficiency with design and prototyping tools: Figma, Figma Make, Claude Code, or similar

Understanding of user research methodologies and ability to translate insights into design decisions

Strong visual design skills with attention to typography, color, layout, and interaction details

Ability to design for data-heavy applications with complex workflows and information hierarchies

Preferred experience in Legal Tech or Document Management, but not required

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Experience working in agile development environments

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Nextpoint is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to foster a diverse workplace, actively seeking to recruit, retain and promote people of color and LGBTQ\+ candidates. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. If you are interested in our company we encourage you to apply even if you do not see an applicable job description, as we are growing fast and are always on the lookout for high performing, curious, entrepreneurial-minded individuals to join our team!