Lead Product Designer (mwd)

Were seeking a pragmatic Lead Product Designer to help one of Europes fastest-growing legal tech companies elevate its product experience end to end. Our workflow- and AI products are already in market; now we need strong design skills excellent craft (including solid UI skills) and scalable design processes to support rapid growth.

As our Lead Designer youll own major product experiences while helping establish the foundations of our design practice. Youll stay hands-on while mentoring junior designers improving discovery processes and building the UX frameworks that make our product intuitive consistent and loved by a conservative user base (law firms).

For a designer who loves solving complex problems creating clarity from ambiguity and collaborating closely with product engineering and AI teams this is a chance to have outsized impact in one of the industries being most fundamentally transformed by AI.

Your Challenge and Opportunity in This Role

This is a rare opportunity to influence how a rapidly expanding product is researched designed and delivered. Youll translate complex workflows into simple efficient user-centered journeys.

Youll establish scalable design processes (systems principles research practices) shape the visual language of our product with clean modern UI and elevate design quality across the team. Expect significant ownership meaningful collaboration and a clear path to grow into a Design Lead role as we expand.

Tasks

Design Leadership

• Act as Lead Designer and mentor and manage junior designers.
• Provide structured feedback coaching and support to elevate team output.
• Collaborate with the Head of Product to define design principles processes and standards.
• Ensure design has a strong voice in product strategy and decision-making.

Product Discovery & UX Strategy

• Lead end-to-end design for key product areas: research flows wireframes prototypes UI.
• Turn complex legal and operational workflows into elegant intuitive experiences.
• Facilitate discovery with PMs: interviews usability tests co-creation sessions.
• Translate insights into clear hypotheses design decisions and product opportunities.
• Contribute to product vision by advocating for user needs and UX consistency.

Design Craft UI & Process Implementation

• Design clean usable visually coherent interfaces that balance clarity and efficiency.
• Build and maintain scalable design systems with reusable components and patterns.
• Implement design processes (critiques review cycles documentation) that raise the quality bar.
• Produce high-fidelity prototypes and UI designs guide PM and engineering alignment.
• Establish standards for accessibility UX quality and research rigor.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with PMs engineers and AI teams to ship high-quality features.
• Communicate design rationale clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Align design decisions with product strategy technical feasibility and user value.
• Help shape product consistency across markets and use cases.

Requirements

Design Expertise

• 7 years of professional experience in Product Design (SaaS B2B or workflow tools preferred) including 3 years in a lead role
• Bachelors degree in Design or a related field.
• Portfolio demonstrating:
• Strong UX flows and interaction design
• Simple Clean modern UI design
• End-to-end ownership of complex features
• Experience with multi-step or operational workflows and AI.
• Proficiency with Figma and modern prototyping practices.
• Good understanding of structured discovery UX research and quantitative user analytics

Leadership & Process Skills

• Experience mentoring designers and driving team quality.
• Ability to implement and refine design processes.
• Strong communicator able to present design decisions clearly.
• Enthusiastic about shaping the design culture in a fast-growing environment.

Language & Location

• Fluency in German and English is mandatory (spoken & written).
• Must be located in CET -2/2 time zone.

Benefits

Foundational Impact

Shape our design practice and influence product direction.

Ownership

Full responsibility for key product journeys from concept to launch.

Growth Environment

Work at the intersection of design legal tech workflow automation and AI.

Leadership Visibility

Direct collaboration with the Head of Product and senior leadership.

Fully Remote

Work from anywhere within CET -2/2.

Top Equipment

State-of-the-art MacBook and accessories.

Wellbeing Perks

Urban Sports Club membership.

Interview Process

Our interview process is designed to be efficient transparent and collaborative:

1. Screen Call (20min)
2. Interview with Head of Product (1h min)

Meet with the Head of Product to understand your background interests and role expectations.

1. Design Challenge

A small practical task reflecting our domain youll walk us through it in a follow-up session.

1. Team Interviews & Design challenge (6090 min)

Meet PMs engineers and designers to understand collaboration and culture fit.