Senior Product Designer
LawVu is the AI-native operating system for in-house legal - the foundational layer that powers the entire legal function. Our intelligent platform connects legal intake, matters, contracts, spend, and reporting in one connected workspace, enabling legal teams to work smarter, move faster, and deliver measurable business value.
Trusted by leading organizations including Discord, Employment Hero, Etsy, and many more, LawVu is helping legal teams transform from reactive service providers into strategic business partners.
Founded in New Zealand, LawVu is a fast-growing global software company with customers and employees across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Backed by leading venture capital firms, including Insight Partners and Airtree Ventures, we're creating a new category of LegalOS software purpose-built for modern in-house legal teams.
About the role
As a Senior Product Designer at LawVu ,you’lllead the customer experience for LawVu Draft and the journeys that connect it with the wider LawVu platform.
Draft joined LawVu through acquisition and is an important part of our vision for reimagining how legal work gets done.You’llshape its next evolution: creating an intuitive, distinctly LawVu experience and connecting the jobs customers do across drafting, reviewing, contract lifecycle management and the widerLegalOS.
Within your Product Trio, Design leads customer experience and desirability .You’llwork alongside Product, Legal and Engineering from discovery through delivery and iteration, bringing deep customer understanding, rapidexplorationandstrong designjudgement to ensure we buildexperiencescustomers value and love to use.
What you’ll do
Lead the customer experience
- Build a deep understanding of how legal teams work and use it to shape a clear experience vision for Draft, balancing near-term improvementswithreimagining how legal work could work in the future.
- Design seamless end-to-end journeys across Draft and LawVu ’swiderLegalOS, simplifying complex legal workflows into intuitive, coherent experiences.
Drive discovery and design
- Lead design discovery through customer insight, journey mapping, prototyping, usability testing,dataand experimentation.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to frame problems, explore alternatives and make evidence-based trade-offs.
- Use prototypes to make ideas tangible early,validateassumptions withcustomersand reduce the time between an idea and meaningful learning.
- Stay engaged afterlaunch, using customer feedback,behaviouraldataand product analytics to continuously improve the experience.
Apply modern design craft
- Use AI-assisted design and prototyping tools to increase the speed of exploration,prototypingand validation, while developing a strong point of view on how AI can improve drafting and legal work itself.
- Set a high bar for interaction design, information architecture, visualqualityand accessibility.
- Use and evolve LawVu ’sdesign system, collaborating closely with designers across our global team,to create consistent cohesive experiences across theLegalOS.
What success looks like…
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Draft becomes a cohesive part of the LawVu experience , with a clear experience vision and consistently high standard of product design.
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Customers can move seamlessly between drafting, reviewing, contract management and matter management , with fewer disconnected steps and hand-offs.
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Complex legal work feels simpler , helping customers complete important jobs more confidently and efficiently.
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Your work delivers measurable impact , with relevant customer and product measures defined, tracked and improving.
- You raise the quality of design across LawVu and contribute meaningfully toshared design practices,team OKRs, company goals and our values.
Skills and Experience
- 5+ years’ experience in Product Design, ideally inLegalTechorcomplex B2B SaaS.
- A strong portfoliodemonstratingend-to-end product thi