Lead Product Designer (m/w/d)

We’re seeking a pragmatic Lead Product Designer to help one of Europe’s 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, you’ll own major product experiences while helping establish the foundations of our design practice. You’ll 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. You’ll translate complex workflows into simple, efficient, user-centered journeys.

You’ll 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.

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 that 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.

Design Expertise

• 7+ years of professional experience in Product Design (SaaS, B2B, or workflow tools preferred), including 3+ years in a lead role
• Bachelor’s 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.

🚀 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 — you’ll walk us through it in a follow-up session.

1. Team Interviews & Design challenge (60–90 min)

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