Lead Product Designer

We build legal drafting technology for moments that matter - when the stakes are high, the documents are complex, and speed can't come at the cost of control. Our platform helps legal teams move faster through contracts using automation, collaboration, and AI - without taking judgment away from the lawyers who own the risk. We believe technology should amplify expertise, not replace it.

Avvoka is trusted by leading law firms, banks, and global enterprises, and we've grown through product strength and word of mouth alone. With headcount and revenue increasing by over 70% year on year, we're scaling from a product-led success into a globally recognised legal-tech brand.

We're at an inflection point: evolving how the world's most sophisticated legal teams work with AI - and building a design practice where thoughtful people can do the best work of their careers. You'll lead UX at a pivotal moment - as AI reshapes how lawyers draft, and as Avvoka changes how we build product. Working hand in hand with our Head of Product and Design, you'll shape how the world's most sophisticated legal teams experience AI, and build the design practice that scales with us.

In 12 months, you'll be able to point to a unified Avvoka experience, AI features lawyers genuinely trust, a team that prototypes and ships with real pace, and ways of working that make great design repeatable. Shape the experience

• Lead end-to-end UX solutioning with Product and Engineering - from problem framing and discovery through to shipped, measured outcomes.
• Design AI-native experiences - how lawyers prompt, review, trust and correct AI output - alongside the core SaaS workflows our clients rely on every day.
• Champion one unified design for the app - bringing the richness of our features and experiences together in a single, coherent UI that keeps complex legal work simple.
• Support, and lead where needed, UX research initiatives in partnership with Customer Success and Product, so decisions are grounded in how lawyers really work.

Build modern design ops

• Prototype in code and with AI tooling, working directly alongside engineers to put ideas in front of users in days and close the gap between design intent and what ships.
• Spearhead the evolution of the Avvoka Style Guide, alongside our design system and component library.
• Build scalable design processes, rituals and standards in close partnership with our Head of Product and Design as we move through our agile transformation.

Grow the team

• Mentor and coach a young team of designers through regular feedback and shared experience, helping each of them grow and raising the bar on problem-solving, product thinking and craft.
• Collaborate across London, Prague and Manila, making design decisions visible and easy to follow across cultures and time zones, and making sure remote team members are equally involved, informed and included in discussions and decisions.
• Stay open to new ideas, and support the team in learning new skills and tools that make our work better.
• Trust designers to own their work and make decisions, without micromanaging.

The ideal candidate would have:

• Proven experience solving UX problems in B2B SaaS, plus hands-on experience designing AI-powered products and interactions.
• A portfolio of real, shipped products that shows clear impact on users and decisions backed by data.
• Strong AI proficiency, with AI tools part of how you design day to day.
• A track record - or a genuine drive - in modern design ops: rapid prototyping, coded prototypes and working directly in the codebase, collaborating closely with developers to ensure design-to-code parity.
• Confidence with tooling well beyond Figma - such as AI prototyping tools, front-end frameworks or code-based design environments.
• Technical savvy and a deep grounding in UX best practice, from research and information architecture to interaction design and usability testing, applied through a clear design thinking process from problem framing to validation.
• Hands-on experience planning, running and leading user testing, and turning the findings into design iterations that shipped.
• Experience raising an organisation's design maturity and making design part of product strategy, not just delivery.
• An outcomes-first mindset: you measure success by problems solved and impact on users, not screens shipped - and you bring UX depth, not just UI polish.
• Strong cross-functional instincts and comfort working in the overlap with Product Managers and Engineers.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication across cultures and time zones, with confidence presenting your work and collaborating with developers and stakeholders.
• Proven experience leading and coaching designers towards shared, consistent ways of working aligned with product leadership.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience in legal tech or another complex, regulated or enterprise domain.
• Ownership of a design system connected to code - tokens, components and documentation.
• A technical background, including experience with Git.
• Experience working in an agile environment, ideally having helped a product team through an agile or product-operating-model transformation.