Senior UX Designer

Job Description

Join Our Team at Litera: Where Legal Technology Meets Excellence
Litera has been at the forefront of legal technology innovation for over 25 years, crafting legal software to amplify impact and maximize efficiency. Developed by the best legal minds in the industry, our comprehensive suite of integrated legal tools is both powerful and user-friendly and simplifies the way modern firms manage core legal workflows, secure collaboration, and organize firm knowledge and experience. Every day, we help more than 2.3 million legal professionals focus on their craft. Litera: Less busy work, more of your life’s work.

Overview: As a UX Designer at Litera, you will be part of a dynamic team that is passionate about driving innovation in the legal technology space. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge tools and collaborate with industry experts to deliver solutions that make a real difference in the legal profession.

The Opportunity:
We are looking for a versatile Senior UX Designer to join the Kira product team (part of Litera Transact family) to iterate on our AI-Powered M&A Due Diligence product for lawyers. You will work through the full cycle design process, including user research to uncover and document user needs, scoping out design requirements, ideation, prototyping, creating design flows, and testing and iterating quickly.

All our UX Designers work as members of cross-functional “pods” where they collaborate closely with a product manager & developers to fully own their product roadmap, metrics, and add value for our customers. Designers also collaborate outside the pods with our Customer Value and Sales teams to facilitate workshops, lead co-creation activities, and contribute to our wider strategy. You’ll join a growing team of professionals with different backgrounds that are passionate about solving complex problems.

A Day in the Life:

You’ll be leading the end-to-end design process on your pod, from discovery to delivery.

Discovery
• Strive to understand users through customer feedback, research findings, & analytics
• Partner with product managers & developers to provide input on our roadmap by advocating for user needs
• Plan and facilitate workshops for the pod using design thinking & sprint principles
• Collaboratively scope and phase each feature into smaller slices of value and evaluate feasibility from a design perspective
• Explore and experiment with various design options within constraints
• Collaborate with UX researchers to observe feedback sessions and do usability testing for your own designs

Delivery
• Create compelling flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and UI mockups while keeping in mind the overall architecture and experience of the system.
• Ensure designs are well documented for developers, answer questions around edge cases, and tweak things as needed during a release cycle
• Ensure your pod is delivering thoughtful and delightful user experiences
• Involved in post-launch testing to continue iterating on enhancements

Overall
• Contribute to our Design System for the overall success and coherence of the product
• Be an advocate and educator for good design practices within Kira
• Stay up to date with useful design tools and industry best practices
• Share your work with the pod and the broader Kira & Litera team

Role progression:

Within 1 month, you will:
• Complete our designer onboarding process
• Meet your team and learn the nuts and bolts of our business, and where we’re going
• Familiarize yourself with our product and attend training sessions presented by your peers to start collaborating on features with your pod

Within 3 months, you will:
• Work closely with your team on day-to-day design tasks
• Unblock teammates and ensure progress is being made smoothly
• Communicate and present solutions to stakeholders
• Get involved with building regular processes and participate in ideation & feedback sessions with the team
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure smooth implementation

Within 6-12 months, you will:
• Feel ownership and accountability over your sections of our product, and have a good understanding of user’s pain points and the market
• Feel comfortable leading discovery for new ideas and help with strategic planning
• Potentially have the chance to work on other products

Qualifications:
• 4 + years' experience as a Product Designer in a SaaS product role, B2B or B2C
• Agile Scrum experience
• A strong understanding of the end-to-end design process from user research, to wireframing and prototyping
• Fluency with Tools like Figma or Sketch & Invision
• Design System (MUI React) experience
• Strong UX Design Discovery and interviewing skills (Design Thinking)

Customer-Centric: You have empathy for users and show willingness to understand their point of view through research and usability testing
Data-Driven: You’ve interacted directly with users of your products and can learn quickly from feedback or from your mistakes

Comfortable with Ambiguity: You can adapt to new situations quickly and help surface problems & solutions through a strategic lens. We are shaping the future; you may encounter unknown behaviors or use cases.

Self Starter: You take initiative, own your projects and help define problems

Excellent Communicator: You can clearly articulate your ideas + think behind your decisions to stakeholders (verbal, written, or in visual formats)

Champions Collaboration: You are a team player who enjoys collaborating with others.

Passion: for learning and a mindset of continuous improvement
Bonus: Technical knowledge of APIs, integrations, and a working understanding of front-end development would be a huge asset

Why Join Litera?
• The company culture: We emphasize helping each other grow, doing the right thing always, and being part of a journey to amplify impact, creating an exciting and fulfilling work environment
• Commitment to Employees: Our people commitment is based on what employees love most about being part of the team, focusing on tools that matter to the difference-makers in the legal world and amplifying their impact
• Global, Dynamic, and Diverse Team: Our is a global company with ambitious goals and unlimited opportunities, offering a dynamic and diverse work environment where employees can grow, listen, empathize, and problem-solve together
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Experience peace of mind with our health insurance, retirement savings plans, generous paid time off, and a supportive work-life balance. We invest in your well-being and future, ensuring a rewarding career journey.
• Career Growth and Development: We provide career paths and opportunities for professional development, allowing employees to progress through various technical and leadership roles

Note: As we continually reevaluate pay transparency rules and requirements, in order to ensure we are compliant, we believe a direct approach to be most accurate. If you are a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio or Washington resident and this role is physically available in your state or classified as remote, you may be eligible to receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request. Please send an email identifying the title of the role you are interested in and the state you reside in to salary@litera.com .

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, or Washington residents is $100,000 to $125,000. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, Litera offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

Litera is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.