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Senior Director, Product Design

Oakland, California, United States

Everlaw is looking for a Head of Product Design to lead, mentor, and scale our Product Design team. This is a critical leadership position where you'll be responsible for hiring and developing a high-performing design leadership team, elevating our design practices, and ensuring your teams deliver elegant, intuitive, and effective solutions that drive significant value for our users and the business. If you are a visionary, people-first leader with extensive design and management experience, we invite you to join us in fostering an environment where our designers can be leaders who do their best work and make a lasting impact.

About Everlaw

Everlaw's mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth. Our platform helps legal professionals uncover information and insight, supporting law firms, corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations in their investigation and litigation work. The Product Design team is at the forefront of this mission, shaping the future of our industry with a commitment to creating powerful, user-friendly, and innovative solutions. We take pride in our dedication to not only designing an exceptional product but also in building a strong culture of user-centered design across the company.

At Everlaw, we are driven by passion, integrity, curiosity, and a desire to make a difference. We offer a vibrant, open company culture and support our team’s growth through an annual learning and development stipend, regular career check-ins, and a commitment to fostering each team member's professional journey. We believe in building a diverse and inclusive team, and we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed.

This is a full-time position based in our Oakland, California office with a hybrid work schedule: in the office Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with the option to work from home Tuesday and Friday.

The Opportunity

As the Head of Product Design, you will be a key leader in the product organization, driving our long-term design strategy and building a world-class team. Your leadership will directly influence the user experience of our product and the growth of our people. 

In your role, you will:

  • Build & Grow a High-Performing Team: Provide hands-on coaching, mentorship, and career pathing to your Product Design management team to grow their impact and careers. Elevate design excellence by championing best-in-class design practices and fostering a culture of continuous learning. Scale the team through strategic hiring, effective onboarding, and strong organizational design.
  • Own a Design Vision: Define and articulate the product design strategy and vision across our core product, aligning it with company-wide objectives and translating it into a clear, actionable plan. You will reinforce this through feedback and collaboration with your team.
  • Demonstrate Strategic Leadership: You will make strategic decisions to drive impact in alignment with Everlaw's goals. You'll apply your problem-solving skills and judgment to navigate complex strategic challenges to ensure Everlaw is well positioned for long term success.
  • Set Clear Expectations: You'll set clear goals and define roles and responsibilities to ensure your team knows what success looks like and how to achieve it.
  • Reinforce Accountability: Ensure strong performance and behavioral alignment across your team. You will be responsible for creating rhythms of accountability, rewarding strong performance, and addressing under-performance and behavioral gaps to maintain a healthy team culture.
  • Exhibit People Leadership: You will serve as a model for how to work with, lead, and motivate others. You'll collaborate with senior leaders across Engineering, Product, and GTM teams, and you'll use your influence and communication skills to manage change and champion our values.

About you

  • You have at least 10 years of experience in a product-focused design role.
  • You have at least 5 years of experience managing and mentoring teams, including people leaders, with a track record of scaling and developing high-performing teams.
  • You have direct experience driving strategic business outcomes through design for enterprise SaaS products. 
  • You possess exceptional strategic thinking and execution skills, capable of translating high-level vision into tactical plans while maintaining a focus on detail.
  • You are a seasoned leader with a strong ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders, from individual contributors to executive leadership.
  • You have a deep understanding of user-centered design processes. 
  • You are a proactive problem-solver with the ability to navigate complex cross functional challenges and drive clarity in ambiguous situations.

Work authorization

  • You are authorized to work in the United States without restrictions. Please note that at this time, Everlaw is not sponsoring F-1 OPT or STEM OPT visas.

Total Rewards

  • The expected salary range for this role is between $233,000 - $317,000. The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate’s experience and skills. The base pay range is subject to change in the future.
  • Participation in our equity program
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • HSAs and FSAs for various expenses
  • Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
  • Paid parental leave and sick leave
  • 17 paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
  • Access to mental health and wellness resources like membership to Modern Health
  • A generous L&D stipend for your personal growth
  • Find out more about our Benefits and Perks

Perks

  • A beautiful office in Uptown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants and walking distance to Lake Merritt
  • Flexible work-from-home days on Tuesdays and Fridays
  • Monthly home internet reimbursement
  • Ability to select your hardware of choice (Mac or PC) and customize your desk setup
  • A wide variety of snacks and beverages in the office
  • Company-wide out-of-the-box events and fun activities with your team
  • Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice
  • Learning and career development opportunities (and a generous budget!)
  • #LI-KP1
  • #LI-Hybrid

Getting started

  • We’re committed to your success and want you to feel like a part of our team! You’ll go through our standard onboarding process, which will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals. 
  • We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1. We’re excited to find ways for you to contribute, and will create room for you to learn and grow along the way.

 

Pursue Truth While Finding Yours
At Everlaw, we are deeply invested in pursuing the truth, for our clients and for our employees. We know that when you’re empowered to pursue your passions, it is reflected in the work. That’s why we’re committed to the professional growth of all our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular career check-ins with managers. If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear from you! 
 
We help law firms, government agencies, and corporations sift through millions of documents of evidence in big lawsuits and investigations to find the proverbial smoking gun (or needle in the haystack -- pick your metaphor). It's a multi-billion dollar space typically dominated by service-oriented vendors, and we're coming at it with cutting-edge technology and elegant design. It's working, and we've been growing very rapidly: we host hundreds of terabytes of data and work with all 50 state Attorneys General and hundreds of law firms on some of the most high-profile cases litigated today. 
 
Everlaw is an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We respect the gender, gender identity and gender expression of our applicants and employees, and we honor requests for pronouns. It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity, including the California Equal Pay Act.  Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
 
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