Product Designer – Kansas City (Hybrid)

Responsibilities

• Drive user discovery alongside the Product Manager and engineers, conducting interviews, sketching options, and prototyping the proposed solution before engineering builds it.
• Communicate across multiple levels including Product Managers, engineers, and end users, ensuring design intent is clear at every handoff.
• Establish user-experience standards across all products — interaction patterns, accessibility, and mobile responsiveness — and document them in the design system, maintained in collaboration with the Sr. UI/UX Designer.
• Contribute to the firm’s product design system in collaboration with Sr. UI/UX Designer, including typography, color, iconography, and spacing that scale across all products and extend Littler’s brand foundation into digital surfaces.
• Audit existing products to identify user-experience gaps, partnering with Product Managers to prioritize fixes that improve how attorneys actually use the product.
• Collaborate with marketing for product naming, applying naming conventions and reviewing new products and major features to ensure fit with the firm’s brand and product family.
• Design AI-enabled products so that model-generated content is clear to attorneys: showing sources and citations, signaling uncertainty, and handling wrong-answer and error states, partnering with the firm’s AI department on how AI features present to users.
• Establish user-experience metrics (time-on-task, task completion rate, user satisfaction) and partner with Product Managers to measure whether the design actually worked.
• Champion the attorney experience in every product conversation, grounding every design decision in real attorney usage.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in product design.
• Experience working with a product management organization to drive product discovery, including defining success metrics and KPIs.
• Strong written and verbal communication: ability to explain a design decision with evidence and adjust when the evidence shifts.
• A portfolio that demonstrates shipped work: B2B or enterprise products preferred, ideally in complex domains where users are experts in something other than software.
• Proficiency with Figma or equivalent design tooling.
• Familiarity with design systems: ability to design at the component, pattern, and product level.
• Familiarity with software development tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence) and Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of the legal industry, or experience designing for attorneys, doctors, accountants, or other expert users, is a plus.
• Front-end engineering literacy (HTML, CSS, React) is a plus: not required to ship code, but able to read it.
• Working knowledge of AI-enabled design workflows (e.g. Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Figma AI features) is a plus.
• Familiarity with design patterns for AI-enabled products (presenting sources, confidence, and error states) is a plus.

About Littler

Littler is the largest global employment and labor law practice in the world exclusively devoted to representing management. With more than 1,900 attorneys in over 100 offices worldwide, Littler serves as the single source solution provider to the global employer community. Consistently recognized in the industry as a leading and innovative law practice, Littler has been litigating, mediating and negotiating some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record for over 75 years.

Littler’s unparalleled commitment to labor and employment law helps clients navigate a complex business world with nuanced legal issues—building better solutions for clients’ toughest challenges. With deep experience and resources that are local, everywhere, Littler is fully focused on its clients. With a diverse team of the brightest minds, Littler fosters a culture that celebrates original thinking. And with powerful proprietary technology, Littler disrupts the status quo—delivering bold, groundbreaking innovation that prepares employers not just for what’s happening today, but for what’s likely to happen tomorrow.

Benefits

We offer a generous benefits package to full-time and part-time employees working at least a 50% schedule. Benefits include comprehensive health, dental and vision plans for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children. In addition, we provide a superior 401(k) plan, ample time off programs, mental health programs, family building and caregiving, generous paid parental leave, life insurance, disability insurance, a wellness program, flexible spending accounts, and an employee referral bonus program.

Contact Information

Please note applications are only accepted through our careers page www.littler.com/careers. For inquiries regarding this opportunity, please e-mail Jazmin Vivanco at jvivanco@littler.com with the job title in the subject line.