Senior Product Designer
DISCO · Austin, TX · 3 wk ago
Art & CreativeFull-time
At DISCO, the Senior Product Designer takes a leadership role in elevating our products to the next level. You'll bring clarity to complex product challenges, shape thoughtful end-to-end experiences, and raise the quality bar across multiple product areas. You'll help define AI-empowered experiences that support better user decisions, strengthen trust, and improve the overall product experience.
Responsibilities
- Conduct in-depth user research to understand user needs, pain points, and behaviors, and actively communicate those learnings across the team
- Leverage research insights to inform and validate design decisions, ensuring products truly resonate with users
- Create high-quality wireframes, low-fidelity and high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes that effectively communicate design vision
- Stay on top of the latest industry trends, technologies, and design patterns
- Maintain a high bar for quality, usability, and attention to edge cases
- Provide design leadership and guidance to junior team members to ensure design excellence across projects
- Lead complex design projects from concept to delivery
- Drive a culture of constant improvement and learning within the design team
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to align on design strategy and vision
- Bring structure to ambiguous problems, frame tradeoffs clearly, and champion a user-first approach
- Anticipate how design decisions impact related workflows, teams, and product areas
- Contribute to patterns, shared practices, and design consistency that improve efficiency and coherence across the product
- Partner with cross-functional teams to design AI-empowered workflows and product experiences that help users take action, interpret system output, and stay in control
- Define thoughtful patterns for trust, transparency, and human oversight where intelligent capabilities are introduced
Requirements
- 5-7+ years of experience in product design, with a proven track record of delivering successful user-centered design solutions
- Proficiency in Figma and complementary design tools (prototyping, wireframing, and collaboration platforms)
- Experienced working in a fast-paced, agile environment and collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Deep understanding of design principles, user-centered design methodologies, and information architecture
- Excellent visual design skills, with a keen eye for typography, color, and layout
- Strong ability to communicate and present design concepts, rationale, and tradeoffs to stakeholders and team members
- Able to navigate ambiguity, frame complex workflows, and connect feature-level decisions to broader product and platform patterns
- Familiar with using AI in the design workflow to support ideation, synthesis, prototyping, content generation, and exploration
- Good judgment about when AI can accelerate the design process and when deeper human evaluation, refinement, or validation is needed
- Experience with design systems and the ability to create and maintain design libraries
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role
Nice to Have
- Experience designing for complex, enterprise-level B2B or B2C applications
- Experience designing AI-empowered product experiences or products that incorporate machine learning, intelligent assistance, or advanced automation
- Understanding of trust, transparency, and human-centered interaction patterns in AI-enabled product experiences
- Authorization to work in the U.S. without sponsorship (DISCO is not currently sponsoring visas or accepting visa transfers)
Benefits
- Open, inclusive, and fun environment
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as 401(k)
- Competitive salary plus RSUs
- Flexible PTO
- Opportunity to be part of a company revolutionizing the legal industry
- Growth opportunities throughout the company
DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review, and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers, and governments.