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 desig